KUET 2023 Question Paper M.A. Islamic Studies

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ENTRANCE TEST-2023
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

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ISLAMIC STUDIES

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1. Arabia is 6. The khilafah of ‘Umar 1 is described as ‘modern
(A) a land of very little desert welfare state’ because
(B) the south western peninsula of Asia (A) there were many conquests
(C) a small peninsula on the map (B) he made a number of good administrative
(D) a land having very high mountains reforms
2. The jahilyah Arabs (C) he divided state in many provinces
(A) were monotheistic nomads (D) he was strict in enforcing laws
(B) were not superstitious 7. During his rule Amir Muawiyah
(C) believed in female deities (A) succeeded in controlling the revolts of the
(D) were mainly Bedouin atheists Khawarij
3. In his early life Prophet Muhammad (SAAS) was (B) could not overcome any internal threat
(A) hardly doing his job by himself (C) ignored the policy of negotiation
(B) having no interest in trade (D) proved a weak administrator
(C) not having any earning job
8. The departments of Diwan-i Barid and Diwan-i
(D) known for his honest dealings with others Khatim during the Umayyad rule
4. One of the main reasons for describing the Treaty of (A) became economically an intolerable burden
Hudaybiyah as ‘a great victory for the Muslims ’is
(B) fall in the central administration
that it
(C) had not been established
(A) was an open campaign against the Makkan
pagans (D) fall in provincial administration
(B) opened peaceful ways of preaching and 9. One factor of the success of establishment of the
practising Islam Abbasid khilafah was
(C) served the main objective of the Muslims to (A) ignoring the Shari’ah laws by the Umayyads
perform the pilgrimage (B) the unity between north Arab tribes and Mawalis
(D) made the pilgrimage to Makkah obligatory against the Umayyads
5. Institution of Khilafah in the history of Islam originated (C) extensive atrocities of the Umayyad rulers
(A) to continue the mission of Prophet Muhammad (D) extreme popularity of Abu al- Abbas al-Safah
(SAAS) on true lines of Islam
10. Al-Mansur’s period of Khilafah was
(B) mainly to establish a political society
(A) 833 AD to 842 AD
(C) merely to continue the dawah mission of the
Prophet (SAAS) (B) 754 AD to 775 AD

(D) due to the internal conflicts among the various (C) 750 AD to 754 AD
Arab tribes (D) 813 AD to 833 AD

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11. Bait al-Hikmah was extensively established as a great 16. …………………… was also a poet apart from his
centre of knowledge by contribution to religious sciences (Dini ulum) in
(A) al-Harun Muslim Spain.
(B) al-Mansur (A) Ibn Rushd
(C) Muhammad al-Mahdi (B) ‘Umar al-Khayyam

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(B) Umar Khayam (A) Zaid bin Thabit
(B) ‘Umar 1
(D) Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khawarizmi (C) ‘Uthman
13. One of the factors of success in establishing Umayyad/ (D) Abdullah ibn Mas’ud
Muslim rule in Spain was that its 18. Knowledge of asbab al- nuzul
(A) founder was a very great warrior (A) is much related to social sciences

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(B) founder, Abd al Rehman, enjoyed the support (B) helps to understand and explain the Quranic

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local ruler (D) is only to understand the beliefs in the Qur’an
14. Abd al-Rehman III is known as a great ruler of Muslim 19. Mafatih al-Ghaib falls in the category of
Spain mainly for
(A) tafsir bi al-ray
(A) spending much of his budget on the army
(B) tafsir bi al- riwayah
(B) establishing Madinah al -Zahhrah
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(B) Ibn Haytham
(D) it was very difficult to have access to the
(C) Ibn Rushd
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(D) Nur al-Din abu-Ishaq al-Butruji

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21. ‘A person’s knowledge of his rights and duties’ is 26. The founder of Jabaryyah school of thought is
definition of fiqh by regarded
(A) Abu Zahra Misri (A) one who is of Arab origin
(B) Abu Hanifah
(B) Ma’bad Jahini
(C) Al-Ghazzali
(C) Wasil bin Ata
(D) Al-Shafi’i
(D) Jahm bin Safwan
22. One of the conditions for the validity of ijma’ is that
(A) there must be agreement on any point among 27. ‘God has attributes which inhere eternally in Him and
the common people are in addition to His essence’ is the doctrine of
(B) any difference must not occur among members (A) ‘Ash’ariah
of the body of ijma’ during their deliberations (B) Mu’tazilah
(C) it must be a tacit ijma’ (C) Jabriyyah
(D) it might have taken place after the death of the
(D) Qadariyyah
Prophet (SAAS)
28. The earliest Muslim philosopher who sought
23. Early development of fiqh is found under the Sahabah
because they reconciliation between religion and philosophy was

