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Arab Culture

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1. What is the Hijra?
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.
Mustasawwif
2001 - Amman

2. Oman
Muscat
20-25%
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
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.

3. Sudan
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 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.
Dhikr
Khartoum

4. Tunisia
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Abu Dhabi
Tunis
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

5. 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.
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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)
Amman

6. Kuwait
The Bedouin
Manama
Kuwait City
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.

7. What is the Kaaba?
Sufism
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Dhikr
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.

8. Qatar
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Doha
Manama
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam

9. The two holly days unanimously recognized (by both Sunni and Shi'i Islam) are:
the performer of adhan
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
Sana
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

10. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
Tariiqa
Manama
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

11. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
Arabian monotheism
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Tripoli
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.

12. 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.
Sufism
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
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Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

13. Who are the Shiites?
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.
Manama
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.

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

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15. Iraq
Manama
Baghdad
Moderate view
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. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Khartoum
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

17. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
the performer of adhan
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam

18. What age was Muhammed when he died?
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
63
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
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)

19. Libya
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.
Tripoli
Moderate view

20. 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
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Tariiqa
the performer of adhan

21. Lebanon
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Beirut
2001 - Amman
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

22. Hadiths

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23. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
Amman
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Laic - purely historical
22

24. Jordan
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Amman
Dhikr
the performer of adhan

25. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
Sana
20-25%
Algiers
Arab league members

26. United Arab Emirates
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
Abu Dhabi
Khartoum
2001 - Amman

27. Who are the Nabatians?
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
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).
Damascus
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.

28. What is Tribal Solidarity?
Damascus
Moderate view
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
2001 - Amman

29. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
Algiers
Rabat
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.

30. Adhan
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
Nouakchott
Riyadh
Muslim call to prayer

31. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
Sana
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
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. Saudi Arabia
20-25%
22
Beirut
Riyadh

33. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Laic - purely historical
Manama
114

34. What is Petra?
114
Damascus
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Rabat

35. Algeria
Algiers
Riyadh
Muslim call to prayer
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down

36. Mauritania
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Nouakchott

37. 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
Baghdad
Laic - purely historical
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

38. 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
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
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)

39. What is Pan-Arabism?
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
114
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

40. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
Riyadh
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Tunis
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

41. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

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42. The Arab Parliament was created:
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
2001 - Amman
Kuwait City
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.

43. Djibouti
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Djibouti
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
Mustasawwif

44. Egypt
20-25%
Cairo
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Immoderate view

45. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
to recite
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.
Djibouti
Baghdad

46. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
The Bedouin
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

47. 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.....
Arab league members
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Immoderate 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)

48. Who is the Original Arab?
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
The Bedouin
Muslim call to prayer
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

49. Syria
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Sufism
Damascus
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.

50. 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: .....
Muslim call to prayer
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.
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.