Arab Culture

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1. Oman
Mustasawwif
Muscat
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
63


2. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

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

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4. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
20-25%
Manama
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith


5. Egypt
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Cairo
22
Joseph


6. 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.....
Djibouti
Immoderate view
Sana
Arabian monotheism


7. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
63
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
20-25%
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. Bahrain
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Doha
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Manama


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

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10. The Arab Parliament was created:
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
Sufism
2001 - Amman


11. Iraq
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.
the performer of adhan
Baghdad
Amman


12. 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.
Tunis
The Bedouin
Muscat


13. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
22
Muscat
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


14. 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
Tunis
Laic - purely historical
114
Manama


15. Adhan
Muscat
the performer of adhan
Cairo
Muslim call to prayer


16. What is the Kaaba?
Djibouti
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 Muslim sect that follows Ali.
63


17. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
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
Mogadishu
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
63


18. Syria
Damascus
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Kuwait City
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.


19. What is the Hijra?
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
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.


20. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
20-25%
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Beirut
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.


21. Yemen
Manama
Sana
Amman
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.


22. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
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).
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


23. Qatar
Moderate view
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Doha
Nouakchott


24. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
Khartoum
2001 - Amman
Moderate view
Muscat


25. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
Damascus
Immoderate view
Rabat
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad


26. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
to recite
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Arab league members


27. Somalia
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Mogadishu


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

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29. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
Tariiqa
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
63
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam


30. Kuwait
Mustasawwif
2001 - Amman
Kuwait City
Dhikr


31. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
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)
Arabian monotheism
63


32. Shari'a

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33. The two holly days unanimously recognized (by both Sunni and Shi'i Islam) are:
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Baghdad
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Djibouti


34. 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: .....
Laic - purely historical
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Racial Islamist view
Arab league members


35. 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
Arabian monotheism
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.
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry


36. Hanifiyya
Rabat
Arabian monotheism
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


37. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
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
Rabat
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.


38. 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.
Amman
Doha
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).


39. Muezzin
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
Muscat
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry


40. Morocco
Muslim call to prayer
Baghdad
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Rabat


41. 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.
Rabat
Baghdad
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down


42. Distinction between 'ritual prayer' (salat) and 'supplication (du'aa') in Islam:
Riyadh
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 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).
Laic - purely historical


43. Mauritania
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.
Mustasawwif
Struggle for God
Nouakchott


44. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
The Bedouin
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Arabian monotheism
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity


45. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
Mogadishu
114
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Rabat


46. Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
63
Manama
22


47. United Arab Emirates
Tripoli
Abu Dhabi
2001 - Amman
Joseph


48. Algeria
the performer of adhan
Muslim call to prayer
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Algiers


49. Tunisia
Laic - purely historical
Muslim call to prayer
Tunis
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


50. Djibouti
Djibouti
Beirut
Muscat
Tariiqa