Show:
MUHAMMAD
(pbuh)
THEOLOGY
HISTORY
SOCIAL ISSUES
100
Muhammad was born in this place and during this year.
What is Mecca and when is the sixth century CE?
100
In Islam, this is the problem with the human condition.
What is pride?
100
Since Arabic was originally only a spoken language, what were the modes of transmitting tradition?
What is poetry and song?
100
Prior to Muhammad and his egalitarian reforms, these traits characterize the status of women in the pre-Islamic southern Arabian peninsula.
What is property, no inheritance rights, no divorce laws, female infanticide?
200
Muslims believe Muhammad is the last and final prophet of God, giving him the honor of this title:
What is "the seal of the prophets?"
200
This is the Arabic word for "big sin" in Islam. It is to give godlike characteristics to anyone or anything that is not the one true God.
What is shirk?
200
Before the Muslims, these three groups inhabited and worshiped in Mecca:
What are the Christians, Jews, Bedouins?
200
This is the Arabic word for a common head covering prescribed by the Qur'an and still worn by Muslim women across the globe.
What is the hijab?
300
Muhammad sought, first and foremost, to reform these to areas of Meccan life:
What is social and theological reform? (egalitarianism and monotheism)
300
Considering the Arabic language's Semitic origins, "Islam" properly understood means this:
What is "peace which comes by submission to God?"
300
Historically, Muslims have favored one of these more than the other: orthopraxy (right practice) or orthodoxy (right belief).
What is orthopraxy?
300
The creators of this show received death threats from Islamic extremists for artistically portraying Muhammad.
What is South Park?
400
This is the Arabic word for the followers of Muhammad, the Muslim community of faith:
What is the umma(h)?
400
This is the core doctrine of Islam.
What is shahada? Or What is "there is no god but God and Muhammad is his prophet"?
400
This man compiled the loose oral traditions of Muhammad's recitations and was selected as the rightful successor of Muhammad by (now) 85% of Muslims.
Who is Abu Bakr?
400
According to scholars like Reza Aslan, Stpehen Prothero, and Maajib Nawaz, is Islam a religion of violence or peace?
What is neither? (It's a religion. It has peaceful or violent adherents.)
500
After Muhammad's death in 632 CE, the tradition split into these two branches over the matter of Muhammad's rightful successor:
What is (are) Sunni and Shia?
500
These are the five pillars of Muslim faith:
What are shahada, salat, zakat, sawm, and hajj?
500
Pres-Islamic Arabian life is characterized by these four major themes:
What are 1) camel-nomadism 2) preliteracy 3) agrarian economy 4) tribal egalitarianism
500
Contrary to popular belief, Islam spread as a religion in the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries by these two means.
What are proselytization and economic benefits?