Question: In what year was Hayy ibn Yaqdha translated to the Latin language?
Answer: 1671

Question: What kind of book is Hayy ibn Yaqdha?
Answer: philosophical novel

Question: Which philosopher of the Muslim world is considered an important author of work on evolution?
Answer: al-Jahiz

Question: Ibn al-Haytham can be known by another name, what is it?
Answer: Alhazen

Question: What type of work is Ibn al-Haytham known to have pioneered?
Answer: phenomenology and the philosophy of science

Question: Who is considered to have been the one that founded Illuminationist philosophy?
Answer: Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi

Question: Which philosopher in the Muslim world championed inductive logic in their works?
Answer: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi

Question: Ibn al-Haytham experimented with what around the year 1000?
Answer: optics

Question: Ibn al-Haytham wrote about his work around the year 1000, what was it?
Answer: Book of Optics

Question: Who is believed to have discovered decagonal quasicrystal geometry?
Answer: Medieval Muslim artists

Question: Regarding the intromission theory of light, who showed the first proof?
Answer: Ibn al-Haytham

Question: Which Muslim scientist worked on trigonometry?
Answer: al-Khwarzimi

Question: What work is Mansur ibn Muhammad ibn al-Faqih Ilyas known for writing?
Answer: Tashrih al-badan (Anatomy of the body)

Question: In what century did Tashrih al-badan come into being?
Answer: 15th century

Question: Who theorized about pulmonary circulation?
Answer: Ibn al-Nafis

Question: Who wrote The Canon of Medicine?
Answer: Avicenna

Question: Who wrote Kitab al-Tasrif?
Answer: Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi

Question: What field did Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī contribute to?
Answer: astronomy

Question: What work is Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī known for as it regards to earth?
Answer: improved the precision of the measurement of the precession of the Earth's axis

Question: Who created the astrolabe?
Answer: the Greeks

Question: What model did the work of Muslim World astronomers contribute to?
Answer: the Copernican heliocentric model

Question: Who is said to have mastered the astrolabe?
Answer: Islamic astronomers and engineers

Question: which crops were brought to europe from the Muslim World?
Answer: almonds and citrus fruit

Question: What was the windmill used for?
Answer: irrigation and farming

Question: Trading in the Indian ocean was mainly controlled by whom?
Answer: Arab merchants

Question: Where was an important center of Indian Ocean trading in the 16th century?
Answer: Hormuz

Question: When did the Portuguese arrive in the Indian Ocean?
Answer: 16th century

Question: How early did people in the Muslim World start using watermills?
Answer: 7th century

Question: In what century had mills such as gristmills and sawmills dominate the Islamic world?
Answer: 11th century

Question: At what point was the use of watermills common in the Muslim World?
Answer: 9th century

Question: Who invented crankshafts?
Answer: Muslim engineers

Question: Who was the inventor of water turbines?
Answer: Muslim engineers

Question: What percentage of the humans in the world are considered Muslim?
Answer: 20%

Question: How many Muslims are believed to live on earth?
Answer: 1,5 billion

Question: In how many nations are Muslims in the majority of people?
Answer: 49

Question: How many languages are spoken by Muslims?
Answer: hundreds

Question: Which Muslim denominations are the most dominant?
Answer: Sunni and Shia

Question: What are the two main things differentiating Sunni and Shia?
Answer: how the life of the ummah ("faithful") should be governed, and the role of the imam

Question: Who is believed, among Sunnis,  to be the political successor of the Prophet?
Answer: Abu Bakr

Question: Who was Abu Bakr?
Answer: father of the Prophet's favourite wife

Question: Who was Ali ibn Abi Talib?
Answer: husband of the Prophet's daughter Fatimah

Question: What is the literacy rate in Kuwait?
Answer: over 97%

Question: In 2015 it was reported that what percentage of the Muslim World was not literate?
Answer: 37%

Question: What organizations studied literacy in the Muslim World in 2015?
Answer: Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Question: Which regions have the lowest rate of literacy in the Muslim world?
Answer: Mali, Afghanistan, Chad and parts of Africa

Question: Which organization for scientific publications was established in Pakistan in 2002?
Answer: Higher Education Commission

Question: How much did the Higher Education Commission impact the number of PhDs in Pakistan?
Answer: 5-fold increase

Question: What science university did Saudi Arabia establish?
Answer: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Question: Where is Zayed University?
Answer: United Arab Emirates

Question: How many universities were in Pakistan in 2001?
Answer: 115

Question: What is considered the most important work of Islamic architecture?
Answer: the mosque

Question: What type of decorations are used in Muslim world decorative art rather than pictures?
Answer: decorative calligraphy

Question: What is the definition of haram?
Answer: forbidden

Question: Where in Muslim architecture are pictures forbidden?
Answer: mosque architecture

Question: Where is one permitted to use representations of humans?
Answer: secular architecture

Question: Why is depicting God forbidden in the Islamic world?
Answer: such artistic depictions may lead to idolatry

Question: What do Muslims believe of the form of God?
Answer: God is incorporeal

Question: How many sura's in the Quran begin with "In the name of God?"
Answer: All but one

Question: What is the policy in the Muslim world on depicting Mohammed?
Answer: prohibited

Question: What other religions might one find depictions of God, or Prophets forbidden?
Answer: Jewish and some Christian theology

Question: What is the repetitive use of geometric floral designs known as in Islamic art?
Answer: arabesque

Question: Islam forbade types of art found in what religions?
Answer: pre-Islamic pagan religions

Question: Miniature paintings of the Ottoman empire featured what kind of subjects?
Answer: people and animals

Question: What is one reason the art of Islam may be abstract?
Answer: to symbolize the transcendence, indivisible and infinite nature of God

Question: In mosques domes may have what kind of scripts decorating them?
Answer: kufic and naskh scripts

Question: What are the main distinctive features of Islamic architecture?
Answer: ordered repetition, radiating structures, and rhythmic, metric patterns

Question: What physical characteristics are common in Islamic architecture?
Answer: columns, piers and arches

Question: When did domes first appear in the architecture of the Muslim World?
Answer: 691

Question: Which mosque is believed to be the first with a dome?
Answer: Dome of the Rock mosque

Question: When was the Taj Mahal constructed?
Answer: 17th century

Question: What is another name for the Shamsi Hijri calender?
Answer: The Solar Hijri calendar

Question: What is one way to abbreviate the Solar Hiljri calender?
Answer: SH

Question: What is the customary calendar of Iran?
Answer: the Shamsi Hijri calendar

Question: How many months are in the Shamsi Hijri calendar?
Answer: twelve months

Question: What is the first year of the Shamsi Hijri Calender based on?
Answer: Prophet Muhammad's migration to Medina

Question: How many Muslim nations require women to cover their legs, shoulders, or whole body?
Answer: a small minority

Question: What are the restrictions on the dress of Muslim women considered in the West?
Answer: sexist and oppressive

Question: Why do some Muslims oppose allowing women to reveal more of themselves?
Answer: women to reveal too much in order to be deemed attractive

Question: In its most strict style what must a woman cover in some Muslim nations?
Answer: the face