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Islam is a monotheistic religion founded in the 7th century by the prophet Muhammad in what is now Saudi Arabia. It is the second largest religion in the world, with over 1.8 billion followers worldwide. The central text of Islam is the Quran, which Muslims believe is a revelation from God and serves as the basis for Islamic beliefs and practices.
Islam places great emphasis on submission to the will of God, known as Allah in Arabic, and the importance of good deeds, such as charity and compassion. Muslims observe the Five Pillars of Islam, which include the declaration of faith, prayer, fasting, charity, and pilgrimage to Mecca. Islamic holidays such as Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr are also significant events in the Muslim calendar and are celebrated with prayer, feasting, and gift-giving.
Islam has a rich cultural and historical heritage and has had a significant impact on the world, particularly in the fields of science, literature, architecture, and mathematics. Despite challenges and misconceptions, Islam continues to play a major role in the lives of millions of people and remains a vibrant and dynamic force in the world today.
1. Marjane Satrapi tells her story of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution in what acclaimed series of graphic novels, which is named after an ancient Iranian city?
Answer: Persepolis
2. Shahadah, Salat, Zakat, Sawm, and Hajj are the "Five Pillars" of what religion that traces its descent through the ancestors of Ishmael?
Answer: Islam
3. Hari Raya Puasa is the more common name in Singapore for what Islamic holiday with an original name meaning "Feast of Breaking the Fast"?
Answer: Eid al-Fitr
4. The city of Dearborn, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, is home to the country's largest community per capita who follow what religion?
Answer: Islam
5. The Cape Malay ethnic group in South Africa is typically associated with what religion?
Answer: Islam
6. What word refers to the Islamic concept of immutable law derived from the will of Allah? It is contrasted with human scholarly interpretations of the law, known as Fiqh.
Answer: Sharia
7. According to Islamic legend, what kind of vocation—which demands a lot of wandering—was held by Kaldi, who discovered the coffee plant in Ethiopia in the 9th century?
Answer: Goatherd
8. Christianity and Islam each have more than one billion followers. So does one other world religion. What is it?
Answer: Hinduism
9. Arch-Smurfnemesis Gargamel has a pretty frisky cat that shares what A-word name with the angel of death in Islam?
Answer: Azrael
10. Tuvalu is one of only two countries whose common English names contain three consecutive letters of the alphabet. Which Islamic country is the other?
Answer: Afghanistan
11. What variant of Sunni Islam makes up a near-majority of Saudi Arabians, and can rarely be found outside the country?
Answer: Wahhabism
12. What is the term for a tax paid by non-Muslims living in a Muslim State, as a result of them being exempt from military service and taxes imposed on Muslims?
Answer: Jizyah
13. About 13% of Muslims around the world live in what country, which is by far the largest Muslim-majority nation in the world?
Answer: Indonesia
14. The Great Mosque of Djenne in Mali is one of the world's largest structures built from what material, which was also used to build the medieval university of Timbuktu?
Answer: Adobe (Mud brick)
15. In 1972, the Moro National Liberation Front was formed by Islamic separatists in what Asian and primarily Catholic country?
Answer: The Philippines
16. What was the better known name of United Islamic National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan, the coalition that led a war against the Taliban from 1992 to 2001, eventually prevailing after the support of the American invasion of Afghanistan?
sAnswer: Northern Alliance
17. In 1933, Choudhry Rahmat Ali published the pamphlet “Now or Never” in which he advocated for the creation of a new nation protecting 30 million Muslims living in Northwest British India. Ali took letters from the five northern units to name what Islamic republic that ultimately declared its independence in 1947?
Answer: Pakistan
18. Al-Andalus is the term for the former Islamic states in which European peninsula?
Answer: Iberian
19. All Mughal emperors were practitioners of what religion? The empire's peak is often considered the 17th and 18th century when it ruled over nearly all of the Indian subcontinent.
Answer: Islam
20. In what city did the first coffeehouse, called Kiva Han, open in 1475? Not that much later, in the early 1500s, Islamic leaders banned coffee houses, as places of potential resistance to the government.
Answer: Constantinople
21. Lasting from 2006 until 2009, the War in Somalia ignited with what African nation’s troops invading Somalia to attack the Islamic Courts Union in December 2006?
Answer: Ethiopia
22. The Army of Glory (Jaysh al-Izza) is a Sunni Islamist rebel group fighting in what country's civil war, starting in 2013?
Answer: Syria
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