Mid-term exam and activity 9

Question 1

When did the prophet Muhammad die?

Answer 1

632 CE

Question 2

What is the term that refers to those who rules immediately after the death of Muhammad and were also his contemporaries?

Answer 2

rashidun

Question 3

What is the most extended theological school in North Africa?

Answer 3

Maliki

Question 4

This word literally means “the learned ones” and it refers to a class of religious leaders:

Answer 4

ulama

Question 5

Where was Muhammad’s tribe from?

Answer 5

Mecca

Question 6

Who were the first four caliphs?

Answer 6

Ali Akbar, Umar, Uthman and Ali

Question 7

What’s the Arabic term to refer to the community of Muslims?

Answer 7

umma

Question 8

What is the most extended theological school in Saudi Arabia?

Answer 8

Hanbali

Question 9

According to the majority Shi’is, there are how many Imams after the death of Muhammad?

Answer 9

12

Question 10

What does the period between 1954 and 1967 refer to?

Answer 10

the Arab Cold War

Question 11

Muhammad Bouazizi was demonstrating against…

Answer 11

Police corruption

Question 12

Who was the chief architect of the alliance between the Zionist movement and the Brits?

Answer 12

Chaim Weizmann

Question 13

From what Jewish paramilitary group does the IDF come from?

Answer 13

The Haganah

Question 14

In what year did the UN partition plan pass the map of the “two serpents”?

Answer 14

1947

Question 15

According to Shi’is, who should have been the first caliph after Muhammad?

Answer 15

Ali

Question 16

Which is not one of the major four madhab or traditions of Islamic jurisprudence?

Surfism, Hanbail, Maliki, Shafi’i

Answer 16

Sufism

Question 17

The Hezbollah in Lebanon are best described as…

Answer 17

Twelver Shi’a

Question 18

Which branch of Islam is the religious majority of Iran?

Answer 18

Twelver Shiism

Question 19

What language does Iran speak?

Answer 19

Farsi’

Question 20

Where did the Arab Spring start?

Answer 20

Tunisia

Question 21

Marc Lynch coined the Arab Spring and “spring” refers to…

Answer 21

The Springtime of Nations in Europe 1848

Question 22

Where was Ben Ali from?

Answer 22

Tunisia

Question 23

When did the Arab uprising begin?

Answer 23

17th of December 2010

Question 24

What country is the only one who has been able to remain a democracy (until recently) after the Arab Spring?

Answer 24

Tunisia

Question 25

What is the name of the Egyptian president that was brought down by the Arab Spring?

Answer 25

Hosni Mubarak

Question 26

What is the first step to democratization in a authoritarian regime?

Answer 26

Coalition of opposition parties

Question 27

What started the constitutional crisis in Tunisia?

Answer 27

CNA members pledged to only spend one year writing the constitution

Question 28

When was the constitution finalized in Tunisia?

Answer 28

27th of January 2014

Question 29

Which political leader convinced the CNA in Tunisia to implement the "one voice"?

Answer 29

Mustapha Ben Jaafar

Question 30

Who were the two dictator in Tunisia before the Arab Spring?

Answer 30

Habib Bourguiba and Ben Ali

Question 31

When was the fall of Ben Ali?

Answer 31

January 14th 2011

Question 32

Which two concepts were developed by Sayyid Qutb?

Answer 32

Jahiliyya and Hakimiyya

Question 33

Which two groups were the main target of persecution in the beginning of the Sadat Era?

Answer 33

Nasserists and Socialists

Question 34

Which new principle was applied by Jihasidst groups after the expansion of the Islamic movement?

Answer 34

Takfir

Question 35

When was the GCC founded?

Answer 35

1981

Question 36

Which are the six member states that composed the GCC?

Answer 36

Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates

Question 37

Why was the GCC created?

Answer 37

To confront the Iran revolution and the Iran-Iraq war

Question 38

Which are the most influential members of the GCC?

Answer 38

Saudi Arabia and UAE

Question 39

What was the most significant effects of the new media environment during the Arab Uprising?

Answer 39

Shattered the ability of authoritarian regimes to control the flow of ideas and enforce public conformity

Question 40

What technological advancements played a pivotal role in initiating the transformation that led to the Arab uprising?

Answer 40

Satellite television, the internet and cheap mobile phones

Question 41

What event played a crucial role in bringing the Arab Cold War to a symbolic close?

Answer 41

The unification of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic (UAR)

Question 42

What is meant with the term "the dispossessed"?

Answer 42

Men who have been marginalized and excluded from the shah's modernization program concentrated in the large cities

Question 43

What is meant with the term "Waithood"?

Answer 43

A period between adolescence and adulthood

Question 44

In which period was Hashemi Rafsanjani's presidency?

Answer 44

1989-1997

Question 45

What does the term **Moafaq** mean?

Answer 45

successful