- 1. The accusation that most Muslim scholarship has been based on forgery would necessarily imply that all the geographically scattered scholars of the first four centuries of hadith collection, collaborated together in a mutual __________
A) dialogue
B) conspiracy
C) propaganda
D) deception
- 2. Which Islamic caliphacy was known to be actively engaged in codifying every aspect of Muslim religious practice?
A) Umayyad
B) Ottoman
C) Abbasid
- 3. Which khalifa was known to have made sophisticated use of Qur‘anic quotations, on coinage and public monuments, to announce the new Islamic world order?
A) Ali
B) Mu'awiyah
C) Umar
D) 'Abd al-Malik
- 4. The non-Muslim orientalist, Ignaz Goldziher, clung to the theory that certain variations in some of the reports make the entire story of the Qur‘an‘s compilation ________
A) reconcilable
B) credible
C) dubious
D) reliable
- 5. The majority of the reports indicate that Uthman‘s official mushaf is __________
A) ghareeb
B) mutawaatir
C) ahad
- 6. The role of Uthman in the standardization of the Qur'an, in other words, was simply that of a ________ of the authentic and agreed-upon Qur‘anic text.
A) collector
B) publisher
C) compiler
- 7. Which of the following is true about the bulk of the hadith about the collection of the Qur'an? The bulk of the Hadith were written down in the ____ Century.
A) fourth
B) first
C) third
D) second
- 8. Who is the author of "Studies in Early Hadith Literature"?
A) Muhammad Mohar Ali
B) N.J. Coulson
C) Muhammad M. Azami
- 9. Who is the author of "The Qur‟an and the Orientalists: A Brief Survey of their Assumptions"?
A) Muhammad M. Azami
B) N.J. Coulson
C) Muhammad Mohar Ali
- 10. Which of the following writers concluded that Muslim scholars‘ deductions of history hold more solid ground with the available evidence than their orientalist counterparts‘ deductions?
A) Estelle Whelan
B) N.J. Coulson
C) Jeffrey Lang
- 11. Which of the following writers observed that orientalist analysis is often ―guided predominantly by generalizations drawn from the history of the biblical text, which were then applied to Muslim scripture?
A) Estelle Whelan
B) N.J. Coulson
C) Jeffrey Lang
- 12. Which of the following orientalists drew this conclusion? "It seems reasonably well established that no material changes were introduced and that the original form of Mohammed‘s discourses were preserved with scrupulous precision."
A) N.J. Coulson
B) H.A.R. Gibb
C) Jeffrey Lang
D) John Burton
- 13. In what year did John Burton draw the following conclusion about the Qur'an despite his staunch skepticism? "the Qur‘an as we have it today is ―the text which has come down to us in the form in which it was organized and approved by the Prophet…. What we have today in our hands is the mushaf of Muhammad."
A) 1979
B) 1976
C) 1977
D) 1978
- 14. Which of the following orientalists drew this conclusion? "What we have today in our hands is the mushaf of Muhammad."
A) John Burton
B) N.J. Coulson
C) Jeffrey Lang
D) H.A.R. Gibb
- 15. Who is the author of "The Collection of the Qur'an"?
A) N.J. Coulson
B) John Burton
C) H.A.R. Gibb
D) Jeffrey Lang
- 16. Several first century mushafs still exist today and can be found in the following places except ________
A) The Columbia University Library in the US
B) Museum of the City of Tashkent in Uzbekistan, Central Asia
C) Topkapi Museum in Istanbul
D) Library of Congress in Dublin
- 17. Early last century, the Institute for Koranforschung, for example, in the University of Munich (Germany), collected over _________ complete and incomplete ancient copies of the Qur‘an.
A) 32,000
B) 52,000
C) 42,000
D) 22,000
- 18. The two long inscriptions in blue-and-gold glass mosaic which encircle the inner and outer faces of the octagonal arcade of the Dome of the Rock were commissioned by the Umayyad Caliph 'Abd al-Malik in the year __________
A) 70A.H./689-690C.E
B) 71A.H./690-691C.E
C) 72A.H./691-692C.E
D) 69A.H./688-689C.E
- 19. The Birmingham Qur‘an Manuscript contains parts of surahs _______ of the Qur‘an, written on parchment in an early form of Arabic script known as Ḥijazi.
A) 18-23
B) 18-21
C) 18-20
D) 18-22
- 20. The Birmingham Qur‘an Manuscript contains parts of the Qur‘an, written on parchment in an early form of Arabic script known as ______.
A) Himmari
B) Ḥijazi
C) Hittami
D) Hinnami
- 21. The result of modern radiocarbon (C-14) dating of the Birmingham Qur‘an Manuscript parchment on which the text of the Qur'an was written places the manuscript in the period between the year ______ and _____
A) 569 and 645
B) 570 and 645
C) 571 and 645
D) 568 and 645
- 22. The radiocarbon testing on The Birmingham Qur‘an Manuscript was commissioned from the University of Oxford and carried out in the year ____________.
A) 2011
B) 2013
C) 2014
D) 2012
- 23. The age long preservation of the Qur'an is based on the promise of Allah in a verse of the Qur'an which can be found in _________.
A) Q.16:9
B) Q.14:9
C) Q.17:9
D) Q.15:9
- 24. Complete this verse of the Qur'an on Allah's promise to preserve it. "Verily, We have revealed the _________, and verily We shall preserve it."
A) Criterion
B) Book
C) Reminder
D) Scripture
- 25. The first translation of the Qur‘an into a foreign language was done by the Prophet‘s companion named ___________ when he translated Suratul Fathia into Middle Persian (Pahlavi) language in the early seventh century (CE).
A) Hakeem bn Hisham
B) Salman Al-Farsi
C) Sa'd bn Abi Waqas
D) Mu'adh bn Jabal
- 26. The first translation of the Qur‘an into a foreign language was into __________ language in the early seventh century (CE).
A) Chinese
B) Middle Persian (Pahlavi)
C) Indian
D) Abyssinian
- 27. The first translation of the Qur‘an into a foreign language was done in the ____________.
A) early sixth century (CE)
B) early eighth century (CE)
C) early fifth century (CE)
D) early seventh century (CE)
- 28. Only the Arabic version of the Qur‘an is considered the Qur‘an‖ and all translations of the Qur‘an are considered interpretations.
A) False
B) True
- 29. Arabic is regarded as a highly _________ language with words and phrases that may not have direct equivalents in other languages
A) nuanced
B) fashioned
C) scripted
D) dated
- 30. The word exegesis is the English translation of _______
A) takbir
B) dhikr
C) tafsir
D) tadabbur
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