1. What year was 2000 A.D. in the Islamic calendar? Why?
Answer: 1378; Because year one occurred the year of Muhammad's Hegira. (622 AD)

2. What is the official name of the pilgrimage to Mecca required by every Muslim in their lifetime?
Answer: hajj

3. Who succeeded Muhammad to lead the muslims as caliph?
Answer: Abu Bakr

4. What was the difference between the shi'ites and the sunnites that caused the schism of Islam?
Answer: Shi'ites accepted only descendants of Ali (Muhammad's son-in-law) as the true rulers of Islam. Sunnites claimed the descendants of the Umayyads were the true rulers (Caliphs).


5. Where di the Abbasids build the new capital for the Muslim world in 762?
Answer: Baghdad


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