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1. What age was Muhammed when he died?
2001 - Amman
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).
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
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2. 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.
Sana
Arab league members
22
114

3. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

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

5. Lebanon
Beirut
Racial Islamist view
Khartoum
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.

6. What is the Kaaba?
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.
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 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.
Beirut

7. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
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).
Tripoli
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Riyadh

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

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

10. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
Beirut
Dhikr
22
Doha

11. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
Moderate view
Mogadishu
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
20-25%

12. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
Dhikr
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Racial Islamist view
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

13. 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.
Mogadishu
Muslim call to prayer
Sana

14. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
The Bedouin
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

15. 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
Muslim call to prayer
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Muscat

16. Oman
to recite
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Muscat
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.

17. 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.
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Damascus
Algiers

18. Tunisia
Joseph
Tunis
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.
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah

19. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
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Amman
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

20. 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
Beirut
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
2001 - Amman

21. Egypt
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Arab league members
Cairo
Racial Islamist view

22. 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
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Rabat
Beirut

23. What is Tribal Solidarity?
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)
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.
Muslim call to prayer

24. Yemen
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
Manama
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.

25. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
Muslim call to prayer
Abu Dhabi
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
to recite

26. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Dhikr
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Moderate view

27. Who are the Nabatians?
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).
Muscat
Sana
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.

28. Muezzin
Tripoli
2001 - Amman
the performer of adhan
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

29. United Arab Emirates
Joseph
Abu Dhabi
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Sana

30. Hanifiyya
Amman
Arabian monotheism
to recite
Khartoum

31. Qatar
Immoderate view
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Doha
Tunis

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

33. Mauritania
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Racial Islamist view
Nouakchott

34. An ideal of male beauty in Islam
Joseph
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Muscat
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam

35. Sudan
2001 - Amman
Khartoum
Manama
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36. Morocco
Rabat
Amman
Khartoum
Muslim call to prayer

37. Who are the Shiites?
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Moderate view
the performer of adhan
Khartoum

38. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
to recite
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Muslim call to prayer

39. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
Nouakchott
Muscat
Muslim call to prayer
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad

40. What is Petra?
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
22
Immoderate view
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.

41. Syria
Moderate view
Mustasawwif
Damascus
Doha

42. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
Racial Islamist view
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam

43. What is the Sunna?
Baghdad
Muslim call to prayer
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.

44. 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: .....
The Bedouin
Racial Islamist view
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Algiers

45. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Amman

46. Saudi Arabia
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Riyadh
Sana
Muslim call to prayer

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

48. Who is the Original Arab?
2001 - Amman
The Bedouin
Arab league members
Arabian monotheism

49. 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
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Sana

50. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
Tunis
Struggle for God
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.