Intellectual Defence of Islam

1. Modernism began in roughly what year?

• A. 1700

• B. 1500

• C. 1250

• D. 1850

2. What are the two defining features of Modernism?

• A. Progressivism and Anti-traditionalism

• B. Progressivism and Liberalism

• C. Liberalism and Anti-traditionalism

• D. Liberalism and Feminism

3. Progressivism refers to two types of superiority, which are:

• A. Scientific and Rational

• B. Rational and Technological

• C. Spiritual and Scientific

• D. Rational and Moral

4. The two sub-ideologies of Modernism are what?

• A. Liberalism and Scientism

• B. Feminism and Communism

• C. Secularism and Materialism

• D. Atheism and Capitalism

5. Liberalism aims to maximize what?

• A. Personal choice

• B. Freedom and Equality

• C. Justice and self-determination

• D. Self-esteem and Personal choice

6. Communism is a type of ________.

• A. Secularism

• B. Feminism

• C. Liberalism

• D. Socialism

7. What are the three components of a paradigm?

• A. Ontology, Epistemology, Morality

• B. Freedom, Equality, Justice

• C. Theology, Epistemology, Metaphysics

• D. Anthropology, Cosmology, Morality

8. What does it mean to address doubts systematically?

• A. Address doubts using online technology.

• B. Address doubts by using philosophical skepticism.

• C. Address doubts by appealing to revelation, i.e., the Quran and Sunna.

• D. Address doubts at the roots, i.e., the underlying philosophies causing the doubts.

9. Why is Modernism against tradition?

• A. Tradition resists change.

• B. Tradition is irrational.

• C. Tradition is anti-technology.

• D. Tradition is religious.

10. In what two ways do Muslims concede/lose the intellectual battle to non-Muslim critics of Islam?

• A. By reforming Islam or by saying we don't care about reason, we only care about Quran and Sunnah.

• B. By using philosophical arguments or by insulting the critics.

• C. By being too academic or by reforming Islam.

• D. By ignoring the Islamic tradition or by engaging in debates.