Arab Culture

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1. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
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
Khartoum
Tariiqa


2. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
2001 - Amman
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Laic - purely historical
22


3. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
Struggle for God
2001 - Amman
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
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


4. Bahrain
Muscat
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Manama
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.


5. What age was Muhammed when he died?
to recite
63
Beirut
20-25%


6. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
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.
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Dhikr
Amman


7. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
to recite
Djibouti
Sana
Sufism


8. 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
Laic - purely historical
to recite
Algiers
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity


9. 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: .....
to recite
Abu Dhabi
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Racial Islamist view


10. What is Pan-Arabism?
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Sana
Struggle for God


11. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Dhikr
Mogadishu
Tripoli


12. Who is the Original Arab?
The Bedouin
2001 - Amman
Cairo
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah


13. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
Kuwait City
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
20-25%
114


14. Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Nouakchott


15. Who are the Shiites?
Arabian monotheism
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Cairo
Doha


16. 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.....
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
114
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Immoderate view


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


18. What is the Kaaba?
Sana
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
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.
Doha


19. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Nouakchott
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Laic - purely historical


20. Mauritania
Nouakchott
Algiers
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
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.


21. An ideal of male beauty in Islam
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Joseph
Sufism
Khartoum


22. Algeria
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Algiers
Damascus


23. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Sana
63
Abu Dhabi
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity


24. Djibouti
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).
Djibouti
22
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry


25. Somalia
Sana
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Manama
Mogadishu


26. Adab

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27. Sudan
The Bedouin
114
2001 - Amman
Khartoum


28. Yemen
Sana
Rabat
Doha
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


29. United Arab Emirates
Amman
Abu Dhabi
Tunis
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.


30. The Arab Parliament was created:
2001 - Amman
Moderate view
Khartoum
Tripoli


31. What is the Hijra?
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 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
Djibouti
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.


32. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Beirut
Mustasawwif
Moderate view


33. What is Mesopotamia?
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
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.


34. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
Kuwait City
Sufism
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
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah


35. Qatar
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
114
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Doha


36. Hadiths

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

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38. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
63
the performer of adhan
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.


39. What is the Sunna?
Moderate view
Muslim call to prayer
Abu Dhabi
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.


40. Tunisia
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
20-25%
Immoderate view
Tunis


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

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42. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Sana
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Tripoli


43. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
Amman
Algiers
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collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman


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

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45. Who are the Nabatians?
2001 - Amman
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Arabian monotheism
Tariiqa


46. Egypt
Cairo
Mustasawwif
Damascus
Struggle for God


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.
Sufism
Racial Islamist view
Muscat
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad


48. Morocco
Rabat
Tariiqa
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


49. What is Tribal Solidarity?
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
Muscat
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
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)


50. Oman
Tunis
Damascus
Muscat
Tripoli