Test Your Knowledge of Islam

2) These things were not explained because it was assumed that the people hearing the Qur'an already knew of them.

3) Some passages in the Qur'an would be unintelligible without recourse to pre-Islamic history.

4) All Islamic scholars use pre-Islamic history to explain parts of the Qur'an.

5) It is both legitimate and proper to use pre-Islamic history to explain the Qur'an.

6) Yusuf Ali refers to pre-Islamic history when he comments about such things as the "she camel", the elephant army, the twelve springs, the youths in the face, the blind man, and many other references in the Qur'an.

7) Mecca was a pre-Islamic pagan center of worship.

8) The Kabah in Mecca was a pre-Islamic pagan temple, filled with 360 idols.

9) Archaeologists have found three other ancient Kabahs in Arabia.

10) The pre-Islamic pagan Arabs prayed by bowing down toward Mecca several times a day.

11) Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs made pilgrimages to Mecca.

12) When pre-Islamic pagan Arabs came to Mecca, they ran between two hills.

13) Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs ran around the Kabah seven times.

14) Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs kissed and caressed a large black stone on the wall of the Kabah.

15) Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs sacrificed animals at the Kabah.

16) Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs threw a magical number of stones at a pillar of the Devil.

17) Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs held their public meetings on Friday instead of Saturday or Sunday.

18) Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs fasted during the day and feasted at night for one month.

19) The pre-Islamic pagan Arab fast began and ended with the moon in its crescent phase.

20) Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs gave alms to the poor.

21) Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs performed ritual washings before prayers.

22) As one of their washings before prayer, Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs snorted water up and then out of their noses.

23) Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs cut off the hands of thieves.

24) Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs prohibited marrying sisters.

25) Pre-Islamic pagan Arabs prohibited the eating of swine flesh.

26) In pre-Islamic Arabian genealogies, Ishmael is nowhere mentioned as the father of the Arabs.

27) Abraham, the father of Ishmael, was not an Arab.

28) Haga, the mother of Ishmael, was an Egyptian and not an Arab.

29) Since his mother and father were not Arabs, Ishmael was not an Arab.

30) Ishmael could not possibly be the "father of the Arabs" because the Arabs already existed before Ishmael was born.

31) According to the historical and literary evidence, Abraham and Ishmael lived in Palestine, not Arabia.

32) Abraham and Ishmael never lived in Mecca.

33) Abraham and Ishmael never built the Kabah.

34) Abraham and Ishmael never established the rituals connected with the Kabah, such as the pilgrimage to Mecca.

35) According to pre-Islamic Arab history, the Kabah at Mecca was built by Kosia, the pagan great-grandfather of Mohammed.

36) The title "Al-Ilah" was used by pre-Islamic pagan Arabs in reference to one of the 360 gods worshiped at the Kabah.

37) The word "Al-Ilah" was shortened into "Allah".

38) The moon god was called "Al-Ilah" and then "Allah" by some pre-Islamic pagan Arabs in southern Arabia.

39) Al-lat, Al-uzza, and Manat were worshiped by the pre-Islamic pagan Arabs as "the daughters of Allah".

40) Mohammed's father lived and died as a pre-Islamic pagan, and yet the word "Allah" was part of his name.

41) Yusuf Ali points out in his translation of the Qur'an that the moon was worshiped as a god by pagan Arabs.

42) Many of the pre-Islamic pagan Arab rituals associated with the worship of Allah and his daughters were incorporated into the Qur'an and are now a part of Islam.

43) The religion of Islam has adopted the name, the rituals, and the crescent moon symbol of the pagan Arab moon-god.

44) Some of the material found in the Qur'an can be traced back to pre-Islamic pagan Arab religions.

45) The people of Mohammed's day are recorded in the Qur'an as saying that Mohammed took old wive's tales and myths and put them into the Qur'an.

46) The Qur'an warns against asking questions about Islam because if the answers are revealed, you will lose your faith in Islam.

47) According to the Hadiths, Mohammed taught that drinking camel urine could cure certain diseases.

48) According to the Hadiths, Mohammed taught that the sun went down in a mud puddle at night.

49) According to the Qur'an, Jesus was not crucified; an impostor died in the place of Jesus on the cross.

50) Muslis are told in the Quran to read the other holy books:  the Torah (which is the first five books of the Old Testament), the Zabur (which are the Psams of David), and the Injeel (the gospel of Christ).