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Curriculum development involves deciding what learners should know, how they should learn it and how achievement will be judged. Coverage includes needs analysis, aims and objectives, content selection and sequencing, learning experiences, curriculum design models, implementation, evaluation and revision. Curriculum is broader than a syllabus because it includes learning experiences and assessment as well as content.

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Fairly easy
  • A. 4 types
  • B. 6 types
  • C. 2 types
  • D. 3 categories

Explanation: Al-Ghazali broadly divided knowledge into two types: religious knowledge and worldly or non-religious knowledge.

Correct answer: 2 types
Easy
  • A. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
  • B. Allama Iqbal
  • C. Ibn-e-Sina
  • D. Imam Al-Ghazali

Explanation: The Revival of Religious Sciences, Jewels of the Quran and The Alchemy of Happiness are associated with Imam Al-Ghazali.

Correct answer: Imam Al-Ghazali
Moderate
  • A. The science of transaction
  • B. The sciences of unveiling
  • C. The sciences of modern technology
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The science of transaction concerns human dealings, conduct, rites and customs, including the rules governing social behaviour.

Correct answer: The science of transaction
Fairly easy
  • A. Literary science
  • B. Scientific knowledge
  • C. Experimental knowledge
  • D. Religious sciences

Explanation: Knowledge of God, revelation, prophets and Sharia belongs to the religious sciences in Al-Ghazali's classification.

Correct answer: Religious sciences
Fairly easy
  • A. Obligatory sciences
  • B. Optional sciences
  • C. Both of these
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Al-Ghazali distinguished between obligatory sciences, which every Muslim or the community must acquire, and optional or meritorious…

Correct answer: Both of these
Hard
  • A. 1111
  • B. 1109
  • C. 1112
  • D. 1110

Explanation: Al-Ghazali died in 1111 AD, traditionally dated to 18 December or 14 Jumada al-Thani 505 AH.

Correct answer: 1111
Fairly easy
  • A. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
  • B. Ibn-e-Sina
  • C. Ibn-e-Khaldun
  • D. Al-Ghazali

Explanation: Al-Ghazali identified certain religious and socially necessary subjects as obligatory sciences, forming the compulsory part of education.

Correct answer: Al-Ghazali
Moderate
  • A. AL-GHAZALI
  • B. Allah Muhammad Iqbal
  • C. Rousseau
  • D. Ibn-e-Sina

Explanation: Al-Ghazali distinguished useful revealed and non-revealed learning from prohibited forms of knowledge, especially knowledge pursued for…

Correct answer: AL-GHAZALI
Very hard
  • A. AL-GHAZALI
  • B. Ibn-e-Sina
  • C. J. J. Rousseau
  • D. IBN-E-KHALDUN

Explanation: Ibn-e-Khaldun viewed education as a practical process that should improve human life and contribute to happiness.

Correct answer: IBN-E-KHALDUN
Moderate
  • A. Medicine
  • B. Mathematics
  • C. Poetry and history
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Al-Ghazali placed medicine, mathematics, poetry, and history among the non-revealed or acquired sciences.

Correct answer: All of these
Very hard
  • A. Walli-Uddin Abu Zaid Abdul Rehman
  • B. Khaldun Ibn-e-Rehman
  • C. Wali ud-Din Rahman
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Ibn-e-Khaldun’s commonly cited name is Wali al-Din Abu Zayd Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad. Option A gives the shortened form of this name.

Correct answer: Walli-Uddin Abu Zaid Abdul Rehman
Hard
  • A. Science
  • B. History
  • C. Mathematics
  • D. Islamic study

Explanation: Ibn-e-Khaldun considered mathematics essential because it develops orderly, precise and logical thinking and supports other fields of…

Correct answer: Mathematics
Moderate
  • A. Curriculum
  • B. Aims
  • C. Objectives
  • D. Ideology

Explanation: Ibn-e-Khaldun linked education with the beliefs and social values of a community, so an education system should reflect its ideology.

Correct answer: Ideology
Moderate
  • A. One
  • B. Two
  • C. Three
  • D. Four

Explanation: Ibn-e-Khaldun broadly divided the sciences into two categories: transmitted or traditional sciences and rational or intellectual sciences.

Correct answer: Two
Easy
  • A. Allam Zarnoji
  • B. Allama Iqbal
  • C. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
  • D. Ibn-e-Khaldun

Explanation: The Muqaddimah, also known as the Prolegomena, was written by Ibn-e-Khaldun as an introduction to his larger history.

Correct answer: Ibn-e-Khaldun
Moderate
  • A. Hadith
  • B. Poetry
  • C. Jurisprudence
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Ibn-e-Khaldun studied and wrote in several Islamic intellectual fields, including Hadith, poetry and jurisprudence.

Correct answer: All of these
Fairly easy
  • A. Imam Al-Ghazali
  • B. Ibn-e-Khaldun
  • C. Aveecina
  • D. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Explanation: Ibn-e-Khaldun’s work has influenced history, sociology, politics, economics, education and environmental studies.

Correct answer: Ibn-e-Khaldun
Moderate
  • A. Philosophy
  • B. Political science
  • C. Sociology
  • D. All of these

Explanation: The Muqaddimah examines political organisation, social relations and the philosophy of history, making it relevant to political science…

Correct answer: All of these
Hard
  • A. Hadith
  • B. Philosophy
  • C. Science
  • D. Chemistry

Explanation: Hadith is a transmitted religious science based on reports and revelation, not a rational science derived mainly through human reasoning.

Correct answer: Hadith
Easy
  • A. Ibn-e-Khaldun
  • B. Socrates
  • C. Shah Wali Ullah
  • D. Al-Ghazali

Explanation: Ihya-e-Uloom al-Din, usually translated as The Revival of the Religious Sciences, is Al-Ghazali’s major work on religious, moral and…

Correct answer: Al-Ghazali