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Occultation | What has happened to some of the Shia tariqahs last Imams? |
Shia Nizari Ismailis | Who deny the concept of Occulation? |
present and living | What kind of Imam do Shia Nizari Ismailis have? |
come to an end | What would happen to the Nizari Ismaili if the Imam fails to leave a successor? |
seven | How many great prophets has Allah sent? |
Nātıq | What are the seven great prophets known as? |
disseminate and improve his Dīn of Islam | What are the seven great prophets supposed to do? |
Sāmad (Silent) Imām | What is the great prophets assistant called? |
the "Shia" | In Shia tariqah, what are the Twelvers commonly known as? |
Ismailis | What are the Nizari Ismailis more commonly known as? |
Bohras | What are the Mustalian Ismailis commonly known as? |
The Shia Sevener | Which tariqah no longer exists? |
Zaidi Shias | Which tariah is known as the Fivers? |
via deputies | How did al-Mahdi maintain contact during his Occultation? |
acted as agents between him and his followers | How did deputies represent al-Mahdi? |
write their concerns and send them to his deputy | What would believers do when they had a problem? |
seal and signature | What would the deputy endorse the concerns with? |
zakat and khums | What did the deputies collect in the Imam's behalf? |
living imams | How do Ismailis differ from Twelvers? |
Isma'il ibn Jafar | Who is the elder brother of Musa al-Kadhim? |
Ja'far al-Sadiq | Who is the father of Isma'il ibn Jafar? |
mantle of the imamate | What did Imam Ismail pass on to his son? |
Bohras/Dawoodi Bohra | What are the Mustali Ismaili Shia Muslims also known as? |
went into a Dawr-e-Satr | What do Bohras believe happened to Taiyab abi al-qasim? |
Dai-al-Mutlaq | Who are the Bohras led by in the absence of an imam? |
manages the affairs of the Imam | What does a Dai-al-Mutlaq do? |
Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin | Who is Dawoodi Bohra's present 53rd Da'i al-Butlaq? |
Muhammad | Who do Muslims believe said "To whomsoever I am Mawla, Ali is his Mawla? |
45 | How many books can this quote be found? |
the word 'Mawla' | What is the point of conflict between Sunni and Shia? |
beloved | What does the work Mawla mean to Sunnies? |
Lord and Master | What does the word Mawla mean to Shia? |
2:124 | By what Quran verse to Shias believe that Imamah is a divine position? |
no age can be without an Imam | What does the Quran verse 17:71 say? |
God | Imamah is a position appointed by who? |
divine protection | What is an Imam protected by? |
Imam | Who knows everything that is needed to get to the truth and goal? |
Hussayn ibn 'Alī | Who was the brother of Hassan ibn 'Ali? |
son | Usually, how has each Imam been related to the previous Imam? |
Genesis 17:19–20 | What bible verse do Shia use to support their belief of succession? |
the northern hemisphere | Where does migration mainly occur? |
availability of food | Why do birds primarily migrate? |
Many species | Which birds migrate? |
the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds | What is bird migration? |
humans | What is a cause of death to birds during migration? |
3,000 years ago | When was migration first recorded? |
Homer and Aristotle, and in the Book of Job | Who recorded the earliest records of migration? |
Finland | Where was Johannes Leche from? |
storks, turtle doves, and swallows | Which species of birds were recorded 3,000 years ago? |
habitat destruction | What is a major threat to migratory birds? |
The Arctic tern | Which birds migrate the furthest? |
between Arctic breeding grounds and the Antarctic | Where does the Arctic tern migrate each year? |
between their northern breeding grounds and the southern ocean | Where do Manx shearwaters migrate? |
albatrosses | which bird migrates by circling the earth? |
altitudinal migrations on mountains such as the Andes and Himalayas | What is an example of a shorter migration? |
changes in day length | What causes the timing of migration? |
celestial cues from the sun and stars | How do migrating birds navigate? |
the earth's magnetic field | How else to migrating birds navigate? |
mental maps | What might help migrating birds navigate? |
Ancient Greek writers | Who recorded early records of migration? |
the Book of Job (39:26) | Where in the bible does it mention migration? |
hawk | What bird is mentioned in the book of Job? |
Aristotle | Who noted that cranes traveled from Scythia to the Nile? |
Pliny the Elder | Who repeats Aristotle's observations? |
in his Historia Naturalis | Where did Pliny the Elder repeat Aristotle's observations? |
cranes | What kind of bird did Aristotle and Pliny the Elder write about? |
swallows | Which bird did Aristotle believe hibernated? |
1878 | Until what year did the belief of hibernating birds persist? |
Elliott Coues | Who wrote 182 papers dealing with the hibernation of swallows? |
Gilbert White | Who wrote "The Natural History of Selborne"? |
the end of the eighteenth century | When was migration finally accepted? |
Thomas Bewick | Who wrote A History of British Birds? |
1797 | What year was Thomas Bewick's book published? |
between the islands of Minorca and Majorca | Where were Swallows seen flying? |
northward | Which directions were the Swallows flying? |
Bewick | Who describes an experiment with swallows? |
Britain | Where did this experiment take place? |
they remained warm and dry through the winters | How did the experiment succeed? |
several years | How long did the birds stay alive? |
response to changes in food availability, habitat, or weather | Why do birds migrate? |
resident or sedentary | What are non=migratory birds called? |
10,000 | How many species of birds are there? |
1800 | How many bird species are long distance migrants? |
north and south | Which direction do birds primarily migrate? |
a flyway | Along where do many birds migrate? |
south | What is the most common directionof migration in autumn? |
flying north | What is the most common pattern of migration in the spring? |
to breed | Why do the birds fly north? |
food | What is the primary motivation for migration? |
hummingbirds | Which birds will not migrate if they are well fed through winter? |
autumn | When do the birds return to warmer regions? |
time for breeding birds to feed their young. | what do the longer days of summer provide the birds? |
larger clutches | What do diurnal birds produce as opposed to non migratory species? |
Predation | What is hightened during migration? |
Mediterranean islands | Where do Eleonora's falcon breed? |
southbound passerine migrants | What do Eleonora's falcon feed their young? |
the greater noctule bat | What preys on nocturnal passerine migrants? |
higher concentrations of migrating birds | What makes birds prone to parasites and pathogens? |
not all populations may be migratory | What is partial migration? |
the southern continents | Where is partial migration most common? |
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