Question: What mental state is the foundation of morality as described by the Quran?
Answer: Belief

Question: What finance-related acts are forbidden by the Quran?
Answer: usury and gambling

Question: What is the name of the formal prayer proscribed by the Quran?
Answer: salat

Question: Which month is designated for fasting in the Quran?
Answer: Ramadan

Question: The Quran uses a term that also means purification for what social act?
Answer: charity

Question: Which astrophysicist has written about the ways the Quran encourages scientific thinking?
Answer: Nidhal Guessoum

Question: Verse 2:111 of the Quran supports which aspect of scientific thought and practice?
Answer: proof

Question: Whose scholarship on the concept of proof in the Quran does Guessoum cite?
Answer: Ghaleb Hasan

Question: Which philosopher believed the Quran had a rational and empirical basis like science?
Answer: Muhammad Iqbal

Question: Nature and its phenomena are mentioned in approximately how many of the Quran's verses?
Answer: 750

Question: Al-Battani is an example of a Muslim scientist who drew inspiration from which text?
Answer: Quran

Question: Who recommended science as a way to achieve the goals of the Quran?
Answer: Mohammad Hashim Kamali

Question: Who argued that the Quran inspired the first practitioners of the scientific method we use today?
Answer: Ziauddin Sardar

Question: Al-Biruni is a example of a scientists of which religion?
Answer: Muslim

Question: Which physicist quoted the Quran in his address after receiving the Nobel Prize?
Answer: Abdus Salam

Question: Which verse from the Quran did Abdus Salam quote at his Nobel banquet?
Answer: 67:3-4

Question: Which two Muslim scientists did Salam celebrate as inventors of empirical methods?
Answer: Ibn al-Haytham and Al-Biruni

Question: Salam suggests physics and science be kept separate from which topics which are more suited to religion?
Answer: metaphysics

Question: What description of the writing in the Quran highlights its poetic aspect?
Answer: rhymed prose

Question: Which suras in the Quran are particularly rhythmic?
Answer: earlier Meccan suras

Question: What often changes along with the rhyming of Quranic verses?
Answer: subject of discussion

Question: Which parts of the Quran are the least poetic?
Answer: Later

Question: What is lacking in the arrangement of the Quranic text?
Answer: continuity

Question: To which critic does Michael Sells refer on the subject of the Quran's disorganization?
Answer: Norman O. Brown

Question: How does Sells describe the Quran's repetitiveness?
Answer: a literary device

Question: Which scholar believes the Quran's fragmentary writing style is an effective literary device for a prophetic message?
Answer: Michael Sells

Question: What metatextual character does Stefan Wild focus on in his discussion of the Quran?
Answer: Self-referentiality

Question: What quality does the Quran claim in the different ways in which it refers to itself?
Answer: Divinity

Question: Which term that the Quran uses for itself means "news"?
Answer: naba'

Question: The Quran is more self-referential in which of its suras?
Answer: early Meccan suras

Question: What is the name of the activity of explaining what Quranic verses mean?
Answer: Tafsir

Question: Who was the first practitioner of Tafsir?
Answer: Muhammad

Question: What is the Arabic term for Quranic exegesis?
Answer: Tafsir

Question: Who were 'Ali ibn Abi Talib and 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas?
Answer: Companions of Muhammad

Question: In which language is the Quran recited?
Answer: classical Arabic

Question: What is the Arabic term for the cancellation of one part of the Quran by another?
Answer: nāsikh

Question: What is the name of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community's published Quran commentary?
Answer: Tafseer e Kabir

Question: What is the term for earlier portions of the Quran that may have been superseded by later parts?
Answer: mansūkh

Question: In which language is the Tafseer e Kabir written?
Answer: Urdu

Question: What is another term for Sufi Quranic interpretation?
Answer: Esoteric

Question: What Arabic word describes the aspects of Quranic verses that Sufism tries to push beyond?
Answer: zahir

Question: What is an Arabic term for allusions?
Answer: isharat

Question: Sands says Sufi interpretations tend to use which literary device rather than direct explanation?
Answer: allusions

Question: Beloved is a term for God used by which style of Quranic interpretation?
Answer: Sufi

Question: Which Quranic verse describes Moses' encounter with God at the mountain?
Answer: 7:143

Question: In Sufi thought, what experiences bring one closer to truth?
Answer: longing and suffering

Question: Who wrote that Moses had lost the Moses in himself along the way to his encounter with God?
Answer: Qushayri

Question: Who was an important esoteric interpreter of the Quran in the 11th century?
Answer: Sulami

Question: What is the English name of Sulami's major work?
Answer: Truths of Exegesis

Question: In which language did Maybudi write?
Answer: Persian

Question: Which Sufi commentator wrote the Spirit of Elucidation?
Answer: Ismail Hakki Bursevi

Question: In which year did the poet Rumi die?
Answer: 1273

Question: What is the Arabic term for the surface-level aspects of a text?
Answer: zahir

Question: What Arabic term applies to interpretations aimed at the deeper, esoteric meanings of a text?
Answer: ta'wil

Question: Who is the only one who ever knows the full meaning of Quranic verses in the esoteric view?
Answer: God

Question: Which two groups are examples of Muslims who advocate a very literal reading of the Quran?
Answer: Salafis and Zahiris

Question: In which language was the Quran first translated?
Answer: Persian

Question: Which work did scribes from Khorasan translate in the 10th century?
Answer: Tafsir al-Tabari

Question: Whose student wrote a Persian tafsir of the Quran in the 11th century?
Answer: Abu Mansur Abdullah al-Ansari

Question: Who wrote a Persian translation of the Quran in the 12th century?
Answer: Najm al-Din Abu Hafs al-Nasafi

Question: To which dynasty did the king who commissioned the first translation of Quranic texts belong?
Answer: Samanid

Question: In which year was the Quran first translated into a Western language?
Answer: 1143

Question: Which organization offers versions of the Quran in 50 languages?
Answer: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Question: Whose French translation of the Quran was the model for the first English version?
Answer: Andre du Ryer

Question: Who completed the first Latin version of the Quran?
Answer: Robert of Ketton

Question: In which language was Alexander Ross' version of the Quran published in 1649?
Answer: English

Question: What discipline concerns the way the Quran is correctly recited?
Answer: tajwid

Question: Tajwid deals with what aspect of the phonemes in the Quran?
Answer: pronunciation

Question: Tajwid describes rules for what noiseless aspect of articulating Quranic verses?
Answer: pause in recitation

Question: Rhythm is an example of which features of Quranic recitation covered by tajwid?
Answer: musical and melodious

Question: The absence of which language feature made early Quranic recitation more diverse?
Answer: Vocalization markers

Question: Which Baghdad scholar identified justified seven different Quranic readings?
Answer: Ibn Mujāhid

Question: Which century produced the seven readings selected by Ibn Mujāhid?
Answer: 8th

Question: Which recitation is the original basis of the Quran of Cairo?
Answer: ʻAsim's

Question: Which city corresponds to Asim's recitation of the Quran?
Answer: Kufa

Question: Who created Quranic manuscripts before the 19th century?
Answer: calligraphers and copyists

Question: What is the name of the thicker-stroked writing used for the Quran beginning in the 9th century?
Answer: Kufic scripts

Question: Which was the most widely used script by copyists in the 11th century?
Answer: naskh