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Quiz for Working with Evidence: Contending for Islam

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What distinguishes the arguments of Kemel Atatürk (Source 22.1) from those of Kabir Helminski (Source 22.3)?

Helminski advocates the revival of the caliphate.

Ataturk advocates for sharia law to be the sole law of the state.

Helminski relies more heavily on the Quran to make his case.

Atatürk relies more heavily on an idealized Ottoman past to make his arguments.

1. What distinguishes the arguments of Kemel Atatürk (Source 22.1) from those of Kabir Helminski (Source 22.3)?

2. Which of the following was an objective of the Muslim Brotherhood (Source 22.2) in the mid-1930s?

To create political parties

To reform the law to bring it into accordance with British common law

To supervise the private lives of government officials

To eliminate female education

2. Which of the following was an objective of the Muslim Brotherhood (Source 22.2) in the mid-1930s?

3. How did Atatürk (Source 22.1) justify the abolition of the caliphate?

While attainable, it would require too great a sacrifice by Turkey to put in place.

Persia was better placed to create the caliphate.

A caliphate was not an Islamic concept.

The caliphate was an unattainable concept.

3. How did Atatürk (Source 22.1) justify the abolition of the caliphate?

4. On which of the following did Emaan and Khan agree (Source 22.4)?

That Islam does not mandate the wearing of a burqa or headscarf

That women should be subservient to men

That Islam is an inherently patriarchal religion

That the burqa is an instrument of male oppression

4. On which of the following did Emaan and Khan agree (Source 22.4)?

5. For Kabir Helminski (Source 22.3), what does the last fourteen centuries of Jerusalem’s history reveal?

That Islamic civilizations have a long history of encouraging religious tolerance

That Islam is closely related to both Christianity and Judaism

That Muslims can live peacefully under rulers who do not share their faith

That jihad can be conducted peacefully

5. For Kabir Helminski (Source 22.3), what does the last fourteen centuries of Jerusalem’s history reveal?