Exam 8: Religion and Identity

What is Sharia?

It is said that Muhammad received his revelations through the angel Gabriel for the ______,the Islamic holy book.

Islam is the only world religion that offers rules by which to govern a ______ as well as a set of spiritual beliefs in its holy book.

Arab countries include Algeria,Egypt,Saudi Arabia,and Iran.

Most Muslims would say that women in Arab cultures are ______.

The Arab country with the highest annual per capita gross domestic product is ______.

The ruling Saudi family gained power in the 1920s by consolidating feudal tribes through an alliance with an ultraconservative brand of Islam known as ______.

According to a 2011 survey,68% of individuals surveyed from Muslim-majority countries viewed Westerners as ______.

In the Islamic religion,there are no priests.

The ______ system relies far less on physical evidence than on an accused's statements and answers to questions posed by judges.

The Qur'an is considered to contain the verbatim words of Allah.

Discuss why Saudi Arabia is considered the most conservative Islamic country in the world.

In Saudi Arabia,practice of ______ provides any citizen access to the king and local governors.

Islam is a nonhierarchical religion.

Arabs were the ethnic group that originally spread Islam.

______ is the more conservative stream of Buddhism.

Islam only respects a small number of types of work and considers many other non-worthy.

Muslims consider Muhammad the last and greatest ______.

The Arab worldview is derived from Islam.

Describe the practice of Islam in Saudi Arabia.