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Arab Culture

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1. What is the Hijra?
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.
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Tripoli

2. 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
Riyadh
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.

3. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Muscat
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
Mustasawwif

4. United Arab Emirates
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Abu Dhabi
20-25%

5. The Arab Parliament was created:
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.
2001 - Amman
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Beirut

6. Algeria
Algiers
Tunis
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.
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

7. Hanifiyya
Arabian monotheism
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
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Khartoum

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

9. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Abu Dhabi
Beirut
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam

10. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
Doha
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
Kuwait City

11. Egypt
Khartoum
Cairo
Algiers
The Bedouin

12. What is the Kaaba?
Mustasawwif
Damascus
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.
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. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

14. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.

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

16. Somalia
Cairo
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Tunis
Mogadishu

17. Adhan
Mustasawwif
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).
Muslim call to prayer

18. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Tariiqa
Struggle for God
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity

19. Who are the Shiites?
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Baghdad

20. 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: .....
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
22
Abu Dhabi
Racial Islamist view

21. What is Petra?
Abu Dhabi
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.

22. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
to recite
Baghdad
Tripoli
Moderate view

23. Djibouti
Riyadh
Djibouti
Rabat
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.

24. 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
Khartoum
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Laic - purely historical
Manama

25. Lebanon
Cairo
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Beirut
Tripoli

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

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

28. What age was Muhammed when he died?
63
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.
Immoderate view
Laic - purely historical

29. Kuwait
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
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
Kuwait City

30. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
114
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah

31. Distinction between 'ritual prayer' (salat) and 'supplication (du'aa') in Islam:
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).
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
63
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad

32. Saudi Arabia
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Riyadh
Dhikr
Djibouti

33. What is the Sunna?
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
63
Khartoum

34. The two holly days unanimously recognized (by both Sunni and Shi'i Islam) are:
Immoderate view
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).
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Kuwait City

35. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Tunis
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
20-25%

36. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
Dhikr
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.

37. Syria
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Damascus
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.

38. Morocco
Racial Islamist view
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Rabat
to recite

39. Adab

40. Hadiths

41. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
Joseph
Dhikr
22
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry

42. Bahrain
114
2001 - Amman
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Manama

43. What is Tribal Solidarity?
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Laic - purely historical
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
The Bedouin

44. Yemen
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
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).
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

45. Libya
Muslim call to prayer
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Tripoli
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.

46. Jordan
Baghdad
Laic - purely historical
Amman
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. Shari'a

48. Mauritania
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
20-25%
Rabat
Nouakchott

49. What is Mesopotamia?
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
to recite
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
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.

50. Oman
Muscat
Beirut
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
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam