HumanitiesWeek 6 example #16081
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Why did the Spanish Jews welcome the Muslim invasion?
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The Visigoth rulers had persecuted them.
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Why perhaps were conquered Africans eager to convert to Islam?
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To avoid enslavement.
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Why is the Muslim year shorter than the Christian year?
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The Muslim year is based on lunar cycles.
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The hadith:
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Mohammad's sayings.
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Why does an author use a framing tale?
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To unite different stories.
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Why was Mecca important to the Bedouin traders?
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It had natural springs.
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The reason Mohammad leave Mecca for Medina in 622.
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Mecca's leadership was displeased with him.
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The meaning of the Arabic word "masjid".
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Place of prostration
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In the Qur'an are Muslim women advised to dress modestly:
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To avoid harassment.
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Muhammad and his followers initially thought music would:
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Distract the faithful from their true purpose.
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The reason Islam was able to spread so quickly after Muhammad's death.
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A long war had exhausted the Byzantine and the Persian empires.
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How Mali's Mansa Moussa caused the value of gold in Egypt to fall in 1334.
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He distributed so much gold to the poor.
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Scheherazade in The Thousand and One Nights tells her husband a story each night:
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To prevent execution the next morning.
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The structure inspired the design of most mosques.
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Muhammad's house in Medina.
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The reason the Kaaba significant to the Bedouins.
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It housed images of their gods.
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Why are practitioners of Islam's mystical branch called Sufi (from the Arabic suf)? Note: This is not related to the word sunni.
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They dress in coarse woolen garments.
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The arrangement of the surahs in the Qur'an.
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Longest to shortest
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Mohammad allowed Muslim men to have up to four wives.
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To provide protective charity.
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Muslims believe that the Qur'an cannot be translated...
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It is the direct word of God
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The Kaaba's significance to Muslims today.
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It represents the physical center of the planet and universe.
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A mosque features a qibla...
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To indicate Mecca's direction.
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Muslims decorate their mosques without figurative images.
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Mohammad warned that image makers would face punishment at Judgment.
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In 610 CE did the Archangel Gabriel first visited Mohammad...
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To deliver messages from the one and only God.
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The meaning of Islam.
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Submission