Chapter 10 Quiz

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. The entirety of the Islamic moral and legal code, completed by the mid-900s, is known as the________.

Quran correct incorrect

Sunna correct incorrect

Sharia correct incorrect

Hadith correct incorrect

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. The first signs of a religious orientation within the Arab Empire occurred during the reign of ___________, the third Umayyad ruler.

Muhammad al-Shaybani correct incorrect

Abd al-Malik correct incorrect

Muhammad II correct incorrect

Saladin correct incorrect

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. _______ is the paradigmatic "path" of Muhammad's traditions which, if trodden by believers, will lead to salvation.

Imam correct incorrect

Umma correct incorrect

Jihad correct incorrect

Sunna correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is not one of the five religious duties which identify a Muslim?

Profession of faith correct incorrect

Prayer correct incorrect

Repentance correct incorrect

Fasting correct incorrect

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. _________is a minority faith among Muslims, making up about 10% of the total, although they are in the majority in contemporary Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon.

Sunnism correct incorrect

Shiism correct incorrect

Sufism correct incorrect

Tariqism correct incorrect

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. The traditions and biography of Muhammad were first gathered together ______________ years after his lifetime

20 correct incorrect

200 correct incorrect

1000 correct incorrect

150 correct incorrect

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. The Eastern Roman Empire would ultimately survive under the name of____________.

Constantinople correct incorrect

Istanbul correct incorrect

Byzantium correct incorrect

Sigeion correct incorrect

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. ____________ is defined as the removal of all religious images from churches and monasteries

iconoclasm correct incorrect

aniconism correct incorrect

iconodulism correct incorrect

iconolatry correct incorrect

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. In eighth-century Iran, local Persian military lords and Arab settlers revolted, expecting a "rightly guided" leader or _______to arrive and establish a realm of justice on earth.

Imam correct incorrect

Mahdi correct incorrect

Hadith correct incorrect

Umma correct incorrect

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. European Crusaders returned Nicaea to Byzantium and, in 1099 CE, captured_________.

Aleppo correct incorrect

Jerusalem correct incorrect

Cairo correct incorrect

Baghdad correct incorrect

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. _________ was the Kurdish-descended successor of the Fatimids in Egypt nearly ended the Crusader Kingdom in 1187.

Al-Aziz Tariq correct incorrect

Al-Afdal correct incorrect

Salah al-Din correct incorrect

Al-Malik Hattin correct incorrect

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. Turkish military slaves from the Russian steppes and dominant in the armies of Saladin´s successors, the ____________established their own regime in agriculturally rich Egypt from 1250 to 1517.

Mongols correct incorrect

Ilkhanids correct incorrect

Seljuks correct incorrect

Mamluks correct incorrect

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. After the __________were pushed back to Iraq and Iran and converted to Islam, the Mamluks were able to terminate the Crusader Kingdom in 1291 with the conquest of Acre.

Seljuks correct incorrect

Marinids correct incorrect

Mongols correct incorrect

Fatimids correct incorrect

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. At the top of the Mamluk state was the______, who controlled the annual purchases of slaves and commanded the largest cavalry regiment.

imam correct incorrect

mullah correct incorrect

sultan correct incorrect

raja correct incorrect

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. Pronoia was a Byzantine system of __________, wherein an assignee collected taxes in exchange for military service.

imperium correct incorrect

taillage correct incorrect

tithing correct incorrect

land assignment correct incorrect

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. Scholars surmise that the _____________________set off the spread of the Black Death in the mid-fourteenth century.

Umayyad conquest of Iberia correct incorrect

Mongol invasion of Vietnam correct incorrect

fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks correct incorrect

Muslim invasion of Egypt correct incorrect

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. _________is a mystical and meditative devotion to faith, expressed in the form of prayer, ecstasy, chanting, or dancing.

Ismailism correct incorrect

Alawism correct incorrect

Sufism correct incorrect

Ibadism correct incorrect

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. Why was painting and sculpting absent from the public sphere in the Islamic world?

Because of the influence of Byzantine Iconoclasm. correct incorrect

Due to a lack of interest in the decorative arts in the Arab Empire. correct incorrect

Due to prohibitions found in Islamic law correct incorrect

Because of the influence of Indian traditions which forbade painting and sculpting. correct incorrect

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. The ___________is the best preserved example of an Islamic palace in the world.

Topkapi Palace correct incorrect

Taj Mahal correct incorrect

Hagia Sophia correct incorrect

Alhambra correct incorrect

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. Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd were important Muslim scholars who worked to reconcile ________________ thought with Islam.

Platonic-Aristotelian correct incorrect

Gnostic correct incorrect

Neoplatonic correct incorrect

Confucian correct incorrect

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. Rather than retaking Jerusalem, the Fourth Crusade conquered _______________ in 1204 CE.

Cairo correct incorrect

Constantinople correct incorrect

Baghdad correct incorrect

Damascus correct incorrect

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Which was the last region of North Africa taken by the Arab conquests?

Egypt correct incorrect

Khurasan correct incorrect

The Maghreb correct incorrect

Libya correct incorrect

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Even though the architectural styles of the two cathedrals are different, both are part of which Christian sect?

Coptic Christianity correct incorrect

Western Christianity correct incorrect

Ethiopian Christianity correct incorrect

Eastern Christianity correct incorrect

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The Mamluk cavalry pictured above were key to stopping the Mongols from fully conquering the Middle East. What was the origins of the Mamluks?

They were volunteers from Western Europe. correct incorrect

The were Turkish military slaves correct incorrect

They were Egyptian peasants. correct incorrect

They were Indian mercenaries correct incorrect