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1. Egypt
Immoderate view
Cairo
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
to recite


2. Tunisia
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
Khartoum
Tunis


3. United Arab Emirates
Racial Islamist view
to recite
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Abu Dhabi


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

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5. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
Rabat
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
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down


6. Yemen
Sana
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)
Manama
Doha


7. What is Petra?
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.
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
Arab league members
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.


8. Adhan
the performer of adhan
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Muslim call to prayer


9. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Tariiqa
Doha


10. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
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


11. Iraq
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 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
Baghdad
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


12. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Arab league members
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 most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.


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

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14. 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
Kuwait City
Laic - purely historical
22


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.
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)
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Manama
Arab league members


16. Mauritania
Cairo
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.
Nouakchott
Mustasawwif


17. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
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)
Mustasawwif
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
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


18. What is the Sunna?
63
Tripoli
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.


19. Sudan
Cairo
Khartoum
Arab league members
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


20. 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 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.
Kuwait City
Sana
Immoderate view


21. 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
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)
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Khartoum


22. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
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).
20-25%
Sana


23. Somalia
114
Mogadishu
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.


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

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25. Shari'a

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26. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
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
Doha
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


27. Hadiths

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28. Syria
Damascus
Beirut
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.
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.


29. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
Dhikr
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
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
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.


30. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
22
Sufism
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Moderate view


31. What is Tribal Solidarity?
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Tripoli
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
Arabian monotheism


32. Kuwait
Kuwait City
Sufism
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


33. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
to recite
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


34. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
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
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Struggle for God
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.


35. Who are the Shiites?
114
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Immoderate view


36. Qatar
22
Doha
20-25%
114


37. 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.
63
Arab league members
Immoderate view


38. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
Immoderate view
Riyadh
Beirut
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman


39. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
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.
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Damascus


40. The two holly days unanimously recognized (by both Sunni and Shi'i Islam) are:
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
Khartoum
Moderate view


41. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

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42. Hanifiyya
Doha
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)
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Arabian monotheism


43. What age was Muhammed when he died?
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) 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)
Arab league members
63


44. Distinction between 'ritual prayer' (salat) and 'supplication (du'aa') in Islam:
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
63
The Bedouin
the performer of adhan


45. What is the Kaaba?
Joseph
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
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.
Kuwait City


46. Oman
to recite
Baghdad
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Muscat


47. What is the Hijra?
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.
20-25%
Muscat
Joseph


48. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Racial Islamist view
22
Laic - purely historical


49. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
to recite
Beirut
Djibouti
Cairo


50. Djibouti
Djibouti
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Muslim call to prayer
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.