A test

[Farnan]

Ok, I want to test TWC. Here are the rules: no searching for the answers you must answer from the top of your head and no scrolling down to look at other people's answers. If you cheat than on a survey-type test that is not graded and you don't gain anything from getting the answers right than you got a problem.

The questions:

1) What is the difference between a Shi'ite and a Sunni?

2) Is Osama bin Laden Sunni or Shi'ite?

3) Is Ahmindenajad Sunni or Shi'ite?

4) Which group is the most popular in the Muslim world?

5) In 1000 AD was Sunnism or Shiaism more popular in what is now Iran?

6) Before they started praying towards Mecca, what city did Muslims pray towards?

7) What does Qu'ran mean in Arabic?

8) Who was the fourth Caliph according to Sunni Islam? Who was the first Imam according to Shia Islam?

9) What religions are recognised in Egypt?

10) What branch of Islam do the majority of Assyrian's follow?

[tnick777]

The questions:

1) What is the difference between a Shi'ite and a Sunni?
Shi'ite and Sunni are different religions both claiming they have claim.
2) Is Osama bin Laden Sunni or Shi'ite?
Sunni?
3) Is Ahmindenajad Sunni or Shi'ite?
Shi'ite?
4) Which group is the most popular in the Muslim world?
Sunni
5) In 1000 AD was Sunnism or Shiaism more popular in what is now Iran?
Shiaism
6) Before they started praying towards Mecca, what city did Muslims pray towards?
Bagdad
7) What does Qu'ran mean in Arabic?
Law
8) Who was the fourth Caliph according to Sunni Islam? Who was the first Imam according to Shia Islam?
Muhammad Al Ghabar, Muhammad
9) What religions are recognised in Egypt?
All
10) What branch of Islam do the majority of Assyrian's follow?
Sunni

[LoZz]

The questions:

1) What is the difference between a Shi'ite and a Sunni?
Shi'ite and Sunni are different religions both claiming they have claim.

their not different religions, both are muslim.

its more like the diffrences between catholic and prodistant

[Sher Khan]

1) What is the religion of a majority of Kurds?

Shafi Sunni Muslims, but pretty liberal at times and with a few cultural values and cultural beliefs mixed in with some Sufism.

2) Who are the Druze?

A sort of unitary sect and offshoot of Islam that really got going around the 1020s or so. They bought into the rumors that al-Hakim was divine and a reincarnation of God and called themselves the 'followers of monotheism' or something like that. I forget their proper Arabic name they give themselves, but everyone calles them the durazi - I think after one of their more prominant leaders?

They mix in a lot of gnosticism and Greek philosophy with Islam and have stayed mostly secluded in the safety of the Lebanese mountains for centuries.


3) Which group first advocated an eternal war against non-Muslims and that non-Muslims and any Muslim that sins deserved to be killed?

I'm not able to answer that specifically, sorry.

4) What are the five pillars of Islam?

Based on a saying of Muhammad, they detail five things that Islam supposedly rests with stability on. They are fasting, pilgrimage, almsgiving, prayer, and the proclamation of belief in Muhammad and monotheism.

5) What is Sufism?

A mystical sect of Islam that deals with everything the strict, law making side of Islam doesn't deal with - spirituality. It concerns itself more with the soul and its relationship with God and the universe than codified dogma. Gaining popularity and prominance after the 900s, it's been both accepted as harmless and pious and sometimes seen as blasphemous.

[Farnan]

I'll provide the answers after the first 10 posters attempt.

[scottishranger]

Ok, I want to test TWC. Here are the rules: no searching for the answers you must answer from the top of your head and no scrolling down to look at other people's answers. If you cheat than on a survey-type test that is not graded and you don't gain anything from getting the answers right than you got a problem.

The questions:

1) What is the difference between a Shi'ite and a Sunni?

2) Is Osama bin Laden Sunni or Shi'ite?

3) Is Ahmindenajad Sunni or Shi'ite?

4) Which group is the most popular in the Muslim world?

5) In 1000 AD was Sunnism or Shiaism more popular in what is now Iran?

6) Before they started praying towards Mecca, what city did Muslims pray towards?

