Who were the ayan?
a. African slaves
b. A rural landholding elite
c. Free artisans
d. Abbasid bureaucrats
e. Jewish converts to Islam
Answer: B
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AP World History
- Which of the following cultures of the Arabian Peninsula was most significant the development of Islam?
- What was the most significant of the transformations brought about by the Abbasids' rise to power?
- What was the nature of the material culture of bedouin society?
- Which of the following groups was NOT a component of bedouin society?
- Which of the following was NOT a reason for the early expansion of Islam beyond Arabia?
- Which of the following statements concerning bedouin society is NOT accurate?
- Which of the following groups was responsible for the slaughter of the male descendents of the Umayyad Dynasty?
- Under the Umayyads, the political center of Islam shifted to
- The term for non-Arab Muslim converts is
- When did Muhammad receive the first revelations that were eventually written down in the Quran?
- What was the Umayyad response to Muhammad's migration to Medina and subsequent success there?
- What was the date of Muhammad's flight to Medina from Mecca?
- Which of the following represents a mounting pressure for change in pre-Islamic society?
- Which of the following statements concerning Muhammad's flight to Medina is NOT correct?
- What was the nature of pre-Islamic bedouin religion?
- The Umayyads felt threatened by all of the following developments EXCEPT
- What was the result of the first civil war between Ali and the Umayyads?
- What was the clan into which Muhammad was born?
- Why was the caliph Uthman disliked by so many Arabs?
- Which of the following is NOT among the "five pillars" of Islam?
- The Abbasids moved the political center of their empire to
- The wars to defeat rival prophets and restore the unity of Islam were called
- What was the nature of citizenship within the Umayyad Empire?
- What was the Ka'ba?
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