Arab Culture

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1. Who are the Shiites?
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Muscat
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).
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.


2. What is Tribal Solidarity?
Tunis
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.


3. Somalia
Mogadishu
Beirut
Kuwait City
Doha


4. What is Pan-Arabism?
Algiers
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Manama


5. 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
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
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.
Laic - purely historical


6. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
Beirut
Joseph
the performer of adhan
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.


7. 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.
20-25%
Nouakchott
Amman
Arab league members


8. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
Tripoli
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
Struggle for God
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).


9. Jordan
Cairo
Mustasawwif
Racial Islamist view
Amman


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

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11. Syria
Damascus
The Bedouin
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.


12. An ideal of male beauty in Islam
Arabian monotheism
Mogadishu
Joseph
22


13. Saudi Arabia
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Riyadh
Tripoli
Muslim call to prayer


14. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
Beirut
Tunis
Tariiqa
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.


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


16. 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.
Laic - purely historical
Struggle for God
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 does the term 'Mu'allqates' mean?

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18. Djibouti
Djibouti
Cairo
Riyadh
Nouakchott


19. Lebanon
Beirut
Khartoum
Racial Islamist view
Baghdad


20. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Khartoum


21. Muezzin
Sufism
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 performer of adhan
Moderate view


22. Yemen
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.
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Nouakchott
Sana


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

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24. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
Manama
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Algiers
Mustasawwif


25. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
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)
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Dhikr


26. Algeria
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Algiers
Tripoli
Kuwait City


27. Mauritania
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
Nouakchott
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.


28. Morocco
Sufism
Rabat
63
Baghdad


29. The Arab Parliament was created:
Abu Dhabi
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
The Bedouin
2001 - Amman


30. What is the Kaaba?
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
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Abu Dhabi
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.


31. What age was Muhammed when he died?
Abu Dhabi
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
63
Cairo


32. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Mustasawwif
the performer of adhan
Moderate view
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity


33. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
2001 - Amman
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
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


34. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Damascus
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Baghdad


35. Kuwait
Mustasawwif
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
Muslim call to prayer
Kuwait City


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

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37. Adhan
Muslim call to prayer
Joseph
Nouakchott
The Bedouin


38. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
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'.
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.


39. Who are the Nabatians?
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Beirut
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.


40. What is the Sunna?
Struggle for God
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Tariiqa


41. 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
Tripoli
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
Moderate view


42. What is the Hijra?
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
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.
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad


43. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
Arab league members
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
to recite
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


44. Hadiths

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45. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
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
Kuwait City
Dhikr


46. Iraq
Beirut
Amman
Baghdad
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


47. Tunisia
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)
Tunis
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
Arab league members


48. Sudan
Muslim call to prayer
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
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Khartoum


49. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Baghdad
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)
22


50. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
114
Doha
Arab league members