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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The God of the Mystics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A similar intellectual movement developed among the Jews in the Islamic empire who did not accept the doctrine of ____________.
(a) The Neopolitan.
(b) The Metropolitan.
(c) The Neoclassical.
(d) The Neoplatonic.

2. Who is a distinguished Muslim philosopher in Cordova, Spain who had an enormous influence on both Jews and Christians and specifically on theologians such as Thomas Aquinas and Albert the Great?
(a) Abu Hassan Husein.
(b) Abu Allah Hasid.
(c) Abu Walid ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.
(d) Abu Ali ibn Sina.

3. Thomas Aquinas made a lasting contribution to Western Christianity by trying to synthesize ____________.
(a) Augustine and Greek philosophy.
(b) Augustine and Muslim philosophy.
(c) Muslim and Greek philosophy.
(d) Greek and Buddhist philosophy.

4. The focal point for the new spirituality was in the town of ____________.
(a) Mecca.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Medina.
(d) Safed in Galilee.

5. The Jews tried to modify this theory ____________.
(a) To allow God more time to create the world.
(b) To allow God to have more control.
(c) To allow God a certain degree of spontaneity and free will.
(d) To allow God more power over humanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tribe was Muhammad a member of?

2. In 312 CE, the emperor Constantine _____________.

3. The effect of this behavior towards Jewish people was ____________.

4. What is the belief stated in this doctrine?

5. In 622 CE, accepting an invitation from the inhabitants of Yathrib, Muhammad and his followers migrated to ______.

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