Themes
Actors
Key Dates
Key Geography
Terminology
100
The extension of Islam/its growth in quantity and quality. vs. How African groups have created Muslim space/made Islam their own in their societies over time. (Becca & Isaiah)
What is "Islamization" vs. "Africanization"? (Robinson)
100
The Quraysh (Becca & Isaiah)
What is the powerful group that controlled Mecca and began to persecute the Prophet Muhammad?
100
632 (Becca & Isaiah)
What is the year of the Prophet Muhammad's death, and the beginning of the reign of first of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs?
100
Medina (past: Yathrib) (Becca & Isaiah)
Where did the Prophet Muhammad and his followers flee to from Mecca?
100
Umma (Becca & Isaiah)
What is the community of Islam?
200
1. Of the self 2. Preaching 3. Military (Becca & Isaiah)
What are the three forms of jihad?
200
Nana Asma'u (Becca & Isaiah)
Who is a famous and respected *female* Qadiriyya Sufi scholar and teacher?
200
1903 (Becca & Isaiah)
What is the year the British conquered the Sokoto Caliphate?
200
The Hijaz (Becca & Isaiah)
What is the coastal region of the Red Sea and the birthplace of Islam?
200
Dar-al-Islam vs. Dar-al-Kufr (Becca & Isaiah)
What are the land/realm of belief vs. the land/realm of disbelief?
300
Freeing or ransoming of slaves (Becca & Isaiah)
What is a way that slaveowners could show their "true piety"... penance for manslaughter, perjury, etc. could be achieved by freeing or ransoming slaves. In some places the Qur'an charges believers to perform these acts.
300
Uthman dan Fodio (Becca & Isaiah)
Who is the Shehu of the Qadariyya Sufi order and founder of the Sokoto Caliphate?
300
661-750 (Becca & Isaiah)
When did the Umayyad Caliphate rule, based in Damascus?
300
Modern-day Saudi Arabia (Becca & Isaiah)
Where are Mecca and Medina?
300
Islamic jurisprudence (theory/philosophy of law) (Becca & Isaiah)
What is fiqh?
400
Enslavement is legitimate if they are non-believers, illegitimate if they are believers. (Becca & Isaiah)
What is 15th-century Algerian Maliki jurist al-Maghili's argument about legitimate vs. illegitimate slavery?
400
Mansa Musa (Becca & Isaiah)
Who is the emperor of the Mali Emperor, who established the famous center of learning in Timbuktu?
400
1812-1903 (Becca & Isaiah)
When did the Sokoto Caliphate rule in Northern Nigeria?
400
The Maghrib (Becca & Isaiah)
Where is modern-day Morocco?
400
Shahada (Becca & Isaiah)
What is the first Pillar of Islam, a Muslim's profession of faith in the One God and his Prophet?
500
Purpose of wearing an amulet (Becca & Isaiah)
The wearer gains protection from the Qur'anic verse inside their amulet.
500
'Ali (Becca & Isaiah)
Who is the last of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs?
500
1465 (Becca & Isaiah)
When did Sonni Ali conquer Timbuktu and Jenne and deliver Songhay from Malian control?
500
Baghdad (Becca & Isaiah)
Where was the Abbasid Caliphate centered?
500
A West African Islamic religious leader and teacher (Becca & Isaiah)
What is a marabout?
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