7) What does Qu'ran mean in Arabic?

8) Who was the fourth Caliph according to Sunni Islam? Who was the first Imam according to Shia Islam?

9) What religions are recognised in Egypt?

10) What branch of Islam do the majority of Assyrian's follow?

1. Sunni's believe any islamic scholar trained in Sharia(Islamic Law) can be a caliph. Shia' believe the caliph's must be descended from Muhammad to be a caliph.

2. Shiite

3. Shiite

4. Sunni

5. Sunni? ( I know that Iran is now a Shiite controlled State, do not know back then though...)

6. Would it be Medina? (1st choice) Or Jerusalem (2nd choice)?

7. no idea, perhaps holy book?

8.

a. Ali
b. no idea

9. Sunni Islam, Coptic Orthodox, Christainity in general?

10. Sufi? or Shia' I have forgotten.

[therussian]

Ok, I want to test TWC. Here are the rules: no searching for the answers you must answer from the top of your head and no scrolling down to look at other people's answers. If you cheat than on a survey-type test that is not graded and you don't gain anything from getting the answers right than you got a problem.

The questions:

1) What is the difference between a Shi'ite and a Sunni?
2) Is Osama bin Laden Sunni or Shi'ite?
3) Is Ahmindenajad Sunni or Shi'ite?
4) Which group is the most popular in the Muslim world?
5) In 1000 AD was Sunnism or Shiaism more popular in what is now Iran?
6) Before they started praying towards Mecca, what city did Muslims pray towards?
7) What does Qu'ran mean in Arabic?
8) Who was the fourth Caliph according to Sunni Islam? Who was the first Imam according to Shia Islam?
9) What religions are recognised in Egypt?
10) What branch of Islam do the majority of Assyrian's follow?

1) Something about the clerical system. Sunnis believe that anyone can be a cleric (or caliph or something I don't remember). Shiites believe he must be a descendent of Muhhamad.
2) Sunni
3) Shiite
4) Sunni
5) Sunnism
6) Medina? Or was it Damascus? Baghdad? I don't remember. One of those three I think.
7) Holy Word, or word of God I think
8) Wow, you lost me there
9) What do you mean by recognised? By the State? I guess only Islam but....there are a lot of Coptics.
10) Trick question? I don't know, I'll say Sunni.

[Cassy]

Questions

1) One believes that the sons of Muhammed should rule, the other the spiritual leaders. I think it is the shi'ites that believe the spiritual leaders should rule.

2) Sunni

3) Shia

4) Sunni

5) Shia

6) I have no idea. Medina?

7) Pass

8) Pass

9) Don't know, but I would guess all

10) No idea, Shia, I would guess

[Cúchulainn]

1. Sunni's believe the was no succesor to muhammad and elected caliphs.

2.Sunni, but a religious break off maybe.

3.Shia?

4.Sunni

5.Shiaism

6.Baghdad

7.to read or to recite I think

8.Alī ibn Abī Tālib (I went to wiki, as I couldn't spell his name)

9.Islam and christanity

10.Shia

[Erich von Manstein]

Yay! I knew taking 4 years of Islamic studies courses would come in handy someday.

1) Shi'as believe that 'Ali is the heir to Muhammad, Sunnis do not. More specifically, Shi'as believe in the 12 Imams, 11 of whom have lived and died. The 12th Imam is comparable to the Second Coming of Christ in Christianity.

2) Sunni

3) Shi'a

4) By "popular" I assume you mean "populace," in which case Sunni, as it has the most adherents.

5) Sunni, I believe.

6) Medina

7) To recite.

8) The 'Ali I mentioned above.

9) Islam and definitely Coptic Christianity, possibly all.

10) Shi'a

[Denny Crane!]

Ok, I want to test TWC. Here are the rules: no searching for the answers you must answer from the top of your head and no scrolling down to look at other people's answers. If you cheat than on a survey-type test that is not graded and you don't gain anything from getting the answers right than you got a problem.

The questions:

1) What is the difference between a Shi'ite and a Sunni?

