Majority Muslim nation which recently over threw its dictator.
What is Egypt?
100
Editor for Newsweek International, has a show on CNN.
Who is Fareed Zakaria?
100
Another name for the novel The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.
What is Arabian Nights?
200
Month of fasting in Islam.
What is Ramadan?
200
Muslim nation that was formed due to a conflict between Hindus and Muslims
What is Pakistan?
200
Location, revered by Muslims, Jews, and Christians, involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
What is Jerusalem?
200
Sufi order associated with Rumi.
What is Mevlevi?
200
Khaled Hosseini's first novel and set after the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy
What is The Kite Runner
300
The Prophet Muhammad's ascension to heaven.
What is the miraj?
300
First caliph
Who is Abu Bakr?
300
Largest ethnic group in the world without their own state.
Who are the Kurdish people?
300
Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī is the father of this type of mathematics, in approximately the year 830 he published a book on it.
What is Algebra?
300
Salman Rushdie's most controversial book.
What is The Satanic Verses?
400
After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, two Muslim groups or denominations emerged
Who are Sunnis and Shi'ites?
400
In the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, this person took the place of Shah Pahlavi.
Who is Ayatollah Khomeini
400
The first Muslim Congressman in America.
Who is Keith Ellison?
400
Hunayn ibn Ishaq described this type of surgery in the 800s.
What is cataract surgery?
400
developed by the pre-Islamic Arabs as a poem that consists of an elaborately structured ode; currently serves as an instrument of praise to God and eulogies of Muhammad.
What is the Qasidah
500
Muslims pray 5 times a day. The first prayer is called
What is Fajr?
500
migration from Mecca to Medina that represents the first year on the Muslim calendar
What is Hijra
500
historical landmark that is to be demolished where Muhammad recieved Koranic revelations
What is Jabal al-Nour?
500
Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 for his work on the femtosecond.
Who is Ahmed Zewail?
500
The first fictional Arabic novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, a story of a boy stranded on an island, inspired which English novel. (hint it is by Daniel Defoe).