Arab Culture

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1. Syria
Damascus
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).
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions


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

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3. Lebanon
Doha
Beirut
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Baghdad


4. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
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.


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

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6. Morocco
Tripoli
Rabat
Laic - purely historical
63


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

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8. Algeria
Baghdad
Moderate view
Algiers
Laic - purely historical


9. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Joseph


10. Hanifiyya
Arab league members
Arabian monotheism
Baghdad
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. Tunisia
Joseph
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
Tunis
Riyadh


12. The two holly days unanimously recognized (by both Sunni and Shi'i Islam) are:
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.
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam


13. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
Immoderate view
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Mustasawwif


14. Qatar
Doha
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
The Bedouin


15. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
22
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Algiers
Amman


16. 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.
Racial Islamist view
Arab league members
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of 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


17. 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
Baghdad
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.


18. Bahrain
Sana
the performer of adhan
Manama
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part


19. Hadiths

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20. 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: .....
Joseph
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).
Racial Islamist view
114


21. Saudi Arabia
Rabat
Dhikr
The Bedouin
Riyadh


22. What age was Muhammed when he died?
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
63
Mustasawwif
Manama


23. Jordan
Amman
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
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.


24. Sudan
Tunis
Khartoum
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Rabat


25. What is the Sunna?
Damascus
Muscat
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
22


26. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
to recite
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
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.
Tripoli


27. Yemen
Sana
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
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)
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity


28. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Khartoum
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.


29. What is Tribal Solidarity?
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Struggle for God
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Sana


30. 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.....
Immoderate view
The Bedouin
Tunis
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah


31. Egypt
Kuwait City
Cairo
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).
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.


32. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
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.
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Amman
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.


33. 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.
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Tariiqa


34. Libya
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Tripoli
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.


35. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Doha
Sana


36. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
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


37. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

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38. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
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
20-25%
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.


39. Iraq
Mogadishu
Joseph
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.
Baghdad


40. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
20-25%
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Amman


41. 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
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Kuwait City
Damascus


42. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
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
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)
Racial Islamist view


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

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44. Adab

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45. What is Petra?
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Laic - purely historical
to recite
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


46. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
Tariiqa
Doha
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
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


47. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Racial Islamist view
Amman
Mustasawwif


48. Who is the Original Arab?
The Bedouin
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Joseph
114


49. Shari'a

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50. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
20-25%
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Doha