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Arab Culture

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1. Somalia
to recite
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Tripoli
Mogadishu

2. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
Sana
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
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.

3. Who is the Original Arab?
Damascus
Manama
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
The Bedouin

4. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
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 first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Tariiqa

5. Egypt
Rabat
to recite
Cairo
Immoderate view

6. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
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
The Bedouin
Abu Dhabi

7. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
Algiers
Manama
the performer of adhan
114

8. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
Nouakchott
Mustasawwif
Djibouti
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry

9. Saudi Arabia
Doha
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Riyadh

10. 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
Djibouti
114
Laic - purely historical
Dhikr

11. Syria
Tunis
Kuwait City
Damascus
Immoderate view

12. What is Mesopotamia?
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
Algiers
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.
Immoderate view

13. What is the Sunna?
Damascus
114
Mustasawwif
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.

14. Qatar
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.
Doha
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman

15. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
Arabian monotheism
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
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.

16. An ideal of male beauty in Islam
Kuwait City
Sufism
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Joseph

17. Djibouti
Djibouti
Laic - purely historical
to recite
Mustasawwif

18. What is the Kaaba?
the performer of adhan
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
Nouakchott

19. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
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).
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Khartoum

20. Hanifiyya
Mogadishu
Arabian monotheism
Racial Islamist view
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.

21. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
Dhikr
Tariiqa
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
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

22. Mauritania
Rabat
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Nouakchott
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.

23. 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: .....
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Laic - purely historical
Racial Islamist view

24. Libya
Laic - purely historical
Tripoli
Kuwait City
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry

25. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
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)
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Rabat
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part

26. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
2001 - Amman
Abu Dhabi
Manama
Dhikr

27. Muezzin
Beirut
22
the performer of adhan
Amman

28. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

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29. 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.
Tunis
20-25%
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Sufism

30. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
Doha
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.
Struggle for God
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.

31. Morocco
to recite
Rabat
Laic - purely historical
The Bedouin

32. Hadiths

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33. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
Doha
Tripoli
Arabian monotheism
22

34. Oman
Mogadishu
Nouakchott
Muscat
Mustasawwif

35. Shari'a

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36. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
20-25%
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
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

37. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
Manama
Beirut
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
63

38. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
to recite
Laic - purely historical
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah

39. What age was Muhammed when he died?
Immoderate view
63
Kuwait City
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

40. 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
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.
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down

41. Iraq
Tunis
Baghdad
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Struggle for God

42. United Arab Emirates
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 unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
The Bedouin
Abu Dhabi

43. 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.
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Sufism
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.

44. Adhan
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
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.
114

45. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
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 most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
22

46. 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.
Arab league members
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.

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

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48. Jordan
the performer of adhan
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Amman
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

49. Lebanon
Doha
Muslim call to prayer
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
Beirut

50. Kuwait
Kuwait City
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)
Beirut
Abu Dhabi