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Arab Culture

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1. Tunisia
Tunis
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
Mustasawwif

2. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
Moderate view
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).
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

3. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
2001 - Amman
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Sana
114

4. Distinction between 'ritual prayer' (salat) and 'supplication (du'aa') in Islam:
Mogadishu
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
20-25%
Moderate view

5. What is the Kaaba?
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Abu Dhabi
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.
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

6. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
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.
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions

7. Who are the Shiites?
Damascus
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.
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
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

8. Hadiths

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9. Sudan
Mustasawwif
Algiers
Tunis
Khartoum

10. Egypt
Joseph
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
Cairo
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.

11. The two holly days unanimously recognized (by both Sunni and Shi'i Islam) are:
Kuwait City
2001 - Amman
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
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. United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi
Racial Islamist view
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Kuwait City

13. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
Khartoum
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Muscat

14. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
22
Tariiqa
Damascus
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

15. 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.
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Mustasawwif
Arab league members
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

16. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
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 sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
22

17. Oman
Muscat
20-25%
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Djibouti

18. Muezzin
the performer of adhan
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Laic - purely historical
Abu Dhabi

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

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

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21. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Amman
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.

22. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
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 most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Sana

23. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
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'.

24. Qatar
Dhikr
Rabat
Moderate view
Doha

25. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
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)
Algiers
Beirut
20-25%

26. Adhan
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
Rabat
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Muslim call to prayer

27. 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
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Laic - purely historical
Manama
20-25%

28. What is Mesopotamia?
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Amman
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.

29. Bahrain
Manama
Arabian monotheism
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Dhikr

30. Who is the Original Arab?
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
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).
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
The Bedouin

31. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
Tripoli
Khartoum
Mustasawwif
63

32. The Arab Parliament was created:
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
2001 - Amman
Immoderate view
Riyadh

33. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Moderate view
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Tariiqa

34. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
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
Sana
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam

35. 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 first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Sufism
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Mogadishu

36. Yemen
The Bedouin
Moderate 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)
Sana

37. Libya
Tripoli
Amman
Arabian monotheism
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions

38. What is the Hijra?
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
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.
2001 - Amman
the performer of adhan

39. Hanifiyya
Abu Dhabi
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Damascus
Arabian monotheism

40. What is the Sunna?
Tunis
2001 - Amman
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
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)

41. What is Pan-Arabism?
Laic - purely historical
Arab league members
Tunis
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.

42. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

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43. What is Petra?
Sufism
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Mogadishu
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.

44. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
Joseph
Dhikr
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Beirut

45. Somalia
Joseph
Baghdad
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Mogadishu

46. 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: .....
Baghdad
Racial Islamist view
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
to recite

47. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
Laic - purely historical
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Cairo
22

48. Morocco
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
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
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)
Rabat

49. Syria
Racial Islamist view
Damascus
Djibouti
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry

50. Mauritania
Nouakchott
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
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).