Arab Culture

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1. 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.
Beirut
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
22


2. 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.
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).
Moderate view
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Sufism


3. Jordan
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Beirut
Amman


4. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
Tripoli
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Tariiqa
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.


5. Who are the Shiites?
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.
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Racial Islamist view


6. Adhan
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Muslim call to prayer
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman


7. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
Rabat
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
to recite
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


8. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
Tariiqa
Moderate view
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
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


9. Bahrain
Manama
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Djibouti


10. What is Petra?
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
Khartoum
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.


11. Hanifiyya
2001 - Amman
Moderate view
Arabian monotheism
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


12. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
20-25%
Immoderate view
Doha
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.


13. Iraq
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Doha
Kuwait City
Baghdad


14. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
Struggle for God
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Baghdad
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.


15. Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
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).
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam


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

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17. Oman
Racial Islamist view
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
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.
Muscat


18. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
Struggle for God
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Kuwait City
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah


19. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
The Bedouin
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
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Beirut


20. Shari'a

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21. Hadiths

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22. Mauritania
Struggle for God
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Baghdad
Nouakchott


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

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24. Somalia
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Struggle for God
Mogadishu
Nouakchott


25. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Djibouti
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend 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).


26. The two holly days unanimously recognized (by both Sunni and Shi'i Islam) are:
Dhikr
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Abu Dhabi
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)


27. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Kuwait City
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Dhikr


28. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
Sana
Dhikr
Racial Islamist view
Mogadishu


29. 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
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Baghdad
Joseph


30. What is the Kaaba?
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Manama
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 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.


31. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
Amman
Arab league members
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad


32. An ideal of male beauty in Islam
Muscat
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Joseph


33. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
Joseph
Mustasawwif
22
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)


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

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35. 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.....
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Racial Islamist view
Immoderate view
Mustasawwif


36. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
Baghdad
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
Damascus
Moderate view


37. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
Tripoli
Struggle for God
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 sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.


38. Yemen
Sana
Moderate view
The Bedouin
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part


39. United Arab Emirates
Rabat
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Abu Dhabi
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.


40. What is the Sunna?
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
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.
Sana


41. What is the Hijra?
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
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.
Amman
22


42. Qatar
Doha
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.
Immoderate view
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.


43. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

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44. Egypt
Struggle for God
2001 - Amman
Cairo
Algiers


45. Djibouti
Abu Dhabi
Djibouti
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
Riyadh


46. Lebanon
Sufism
Djibouti
Damascus
Beirut


47. Who are the Nabatians?
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Laic - purely historical
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam


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


49. Algeria
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)
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Algiers
Mustasawwif


50. 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
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
Laic - purely historical
Dhikr
Sufism