There are cultural differences and slight differences in prayer but the main schism is Sunni's believe there can be no successor to Mohammed but the Shiites believe that all successors should come from his line, that is sons of Ali the last caliph successor.

I was just reading about that in the Times on tuesday as it happens.

2) Is Osama bin Laden Sunni or Shi'ite?

You mean you think he is a muslim?

He is a sunni though more specifically devoted to islamism and what I identify as wahabbi Islam.

3) Is Ahmindenajad Sunni or Shi'ite?

Ask me one on sport I am good at sport.

4) Which group is the most popular in the Muslim world?

Sunni

5) In 1000 AD was Sunnism or Shiaism more popular in what is now Iran?

How would anyone know that without googling it? Iranian history isn't my strong point

6) Before they started praying towards Mecca, what city did Muslims pray towards?

Trick question?

7) What does Qu'ran mean in Arabic?

Recitation

8) Who was the fourth Caliph according to Sunni Islam? Who was the first Imam according to Shia Islam?

Again a google only answer unless your a muslim

9) What religions are recognised in Egypt?

Islam, christianity and judaism

10) What branch of Islam do the majority of Assyrian's follow?

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Pass.

Peter

[scottishranger]

Again a google only answer unless your a muslim

I actually knew this... Thank god for Social Studies

[Denny Crane!]

I actually knew this... Thank god for Social Studies

Your lucky there is no flaming allowed on this board











Peter

[vizi]

Your lucky there is no flaming allowed on this board











Peter

Huh? Flaming isn't allowed on this forum? Since when?

[Big War Bird]

6. Jerusalem

8. Ali and Ali

10. Wild guess but is it Sufism?

[Hells Bells]

Ok, I want to test TWC. Here are the rules: no searching for the answers you must answer from the top of your head and no scrolling down to look at other people's answers. If you cheat than on a survey-type test that is not graded and you don't gain anything from getting the answers right than you got a problem.

The questions:

1) What is the difference between a Shi'ite and a Sunni?

2) Is Osama bin Laden Sunni or Shi'ite?

3) Is Ahmindenajad Sunni or Shi'ite?

4) Which group is the most popular in the Muslim world?

5) In 1000 AD was Sunnism or Shiaism more popular in what is now Iran?

6) Before they started praying towards Mecca, what city did Muslims pray towards?

7) What does Qu'ran mean in Arabic?

8) Who was the fourth Caliph according to Sunni Islam? Who was the first Imam according to Shia Islam?

9) What religions are recognised in Egypt?

10) What branch of Islam do the majority of Assyrian's follow?

1. different sects of islam, both claiming the other is heretical
2. sunni, exiled from saudi arabia
3. shiite, from iran
4. dont know moslem rock bands, sic kidding, sunnis
5. sunni
6. Jerusalem
7. appolo's mouth
8. Osama bin laffin, mohammed alibaba
9. sunnism, coptic christianity, shiaism.
10. kurdishism

I actually knew this... Thank god for Social Studies

you liar! nobody learns anything in social studies they didnt already know!

[Kscott]

The questions:

1) What is the difference between a Shi'ite and a Sunni?

Sunni follow the political successors of Muhammed, Shi'ite follow his actual descendants.(in terms of who should be Caliph.) Over time the two opposing sects have developed differing traditions and cultures.

2) Is Osama bin Laden Sunni or Shi'ite?

Sunni

3) Is Ahmindenajad Sunni or Shi'ite?

Shi'ite

4) Which group is the most popular in the Muslim world?

Sunni

5) In 1000 AD was Sunnism or Shiaism more popular in what is now Iran?

I believe Sunni until the Turks adopted Shiaism. Which would make the answer Sunni.

6) Before they started praying towards Mecca, what city did Muslims pray towards?

No clue, but id hazard a guess, Medina?

7) What does Qu'ran mean in Arabic?

I dunno, the Way?

8) Who was the fourth Caliph according to Sunni Islam? Who was the first Imam according to Shia Islam?

9) What religions are recognised in Egypt?

Sunni, Shi'ite, and Coptics?

10) What branch of Islam do the majority of Assyrian's follow?

Sunni?