(A) preferred it over the other religious sciences (A) Al-Farabi
(B) had memorised the Qur’an (B) Al-Ghazzali
(C) made their decrees on the emerging problems (C) Al-Kindi
(D) were very liberal in forming the law of Islam (D) Al-Ash’ari
24. Among the popular madhahib of fiqh, differences are 29. By tasawwuf in Islam is meant
(A) of non-reconciliatory nature
(A) asceticism
(B) in fundamentals of Din
(B) renunciation
(C) of subsidiary nature
(C) admonishing
(D) in Beliefs (aqa’id)
(D) ahsan
25. Ilm al- Kalam developed as a discipline to
(A) understand the Shari’ah law 30. In its early development tasawwuf termed as a way

(B) answer questions about the Islamic beliefs, of
raised by non-Muslims or some Muslims, with (A) refuge from society
arguments (B) rationality
(C) philosophise the teachings of Islam
(C) zuhd
(D) to end the rivalries which existed among the early
(D) seeking the end of political rivalries
political groups

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36. The sultan who is known for his great patronage to
(A) in the inner behaviour of a sufi as forming the education and literature in Kashmir, was
total tasawwuf (A) not himself a literary person
(B) in sobriety and calls intoxication (sukr) an evil (B) Sultan Skindar
(C) in both sobriety and intoxication as the positive (C) Sultan Zain al -Abidin

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(B) Mir’al al-Arifin (D) to introduce both the sufi path and the Shar’iah
(C) Nur al- Yaqin properly
(D) Fawa’id al-Fu’ad 38. Shaikh al- Alam in his poetry awakens his masses
33. Before the establishment of the Muslim Sultanate in about
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34. Ranchan, the ruler of Kashmir, converted to Islam (A) in political works
(A) merely for the political reasons (B) mainly in sufi poetry
(B) at the hands of Syed Sharaf ud-Din (Bulbul (C) in both religious sciences and poetry
Shah) (D) in developing cordial relations with the local
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(D) Sultan ‘Ala ud -Din (D) in its replacement of local language and culture

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41. Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab succeeded in seeking 46. Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi is
co-operation of Amir ibn Sa’ud to (A) directly a contrast to AMU, Aligarh
(A) establish his own political power (B) a semi traditional educational institution
(C) a modern developed educational institution
(B) reform the society in terms of Islamic creed and
(D) not having its vocational courses
law
47. Jamal ud-Din Afghani was not tolerated by the British
(C) make a strict retrogressive society
colonial power mainly for his
(D) to revolt against the British colonialism (A) refutation of Naturalists
42. The movement of Hasan al -Bana believes in (B) preaching the unity of the Muslim world
(A) anti-modernisation of education (C) revolutionary traditionalism
(B) religious extremism (D) differences with al-Azhar ‘ulama
48. Dr. Muhmmad Iqbal was a Muslim thinker who
(C) traditional absolutism
(A) had not enough knowledge of modern
(D) change through parliamentary democracy philosophies
43. One objective of Islamic revolution of Iran was to (B) propounded the universal vision of Islam in his
(A) form a federation of world Islamic nations works
(B) oppose the westernisation policies of (C) was in favour of modern materialism
Muhmmad Reza Shah (D) was little interested in the Indian spiritual legacy
49. The Qur’an instructs about ‘conduct of affairs with
(C) marginalise the women education
consultation’
(D) ignore the status of the Sunni jurisprudence (A) is directly related to sovereignty of Allah
44. Tanzimat is a period in the Turkish history that is known (B) that prescribes the establishment of state
for (C) that signifies the democratic spirit of Islamic state
(A) its industrialisation (D) is meant to form the community
(B) reforms of secular democratic nature 50. The term, al- madinah al -fadilah forms a category
of state in the political thought of
(C) preservation of Islamic Turkish culture
(A) al-Mawardi
(D) pan -Islamism
(B) al-Ghazzali
45. Nadwatul ‘Ulama, Lucknow is famous for imparting (C) Ibn -Khaldun
education in (D) al-Farabi
(A) philosophy of Islamic law 51. Payment of zakah by the wealthy in Islam is to
(B) vocational courses (A) ensure full economic equality
(C) Arabic language and literature with Islamic (B) provide economic security to poor and destitute
orientation (C) prevent people from becoming wealthy
(D) science of Hadith (D) eradicate love for earning wealth

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‘And it is He who created the night and the day, and
other becomes entrepreneur and the profit is shared the sun and the moon. Each of them is floating in its
as per agreed terms and the loss is borne by the orbit’ is translation of verse 33, Al-Anbiya
capitalist, is called in Islamic banking (A) explaining that worship is to God alone
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(C) to understand the culture scientifically (B) ‘theory of balance’
(D) in both ideological and empirical way (C) knowledge in Jurisprudence of his school
54. Ibn Khaldun’s social thought explains (D) critique of Greek sciences
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55. Islamic Psychology is the study
a development of science in India
(A) of mystical ways of an individual being (C) liked little to motivate the youth of India
(B) of spiritual side of man (D) was merely interested in development of
(C) what is good for man technological knowledge
(D) of human behaviour with reference to submission 60. The Islamic World Academy of Sciences (IAS) is a
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phenomenon (D) does not publish any of its journal

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