Arab Culture

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1. Sudan
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
Tripoli
Khartoum
Struggle for God


2. Iraq
Cairo
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Baghdad
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.


3. Who are the Nabatians?
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
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.
Riyadh


4. United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi
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.
20-25%
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah


5. 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.
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Arab league members
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
Manama


6. Morocco
Arabian monotheism
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Muslim call to prayer
Rabat


7. Distinction between 'ritual prayer' (salat) and 'supplication (du'aa') in Islam:
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).
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
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
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


8. Somalia
Abu Dhabi
Racial Islamist view
114
Mogadishu


9. What is Mesopotamia?
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.
Laic - purely historical
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
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


10. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
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
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
22


11. Tunisia
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Tariiqa
Abu Dhabi
Tunis


12. The Arab Parliament was created:
Riyadh
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
2001 - Amman
Doha


13. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Kuwait City
Manama
Mustasawwif


14. Egypt
Cairo
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.
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down


15. Muezzin
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Manama
Damascus
the performer of adhan


16. What age was Muhammed when he died?
Muslim call to prayer
63
Khartoum
Tariiqa


17. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
Sana
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
114
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.


18. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
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.
Dhikr
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
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.


19. What does the term 'Mu'allqates' mean?

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

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21. Mauritania
Tripoli
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
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Nouakchott


22. What is the Kaaba?
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Nouakchott
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.
Manama


23. What is Tribal Solidarity?
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Kuwait City
The Bedouin


24. Hadiths

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25. 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
1) Creed: Allah is the true God and Muhhhamad is his profit 2) Ritual Prayer: Praying 5 times a day at a specific time. Reciting a prayer in Arabic from Qur'an 3) The giving of alms 4) Fasting (Sawm): The fasting of Rammadhan. 5) Pilgrimage (Hajj)
Tripoli
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Laic - purely historical


26. Who is the Original Arab?
Dhikr
Muscat
2001 - Amman
The Bedouin


27. Jahiliyya is a state of 'barbarism' - of 'pagan ignorance and deprived of divine guidance' - the label which applies to any (non-Islamic) society in which God is not sovereign. Qualification: .....
Muscat
Immoderate view
Racial Islamist view
Rabat


28. Qatar
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.
Doha
Sufism
2001 - Amman


29. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
to recite
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Doha


30. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
63


31. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
Doha
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.
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
22


32. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
22
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam


33. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Arabian monotheism
Algiers


34. Lebanon
Muslim call to prayer
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Tariiqa
Beirut


35. Saudi Arabia
Tariiqa
Djibouti
Riyadh
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.


36. Shari'a

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37. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

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38. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
Laic - purely historical
Dhikr
20-25%
The Bedouin


39. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
Tariiqa
Dhikr
to recite
the performer of adhan


40. Bahrain
Immoderate view
Manama
Rabat
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.


41. Jahiliyya is the time when people were ignorant of the TRUE God's religion - of the true and unique 'Way' or 'Path' - that of Islam. Qualification.....
63
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).
Immoderate view
1) Creed: Allah is the true God and Muhhhamad is his profit 2) Ritual Prayer: Praying 5 times a day at a specific time. Reciting a prayer in Arabic from Qur'an 3) The giving of alms 4) Fasting (Sawm): The fasting of Rammadhan. 5) Pilgrimage (Hajj)


42. Oman
Muscat
Moderate view
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.


43. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
Struggle for God
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).
Arab league members
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.


44. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
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
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.


45. What is the Hijra?
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
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.
Khartoum
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


46. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
Muscat
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity


47. 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.
22
Algiers
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Sufism


48. Jordan
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
the performer of adhan
Amman
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.


49. An ideal of male beauty in Islam
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Joseph
22
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions


50. Adab

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