I'm not exactly the most knowledgeable on Islam, but I do know most of the general things.

[Sher Khan]

Ok, I want to test TWC. Here are the rules: no searching for the answers you must answer from the top of your head and no scrolling down to look at other people's answers. If you cheat than on a survey-type test that is not graded and you don't gain anything from getting the answers right than you got a problem.

The questions:

Excellent topic.

1) Many things, depending on who you ask this question to. Shi'ites, a shorter term for 'the Party of Ali', are based off the supporters of Ali ibn Abu Talib, Muhammad's cousin and husband to his daughter Fatima. They believed the position of successor, the Caliph, could only be held by blood descendants of Muhammad, whereas other Arab tribes wanted to convene and elect the Caliph from among their own regardless of bloodlinks with Muhammad.

Theologically, the two 'branches' did not differ at the start, but later grew apart much like Catholic and Orthodox. The Sunnis base the majority of their hadith traditions on Muhammad and the first four Caliphs while the Shi'a base their hadith traditions on Muhammad and anyone who is descendant of Muhammad - namely Ali's and Fatima's bloodline. They also reject many of the sources of hadith accepted by Sunnis such as a few of the prophet's companions (and later caliphs).

By the 1600s, Shi'ites had been divided into many sects. The Fatimids moved on Egypt and set up a slightly liberal version of Shi'ite Islam, and the radicals from Iran and Iraq were pushed out into Syria to become the Ismaili sects (there are several).

However, after Saladin's religious persecutions, only Ismailis and a couple of moderates in the Maghreb remained. The Ottomans proceeded to pursue the dominance of Sunni Islam and crushed it everywhere but in some areas of Syria and in Safavid Persia.

In Persia, Shi'ite Islam developed in defense against Sunni Ottoman influences and absorbed many cultural aspects of Persia as a side-effect of the Persian's refusal to be under Turkish rule.

Currently, the most populous sect of Shi'a Islam is the Twelver sect based in Iran. The other sects are minorities living in various concentrated places in Lebanon and Turkey, plus a few other areas.

2) Sunni Islam, under the Wahhabi sect of the Hanbali school of law.

3) He's just a politician who is probably a practicing (publicly at least) Shi'ite.

4) Sunni Islam is currently more populous.

5) Sunni Islam.

6) Jerusalem. Nearly everyone in Europe, Africa, and the Mid East did the same. (Praying East as it were).

7) 'Recite' or 'The Recitation'

8) Ali ibn Abu Talib was the fourth caliph. 12ver Shi'ites believe Ali to also be the first Imam, also other views in history have held Adam to be the first Imam.

9) Don't know, haven't been to Egypt personally. Sunni Islam, Shi'ite Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Coptic Christianity, and perhaps many more.

10) Syrians have adopted Shi'ite Islam I believe.

[jankren]

1) What is the difference between a Shi'ite and a Sunni?
Shiah believes Islam should be based on blood-line by appointing Ali as Muhammad successor while Sunni prefers 'democratic' Islam by appointing the democratically elected Abu Bakr.

2) Is Osama bin Laden Sunni or Shi'ite?
Sunni

3) Is Ahmindenajad Sunni or Shi'ite?
Shiah

4) Which group is the most popular in the Muslim world?
Sunnism

5) In 1000 AD was Sunnism or Shiaism more popular in what is now Iran?
According to Europa Universalis II, Sunnism was the majority at that time.

6) Before they started praying towards Mecca, what city did Muslims pray towards?
Jerusalem. By the way, until today I still view Jerusalem as the focal point.

7) What does Qu'ran mean in Arabic?
Recitation

8) Who was the fourth Caliph according to Sunni Islam? Who was the first Imam according to Shia Islam?
First Calip was Abu Bakr and first Imam was Hussein.

9) What religions are recognised in Egypt?
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

10) What branch of Islam do the majority of Assyrian's follow?
Sunnism

[SickBoy13]

I always get the two mixed up, which will probably end up insulting many people. Therefore, I abstain from answering. Except that Egypt is home to another Oriental Orthodox Church, another people, branded as heretics for not being able to send a representative to the Chalcedon council.