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Which two sources are universally regarded as the primary foundations of Islamic law (usul al-fiqh)?
The Quran and the Sunnah (the Prophet's teachings and practices) are the primary, foundational sources from which Sharia and subsequent fiqh are derived.
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In the medieval period, Islam first spread to which Southeast Asian region primarily through trade and Sufi missionary activity rather than by conquest?
Islam reached the Malay Archipelago largely via Muslim merchants and Sufi missionaries along maritime trade networks, leading to widespread conversion in Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Due to aniconic tendencies in many Islamic contexts, which decorative element became particularly central in mosque and manuscript art?
Islamic artistic conventions often favored calligraphy and geometric or arabesque decoration over figural representation, making calligraphy a dominant decorative medium.
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Which Umayyad caliph instituted Arabic as the administrative language of the caliphate and reformed coinage to reflect Islamic identity?
Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705) introduced Arabic in administration and replaced Byzantine-Sassanian coinage with Islamic coinage as part of state centralization.
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Which principle did Pakistan's Objectives Resolution (1949) assert regarding sovereignty?
The Objectives Resolution declared that sovereignty belongs to Allah and that the people would exercise authority through state institutions while guiding law-making by Islamic principles.
The Lucknow Pact marked cooperation between Congress and the Muslim League and accepted Muslim demands for separate electorates and weightage in representation.
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Which immediate factor is commonly identified as the spark for the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
The text of the Lahore Resolution spoke of independent states or autonomous units in Muslim-majority areas rather than naming a single state called Pakistan.
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Which South Asian leader is widely credited with first articulating the idea of a separate Muslim homeland in his 1930 Allahabad address?
In his 1930 Allahabad presidential address Iqbal formally envisaged a consolidated Muslim territory in north-western India, making him the earliest prominent articulator of the idea.
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Which theoretical approach in Gender Studies most directly challenges fixed categories of sexual identity and emphasizes fluidity?
