Exam 13: Islam

Malise Ruthven argues that Muhammad improved the status of women in his day.

________ means to strive or to struggle, and it refers to the inner struggle of a good Muslim to become a better person or to serve the Muslim community.

At age forty Muhammad retreated to a cave near ________ to pray and meditate on the one true God.

The ________ is the essential Declaration of Faith for all Muslims.

Muhammad believed that Christians and Jews had betrayed, straying from God's original message.

"Jihad" is not associated with the words "holy war" anywhere in the Quran.

Who was Muhammad's first wife?

________ is a form of Islam that seeks powerful personal experiences of God.

For Muslims, Allah's final word to humankind is preserved in the Muslim holy scriptures, the Quran.

Shi'a Muslims believe that the divine authority of Muhammad was passed to his legitimate hereditary successors, beginning with Ali.

Muslims consider the Quran to be God's words dictated directly to Muhammad.

A Muslim leader called a ________ religious, political, and military authority.

Al-Ghazali came to believe that the kind of reasoning favored by the philosophers cannot provide the wisdom that mystical experience can.

Some scholars claim that there were from the beginning several variant readings of the Quran.

Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was a woman mystic in the Sunni tradition and a beloved saint in Islam.

Pious Muslims pray four times a day at specific times: at dawn, noon, sundown, and evening.

The Muslim philosopher Ibn Sina developed a systematic and comprehensive logic-that is, a view of the fundamental nature of reality.

What do Muslims call Jews and Christians?

Called ________, able-bodied Muslims fast in the daytime during Ramadan, abstaining from food, drink, smoking, and sex. It is a time of reflection on Allah and religious obligations.

Islam is the world's second largest religion.