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Arab Culture
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1. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
Khartoum
Struggle for God
Nouakchott
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
2. 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.
Muscat
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 most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
3. Kuwait
Kuwait City
Racial Islamist view
Struggle for God
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
4. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
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
Algiers
Rabat
5. Djibouti
Damascus
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
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
Djibouti
6. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
63
22
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
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.
7. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
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
to recite
Riyadh
Beirut
8. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Muslim call to prayer
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
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
9. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
The Bedouin
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
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
Moderate view
10. Who are the Shiites?
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
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 Bedouin
Manama
11. Adab
12. Yemen
Sana
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).
Tariiqa
Dhikr
13. What is the Kaaba?
Tariiqa
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Nouakchott
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.
14. What are the 'Five Pillars of Islam'?
15. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
Khartoum
Muscat
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
The Bedouin
16. Morocco
to recite
Rabat
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
Struggle for God
17. Iraq
Baghdad
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
Joseph
18. Oman
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).
2001 - Amman
Doha
Muscat
19. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Damascus
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Racial Islamist view
20. United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi
Mustasawwif
20-25%
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
21. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Beirut
Dhikr
Cairo
22. Distinction between 'ritual prayer' (salat) and 'supplication (du'aa') in Islam:
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.
Amman
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
Laic - purely historical
23. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Doha
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
Mustasawwif
24. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Struggle for God
Dhikr
Algiers
25. What does the term 'Mu'allqates' mean?
26. 'Lawrence of Arabia's most famous book is entitled.....and speaks about....'
27. Syria
Struggle for God
the performer of adhan
Damascus
Laic - purely historical
28. Bahrain
Manama
Sufism
Kuwait City
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
29. Saudi Arabia
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Tripoli
Riyadh
Abu Dhabi
30. 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
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
the performer of adhan
Laic - purely historical
Arab league members
31. 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.
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Joseph
Sana
32. Tunisia
Doha
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Tunis
33. Libya
Tripoli
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Baghdad
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
34. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'
35. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Mustasawwif
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
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
36. Sudan
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Nouakchott
Khartoum
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
37. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Tariiqa
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)
to recite
38. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
20-25%
114
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
39. Hadiths
40. The 4 major schools of Shari'a in Sunni Islam and their political geographical distribution
41. Adhan
Tariiqa
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.
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
42. An ideal of male beauty in 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)
Joseph
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
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
43. Who is the Original Arab?
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
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
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 Bedouin
44. What is Pan-Arabism?
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Struggle for God
Arab league members
45. Shari'a
46. 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 Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Cairo
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Immoderate view
47. Muezzin
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.
Khartoum
Damascus
48. 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.
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Immoderate view
Sufism
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).
49. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
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
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
50. What is Petra?
Baghdad
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Dhikr
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part