Which of the following statements concerning the Sufi movement within Islam is most accurate?
a. Sufism was a rationalistic movement based on the teachings of Ibn Khaldun.
b. The Sufi questioned the Islamic interest in the Greek traditions in science.
c. The Sufi movement incorporated mysticism with a trend toward evangelism.
d. The Sufi movement stressed withdrawal from life and into monastic communities.
e. The Sufi movement stressed an increasingly restrictive conservatism within Islam.
Answer: C
Learn More :
AP World History Chapter 7
- Contacts between Hindus and Muslims led to
- All of these Indian groups were attracted to Islam and converted EXCEPT:
- The Abbasid reign ended when
- The Sufis
- During the Abbasid caliphate, the language associated with administration and scholarship was
- The greatest beneficiaries of the sustained urban prosperity during the rule of the Abbasids were
- The Seljuks
- During the Abbasid period, the use of slaves
- During the Abbasid period, women
- The decline of the Abbasid power was due to all of these reasons EXCEPT:
- The commander of the first Islamic incursion into the Sind in 711 was
- What was the regional splinter dynasty that captured Baghdad in 945?
- What was the religious affiliation of the Seljuk Turks?
- What was the attitude of the Abbasids toward the institution of slavery?
- In what year was Jerusalem captured by Christian crusaders?
- What was the nature of Islamic religion that developed in Southeast Asia?
- Who was the Muslim leader responsible for the reconquest of most of the territories belonging to the Christian crusaders?
- How did Islam and Hinduism differ?
- Which of the following is NOT a reason for the decline of the Abbasid dynasty by the ninth century C.E..?
- What descendant of a Turkish slave dynasty in Afghanistan led a series of expeditions into India to seize booty in the eleventh century?
- What ruler was associated with the transition from raiding to the establishment of an Islamic empire in the Indian subcontinent?
- Which of the following statements concerning the mercenary armies of the later Abbasid era is NOT accurate?
- How did the political center of Islam change after the Mongol invasions?
- Which of the following was NOT a literary figure during the Abbasid Empire?