Answer the following questions:-
Q1. What were the features of the lives of the Bedouins in the early 7th century?
Q2. What is meant by the term Abbasid revolution?
Q3. What were the effects of the crusades in Europe and Asia?
Q4. When was prophet Muhammad forced to migrate Mecca?
Q5. Who were Kharjis?
Q6. Who was third Khaliph? Why was he assacinated?
Q7. Name the four schools of Islamic law.
Q8. What were the twin objectives of Caliphate ?
Q9. What do you about the battle of Karbala?
Q10. Name any four important literary works of Islamic world.
Answers
Answer:
A1: The word ‘Bedouin’ has been derived from the Arabic word 'Badawiyin', which means ‘a desert dweller’. Accordingly, the nomadic tribes of the desert regions of the Middle East are referred to as Bedouins. Some important features of the lives of the Bedouins are given below.
1. The Bedouins were basically herders moving from one place to another in search of fodder for their camels and food for their own survival.
2. The ancient Bedouins were polytheistic. In other words, they worshiped many gods. There are references to the practice of animism too.
A2: The Abbasid Revolution, also called the Movement of the Men of the Black Raiment, was the overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE), the second of the four major Caliphates in early Islamic history, by the third, the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258 CE).
A4: 622CE
A5: The Kharijites, also called the ash-Shurah, were a sect that appeared in the first century of Islam during the First Fitna, the crisis of leadership after the death of Muhammad.
A6: Uthman Ibn Affan, the third Rashidun caliph, was assassinated at the end of a siege upon his house. Initially a protest, the siege escalated following an apparently wrongly attributed threat as well as the death of a protester. ... Uthman's death had a polarizing effect in the Muslim world at the time.
A7: Sunni Islam is separated into four main schools of jurisprudence, namely, Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, Hanbali. These schools are named after Abu Hanifa, Malik ibn Anas, al-Shafi'i, and Ahmad ibn Hanbal, respectively.