Guided Reading for The Western Traditions.

Find the answer to each of these questions as it is given in the textbook before moving on to the next question. Some answers, drawn from the textbook alone, will be rather simplistic. They can, and should, be elaborated upon as your knowledge of the subject grows.

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The symbol (*) after a question indicates that these might be used for longer essays in your quizzes.

     

  1. After what time are there mosques in the main inland cities of China?

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  2. When and where did the Naqshbandi Sufis attempt to establish an independent Muslim state in China?

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  3. By what time was most of India under Muslim rule?

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  4. What happened in India for the first time in the geographical spread of Islam?

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  5. When and in response to what did many well-known Islamic religious scholars migrate to India?

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  6. What is Urdu?

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  7. Who was Kabir?

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  8. By what time did the British rule all of India?

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  9. Where are the largest Muslim populations in the world? (*)

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  10. How is it probable that Islam was carried into Southeast Asia?

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  11. What ended the rise and fall of small Muslim kingdoms in Southeast Asia? What effect did this have?

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  12. What proportion of the world population of Muslims live in Southeast Asia?

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  13. What will happen at "the head of every hundred years," according to hadith?

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  14. What was one external impetus for Islamic reform?

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  15. What did the crusaders take home with them that was also left in Muslim lands?

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  16. What was the Wahhabi movement? What did it preach?

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  17. Where in particular did Sufi Shaykhs spearhead a long struggle against colonialism?

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  18. Where and when did the Mahdiyah movement establish an Islamic state?

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  19. Who landed in Egypt in 1798?

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  20. Of what did the 19th century Islamic reformer Jamal al Din al-Afghani cherish an ideal vision?

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  21. What was the conclusion of Afghani’s argument concerning the irrationality of Christianity?

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  22. Who implemented educational reforms as the Grand Mufti of Egypt at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century?

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  23. What was the situation of the Muslim community on the Indian subcontinent before British rule?

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  24. What was the "Anglo-Muhammadan Law?"

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  25. What was the relation of revelation and nature for Ahmad Khan?

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  26. Who was the greatest Muslim thinker of modern India?

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  27. What was the express aim of Kemal Ataturk after 1924 in Turkey?

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  28. What is the significance of the adoption of broad-brimmed hats in an Islamic community?

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  29. For what did Rashid Rida argue in his 1924 treatise on the Supreme Caliphate? In which ideological framework did this later figure?

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  30. What was the aim of the Muslim Brothers founded in 1928 by Hasan al-Bana?

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  31. Who were Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and Hosni Mubarak?

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  32. What do most contemporary Islamic revivalist movements reject as decadent Western values and practices?

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  33. What happened in the Sudan in 1969? What were its results?

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  34. Upon what did Ruhollah Khomeini and his fellows build the Iranian Islamic Republic?

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  35. What is the meaning of the title "ayat Allah" (="ayatollah"), what is his role?

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  36. What is said to be anticipated in the early decades of the 21st century regarding the population of France?

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  37. What do many hope will promote a spirit of mutual respect and acceptance in an increasingly pluralistic world?

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  38. What was true of the majority of people kidnapped from the coast of Senegal, Niger, and the Sudan as slaves?

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  39. Who were Elijah Poole and Wallace D. Fard? (*)

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  40. Why do African-American Muslims sometimes refer to themselves as Bilalians?

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  41. Who can be thought of as the first Muslim missionary in America?

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  42. When was the first masjid (mosque) built in the US?

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  43. What was the status of women in Arab society before Islam? (*)

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  44. What significant restrictions does the Qur’an place upon polygyny (that is, having multiple wives)?

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  45. What does the Qur’an stipulate regarding women’s property?

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  46. What does the Qur’an say about the hijab, or veiling of women?

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  47. What have many hoped might allow for better relations between Western and Muslim worlds?

 

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