Arab Culture

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1. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
Beirut
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
22
Struggle for God


2. What are the 'Five Pillars of Islam'?

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3. What is the Kaaba?
1) Hanafi - Arab Middle East and South Asia 2) Hanbali - Saudi Arabia 3) Maliki - North - Central - and West Africa 4) Shafi'i - North - Central - and West Africa
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
The center of worship in Mecca that the houses the black stone. Pagans use to worship there - and now Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca.


4. Who are the Nabatians?
Sana
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Djibouti
20-25%


5. What is Mesopotamia?
Kuwait City
Sufism
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
The land between the two rivers - the Tigris and the Euphrates. The first civilization - and home to the kingdoms of Sumeria - Assyria - Akkadia - and Babylonia.


6. United Arab Emirates
The center of worship in Mecca that the houses the black stone. Pagans use to worship there - and now Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca.
The land between the two rivers - the Tigris and the Euphrates. The first civilization - and home to the kingdoms of Sumeria - Assyria - Akkadia - and Babylonia.
Abu Dhabi
Joseph


7. The two holly days unanimously recognized (by both Sunni and Shi'i Islam) are:
Baghdad
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Arab league members
Dhikr


8. Algeria - Bahrain - Comoros - Djibouti - Egypt - Iraq - Jordan - Kuwait - Lebanon - Libya - Mauritania - Morocco - Oman - State of Palestine - Qatar - Saudi Arabia - Somalia - Sudan - Syria - Tunisia - United Arab Emirates - Yemen.
Arab league members
Beirut
Arabian monotheism
The Arab world is made up of all the countries where Arabic is the national language. The Muslim world does not exist. The Middle East is a political and geographical area East of Europe that includes Turkey - Iran - Israel - Afghanistan - and Pakist


9. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
Tariiqa
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Title: 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a Triumph; speaks about the author's war experience in the Arab's revolt for independence against the Ottoman Turks
Arabian monotheism


10. Yemen
Immoderate view
Sana
The Arab world is made up of all the countries where Arabic is the national language. The Muslim world does not exist. The Middle East is a political and geographical area East of Europe that includes Turkey - Iran - Israel - Afghanistan - and Pakist
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.


11. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

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12. Tunisia
the performer of adhan
Tunis
The journey of Muhammad and the Umma from Mecca to Yathrib in the year 622; this journey marks the end of aljihiyya (the period of ignorance) and the beginning of the Islamic calendar.
Riyadh


13. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
Khartoum
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Moderate view
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam


14. Egypt
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Sufism
Cairo


15. What is Pan-Arabism?
The legal system in Islam was formed progressively - by the contribution of religious scholars called 'ulamaa' - 'An organized Muslim judiciary became established only after Mu'awiya seized the caliphate in 661
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.


16. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
Kuwait City
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Muscat
The Arab world is made up of all the countries where Arabic is the national language. The Muslim world does not exist. The Middle East is a political and geographical area East of Europe that includes Turkey - Iran - Israel - Afghanistan - and Pakist


17. Who are the Shiites?
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman


18. 'Lawrence of Arabia's most famous book is entitled.....and speaks about....'

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19. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
Mustasawwif
Riyadh
22
The Suspended Odes. - The master pieces of the Pre-Islamic poetry composed in Classical Arabic - by the most famous poets of Arabia - in the 6th century AD before the birth of the Islam (and the Revelation of the Qur'anic text).


20. Syria
The Arab world is made up of all the countries where Arabic is the national language. The Muslim world does not exist. The Middle East is a political and geographical area East of Europe that includes Turkey - Iran - Israel - Afghanistan - and Pakist
Damascus
Mogadishu
Immoderate view


21. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Struggle for God
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Tunis


22. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
Abu Dhabi
Moderate view
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
The Arab world is made up of all the countries where Arabic is the national language. The Muslim world does not exist. The Middle East is a political and geographical area East of Europe that includes Turkey - Iran - Israel - Afghanistan - and Pakist


23. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Doha
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.


24. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
Sufism
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Immoderate view
Abu Dhabi


25. Hadiths

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26. Muezzin
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Sana
the performer of adhan
1) Hanafi - Arab Middle East and South Asia 2) Hanbali - Saudi Arabia 3) Maliki - North - Central - and West Africa 4) Shafi'i - North - Central - and West Africa


27. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
20-25%
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Immoderate view
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.


28. Jahiliyya is a historical period of the Arabia that preceded the rise of Islam - a sort of Arabian 'antiquity' - characterized by polytheism - the nomad or Bedouin style of life- preponderant in the Peninsula at that time- and the 'fervent tribalism
Tripoli
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Immoderate view
Laic - purely historical


29. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Sufism
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Joseph


30. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Amman
Manama


31. Shari'a

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32. Algeria
Algiers
Muslim call to prayer
The center of worship in Mecca that the houses the black stone. Pagans use to worship there - and now Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca.
Beirut


33. What is Tribal Solidarity?
The center of worship in Mecca that the houses the black stone. Pagans use to worship there - and now Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca.
The land between the two rivers - the Tigris and the Euphrates. The first civilization - and home to the kingdoms of Sumeria - Assyria - Akkadia - and Babylonia.
Moderate view
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.


34. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
to recite
The land between the two rivers - the Tigris and the Euphrates. The first civilization - and home to the kingdoms of Sumeria - Assyria - Akkadia - and Babylonia.
Djibouti
Dhikr


35. Qatar
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Doha
Amman
Tripoli


36. Kuwait
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Arabian monotheism
The legal system in Islam was formed progressively - by the contribution of religious scholars called 'ulamaa' - 'An organized Muslim judiciary became established only after Mu'awiya seized the caliphate in 661
Kuwait City


37. What is Petra?
Tariiqa
Beirut
Ritual prayer is done 5 times a day at a specific time facing the direction of Mecca. It is a must for all Muslims to do it if they are clean - Supplication is a prayer that you can do at any time and does not have to be in Arabic. It is a personal p
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.


38. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
Beirut
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
114
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.


39. Hanifiyya
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Arabian monotheism
Djibouti


40. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
Moderate view
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.


41. Bahrain
Manama
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Damascus
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part


42. The contemplative - esoteric and mystical form of worship in Islam that ultimately aims at opening for the Sufi the ways of communion with God at the spiritual and emotional levels.
Sufism
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Abu Dhabi
Mustasawwif


43. The Arab Parliament was created:
Nouakchott
2001 - Amman
1) Hanafi - Arab Middle East and South Asia 2) Hanbali - Saudi Arabia 3) Maliki - North - Central - and West Africa 4) Shafi'i - North - Central - and West Africa
63


44. Distinction between 'ritual prayer' (salat) and 'supplication (du'aa') in Islam:
Moderate view
Ritual prayer is done 5 times a day at a specific time facing the direction of Mecca. It is a must for all Muslims to do it if they are clean - Supplication is a prayer that you can do at any time and does not have to be in Arabic. It is a personal p
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
to recite


45. Morocco
Rabat
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
The Suspended Odes. - The master pieces of the Pre-Islamic poetry composed in Classical Arabic - by the most famous poets of Arabia - in the 6th century AD before the birth of the Islam (and the Revelation of the Qur'anic text).


46. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
The center of worship in Mecca that the houses the black stone. Pagans use to worship there - and now Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca.
Muslim call to prayer


47. Iraq
Beirut
Baghdad
Khartoum
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.


48. What age was Muhammed when he died?
Muslim call to prayer
63
Doha
20-25%


49. The 4 major schools of Shari'a in Sunni Islam and their political geographical distribution

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50. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Tariiqa
The center of worship in Mecca that the houses the black stone. Pagans use to worship there - and now Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca.
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.