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1. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
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Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
20-25%
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

2. What is Petra?
Struggle for God
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Manama
the performer of adhan

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

4. Syria
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Damascus
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
Beirut

5. An ideal of male beauty in Islam
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Joseph
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
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)

6. What age was Muhammed when he died?
Arabian monotheism
Amman
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collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman

7. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
114
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Tripoli
Tariiqa

8. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
Khartoum
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
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman

9. 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
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Muslim call to prayer

10. Muezzin
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
the performer of adhan
Kuwait City
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry

11. Adab

12. Adhan
The Bedouin
Muslim call to prayer
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).
Cairo

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

14. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Moderate view
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.
22

15. Who are the Nabatians?
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 first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Arab league members
Muslim call to prayer

16. Tunisia
Doha
Kuwait City
Tunis
63

17. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Mogadishu
Dhikr
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part

18. United Arab Emirates
2001 - Amman
Abu Dhabi
Beirut
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.

19. Mauritania
The Bedouin
Cairo
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Nouakchott

20. Algeria
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Immoderate view
Algiers

21. Somalia
Sufism
Mogadishu
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Muscat

22. Who are the Shiites?
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Muscat
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Arabian monotheism

23. 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.
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Arabian monotheism
Arab league members
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part

24. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Cairo
The Bedouin
Abu Dhabi
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity

25. Shari'a

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

27. Saudi Arabia
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
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
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.

28. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
Muslim call to prayer
Nouakchott
Tunis
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah

29. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
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).
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)
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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.

30. 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.
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Sufism
to recite

31. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
Mustasawwif
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Damascus
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

32. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

33. Kuwait
Riyadh
Arab league members
the performer of adhan
Kuwait City

34. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Baghdad
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Amman

35. What is the Sunna?
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Racial Islamist view
2001 - Amman
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.

36. The Arab Parliament was created:
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
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 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
2001 - Amman

37. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Beirut
20-25%
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down

38. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
22
Tariiqa
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Arab league members

39. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
Arab league members
Struggle for God
Riyadh
Baghdad

40. Lebanon
22
Muscat
Beirut
Rabat

41. 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: .....
Racial Islamist view
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
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)
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

42. The two holly days unanimously recognized (by both Sunni and Shi'i Islam) are:
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
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
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
Moderate view

43. Djibouti
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Algiers
Immoderate view
Djibouti

44. Sudan
Khartoum
Manama
22
Mogadishu

45. Libya
Tripoli
Sana
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
The Bedouin

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

47. Hanifiyya
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Joseph
Arabian monotheism
Dhikr

48. 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.
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Struggle for God
Tripoli

49. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
Rabat
Sana
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down

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