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Module 8
Lessons 1, 2, & 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the final book and who is considered the final prophet? (Lesson 1) | The Qur'an and Muhammad are the final book and final prophet. |
| What do Muslims call the Christians and Jews? Why? (Lesson 1) | - They call Christians and Jews "people of the book" because each has a holy book with teachings similar to the Qur'an. - The Shari'a law also requires the Muslim leaders to have religious tolerance for the Christians ad Jews. |
| What are parts of the Islam way of life? (Lesson 1) | Their ideals of courage, loyalty to family, warrior skills would eventually become part of the Islamic way of life. |
| What was the Ka'aba in the holy city of Mecca? (Lesson 1) | They would all visit an ancient shrine in the city called the Ka'aba, which was associated with Abraham, a believer in one God and who would later be considered a prophet by Muslims. |
| How did Muhammad start to believe he was a prophet? (Lesson 1) | - When he was about 40, he believed a voice had called to him while he meditated in a cave outside of Mecca. - After "soul-searching," he believed that the Lord who spoke through Gabriel was Allah. |
| What did Muhammad become convinced of? (Lesson 1) | He became convinced that he was one of the only prophets left, so he began to teach the beliefs, such as the fact that Allah was the only and only God and that worshipping or praying to other gods is unacceptable. |
| What are the Muslim Holy cities? (Lesson 1) | Mecca and Medina |
| What was the Hijrah? (Lesson 1) | He moved to the town of Yathrib, about 200 miles north of Mecca. His migration was known as the Hijrah, which attracted even more followers, and eventually Yathrib was renamed Medina. |
| Who was named the successor? (Lesson 2) | Since Muhammad had not named a successor or instructed his followers on how to pick one, Abu-Bakr was elected, who was a loyal friend of Muhammad. |
| What was one result of Muhammad's death? (Lesson 2) | After Muhammad's death, some tribes on the Arabian Peninsula abandoned Islam. Others refused to pay taxes, and few proclaimed themselves as prophets. |
| What did the Muslims allow people of other religions to do? (Lesson 2) | The Muslims allowed the people who they conquered to practice their own religion, because the Qur'an forbade the conversion of "people of the book," which included Christians and Jews. |
| Who was Ali? (Lesson 2) | Ali, which was Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law seemed natural to choose as the successor to Uthman. However, his right to rule was challenged by Muawiya, who was a governor of Syria. |
| What 2 seas were part of the Muslim Trade Network? (Lesson 2) | The two major seas were the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, and these two seas was where the Muslim Empire could trade with the rest of the world. |
| How sophisticated was the Muslim society? (Lesson 3) | Muslim society had a sophistication matched at that time only by the Tang Empire of China. That cosmopolitan character was most evident in urban centers. |
| What were the classes in Muslim society? (Lesson 3) | The upper class included those who were Muslims at birth. Converts to Islam were in the second class. The third class consisted of the “protected people” and included Christians and Jews.The lowest class was composed of slaves. |
| What was the role of Muslim women? (Lesson 3) | The wife of a poor man would often work in the fields with her husband. Wealthier women supervised the household and its servants. They had access to education, and among them were poets and scholars. Women were also raising the children rich or poor. |
| What was the House of Wisdom? (Lesson 3) | In the early 800s, Caliph al-Ma’mun opened in Baghdad a combination library, academy, and translation center. There, scholars of different cultures and beliefs worked side by side translating texts from Greece, India, Persia, and elsewhere into Arabic. |
| What did Muslim art look like and what were some of the fears? (Lesson 3) | Muslim art is intricate and colorful but often does not contain images of living beings. Muslim leaders feared that people might worship the images rather than Allah. Thus, Muslim artists found different ways to express their creativity. |
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