Muslim Traditions

Question 1

Where did Islam originate?

Answer 1

The Arabian peninsula

Question 2

Where are the largest Muslim populations today?

Answer 2

Indonesia, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh

- over 8 hundred million

Question 3

There are approximately___billion Muslims around the world.
___in Canada
___million in the USA

Answer 3

• 1.6
• 600 000 (2001) and 1 million in 2017, as a side note.
• 6-7

Question 4

What are the two major branches of Islam?

Answer 4

Sunni and Shi’a

Question 5

How many Muslims are in China?

Answer 5

80 million

Question 6

What is the difference and similarity between Sunni and Shi’a?

Answer 6

• Both Sunni and Shi’a consider Muhammad as the last prophet in the Abrahamic traditions
• Shia community recognize Ali (Muhammad’s son inlay) and his descendant as the only legitimate successors to the Prophet

Question 7

When was the essential text, the Qur’an, believed to have been revealed by God to Muhammad?

Answer 7

Between the years 610 to 632 CE

Question 8

What is the second most important text in Islam?

Answer 8

the saying of Muhammad, known collectively as the Hadith.

Question 9

The Qur’an characterized pre-Islamic Arabia as the age of___.

Answer 9

jahiliyya

Question 10

What is Jahiliyya?

Answer 10

lack of moral consciousness

• meeans ignorance. Not ignorant in the sense of anything except in that they do not believe in life after death
• they indulged in world goods

Question 11

Did pre-islamic arabia believe in life after death?

Answer 11

no

Question 12

In pre-Islamic arabia, what behaviour was common?

Answer 12

Infanticide, polygamy for the sake of dowry, blood feauds

Question 13

What was Allah in pre-islamic arabia?

Answer 13

They recognized the concept of God as the supreme creator called ‘Allah’ (the God), but worshipped multiple deities.

Question 14

In pre-islamic arabia, what was the ka’ba?

Answer 14

center for worship located in Mecca

Question 15

Who is believed mohave built Ka’ba?

Answer 15

Biblical patriarch Abraham and his son Ishmael.

Question 16

Where is the focal of the annual hajj?

Answer 16

ka’ba

Question 17

Approximately over___millionMuslims visit Ka’ba?

Answer 17

2

Question 18

In what direction do Muslims face when they pray

Answer 18

Ka’ba

Question 19

Where is the centre of pilgrimage?

Answer 19

ka’ba

Question 20

What were the ‘hanif’?

Answer 20

they were individuals who shared ethical values of judaism and christianity. they believed in one god, the god of abraham, but they did not follow either judaic or christian teachings

Question 21

What are ‘Bedouin’

Answer 21

desert people in the arabian society…tribal society…many of them were nomads.

Question 22

When and where was Muhammad born?

Answer 22

Muhammad was born into the Quraysh tribe around 570 CE.

Question 23

How did Muhammad begin his career?

Answer 23

He began his career as a caravan trader, from Mecca to Syria.

Question 24

What happened to Muhammad at some point before his 0s?

Answer 24

He bagan to sucledue himself in a cave on Mount Hira, and to engage in meditation and contemplation over the meaning of human existence in general.

Question 25

True or False: Muhammad was the founder of Islam.

Answer 25

false

Question 26

What was the first revelation

Answer 26

It was a basic message to call the Arab people to worship on god...Abrahamic monotheism.

Question 27

What was Muhammad's role as a messenger?

Answer 27

Muhammad summoned the Arabs into monotheism and to have a belief in the life after death.

Question 28

True or False: Muhammad did not gain followers except for a few among his family and friends.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

Why did the Meccans reject Muhammad's message?

Answer 29

- The Meccans reject Muhammad's message as he brought about economic disadvantage to them; threatening take and pilgrims to Mecca.

Question 30

What forced Muhammad and early Muslims to migrate across the Red Sea to Ethiopia? What happened once they crossed?

Answer 30

- Meccan persecution | - they were received by the King of Abyssinia and were received as "fellow monotheists."

Question 31

What is the "night journey? What is associated with this event?

Answer 31

In times of crisis while in Mecca, Muhammad experienced what came to be known as the "night journey," travelling from Mecca to Jerusalem in the course of a single night. - While is Jerusalem, he ascended to heaven where he met some of the Prophets who had gone before him, and was granted audience with God. - The obligation to perform 5 daily prayers is associated with this event.

Question 32

What happen after constant persecution from Meccans in 622?

Answer 32

Muhammad and his followers migrated to Medina

Question 33

What is Hira?

Answer 33

the migration to Medina

Question 34

When did Muslims create the first Muslim community, Umma

Answer 34

in Media

Question 35

What was the relationship like between Muslims and Jews in Medina?

Answer 35

In Medina, the early Muslim and Jewish communities shared certain rituals such as the fasting of Yom Kippur and the direction of prayer to Jerusalem.

Question 36

What did Muhammad order Muslims to do with Quranic revelations in Medina?

Answer 36

He order Muslim community to perform daily prayer, fasting in the month of Ramadan, pay alms-tax, and perform pilgrimage to Mecca.

Question 37

Explain the conquest of Mecca.

Answer 37

- in 628 Muhammad and around 1400 of his followers arrived in the vicinity of Mecca to perform pilgrimage. - after several negotiations with the Meccans, the city was surrendered this - in return for their peaceful surrender, Muhammad granted general amnesty to all Meccans.

Question 38

When did Muhammad die?

Answer 38

year of 632

Question 39

What is the difference between Sunni and Shi'a in terms of Muhammad's successor?

Answer 39

- the majority of Sunni (those who follow the Suna, i.e., traditions of the Prophet) believed that he did not appoint any successor. - the Shi'a (from the Arabic word 'party') believed that hammed had appointed his cousin and son in law Ali to succeed him.

Question 40

Who became the leader of the slim community after Muhammad's death?

Answer 40

Muhammad's close companion. Abu Bakar

Question 41

What is a caliph?

Answer 41

successor or representative of the prophet

Question 42

What created the Shi'a community?

Answer 42

Some members of the community disagreed with Abu Bakar's appointment, which later manifested into tensions that created the Shi'a community.

Question 43

How many caliphs ruled after Muhammad, from 632-661?

Answer 43

4

Question 44

What happened after 661 with the rule of the Muslim world?

Answer 44

After 661, the Muslim world was ruled by two hereditary dynasties, the Umayyad and Abbasids.