Sudan
Recent (Past Century)
Islamic History
Islamic History
Geography
Muslims Contributions to Science
Islamic Sciences
100
What is the capital of Sudan?
Khartoum (الخرطوم)
100
What country, in November of last year, deposed a 53 year dictatorship ending a 14 year old Civil War.
Syria
100
The Strait of ____ separates Morocco from Spain.
Gibraltar
100
The word “algebra” comes from the Arabic al-jabr, found in the title of a book by this Muslim mathematician.
Al-Khwarizmi
100
The study of beliefs and creed in Islam is called:
Aqeedah (Islamic theology)
200
This region of western Sudan has been the center of conflict and a genocide.
Darfur
200
The Camp David Accords (1978) normalized relations between Israel and which Arab country?
Egypt
200
The Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking Muslim people primarily from this region occupied by China.
East Turkestan (Xinjiang according to China)
200
The 10th-century physician known as the “father of early medicine” who wrote The Canon of Medicine.
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
200
The methodology used to derive legal rulings from the Qur’an and Sunnah is called:
Usul al-Fiqh
300
Which Islamic legal school (madhhab) is most followed in Sudan?
Maliki
300
Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Sudan normalized ties with Israel under which set of agreements in 2020?
The Abraham Accords
300
The Umayyad Mosque in this city contains what is believed to be the tomb of a prophet mentioned in the Qur’an.
Damascus, Syria
300
Which muslim found the world's first university was created by in 859 AD in Fez, Morocco
Fatima al-Fihriya
300
What is the highest degree of hadith authenticity
Mutawattir
400
This paramilitary force formed from the Janjaweed militias has committed several war crimes including genocide in different parts of Sudan such as Darfur, South Kordofan, and Khartoum.
RSF (Rapid Support Forces)
400
The Southern portion of this country was occupied by Israel for eighteen years, from 1982 until 2000.
Lebanon
400
What is the most populated Muslim city in the world?
Jakarta, Indonesia
400
Which Muslim scientist accurately described how vision works through light entering the eye, not emanating from it?
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen)
400
Which Islamic scholar was known for “al-Majmūʿ” and “Riyadh as-Salihin,”?
Imam al-Nawawi
500
What ancient Nubian kingdom existed in Sudan before Islam?
The Kingdom of Kush
500
This organization was founded in 1969 after an arson attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque to "safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony."
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
500
What is the southernmost muslim-majority country in the world?
Comoros
500
The 13th-century scholar who accurately measured the Earth’s circumference using geometric methods.
Al-Biruni
500
What scholar is most well-known for opposing the Mu'talizite claim of the "creation of the Qur`ān?"
Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal