Arab Culture

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1. What is Pan-Arabism?
Joseph
22
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions


2. Lebanon
Damascus
Riyadh
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.
Beirut


3. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
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).
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
63


4. Bahrain
Manama
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.
Immoderate view
Kuwait City


5. Qatar
Doha
Muslim call to prayer
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry


6. What is the Kaaba?
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
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.


7. Shari'a

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8. 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.
The Bedouin
Damascus
Djibouti


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

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10. Libya
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Amman
Tripoli


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

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12. Adab

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13. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
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.
Khartoum
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
22


14. Adhan
Beirut
Muslim call to prayer
Kuwait City
Amman


15. Morocco
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Beirut
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Rabat


16. Distinction between 'ritual prayer' (salat) and 'supplication (du'aa') in Islam:
Arabian monotheism
Damascus
Rabat
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


17. What is Petra?
Moderate view
Algiers
the performer of adhan
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.


18. 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 land between the two rivers - the Tigris and the Euphrates. The first civilization - and home to the kingdoms of Sumeria - Assyria - Akkadia - and Babylonia.
Joseph
Sufism
Racial Islamist view


19. Algeria
Algiers
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Doha


20. Djibouti
Algiers
Djibouti
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part


21. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Amman
Mustasawwif


22. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
Rabat
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 Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.


23. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
Riyadh
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
Sufism


24. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
the performer of adhan
Joseph
Immoderate view


25. Syria
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Damascus
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
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.


26. Somalia
Mogadishu
Laic - purely historical
Cairo
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


27. 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 most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Arab league members
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.


28. Tunisia
Tunis
Beirut
Nouakchott
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.


29. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Amman
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Nouakchott


30. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
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
Algiers
Muscat


31. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
Arab league members
Manama
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.
Moderate view


32. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
Djibouti
Tripoli
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam


33. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
Abu Dhabi
The Bedouin
Mustasawwif
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith


34. Saudi Arabia
Damascus
Riyadh
Baghdad
Tripoli


35. Sudan
Khartoum
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.
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Arabian monotheism


36. Egypt
Mogadishu
Tunis
Cairo
Joseph


37. Muezzin
the performer of adhan
Khartoum
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.


38. 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.....
Immoderate view
Mogadishu
Damascus
Dhikr


39. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
Riyadh
Algiers
Tariiqa
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)


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

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41. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
Mogadishu
114
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry


42. 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.
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Arabian monotheism
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).
Sufism


43. Who is the Original Arab?
The Bedouin
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Arabian monotheism


44. Yemen
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Arabian monotheism
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Sana


45. 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
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
Laic - purely historical
The Bedouin
Arab league members


46. 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
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
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.


47. Kuwait
Kuwait City
Dhikr
Moderate view
Beirut


48. What is the Hijra?
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
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
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.


49. 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.
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
20-25%
the performer of adhan


50. Iraq
Baghdad
Nouakchott
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Tariiqa