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Arab Culture

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1. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
Struggle for God
Moderate view
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Beirut

2. United Arab Emirates
Amman
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.
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

3. Libya
Immoderate view
Laic - purely historical
Riyadh
Tripoli

4. Who are the Shiites?
22
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)
the performer of adhan

5. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
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.

6. Hadiths

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.
to recite
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Arab league members

8. Muezzin
Mustasawwif
the performer of adhan
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
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)

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

10. 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
Immoderate view
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Laic - purely historical
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry

11. Bahrain
Kuwait City
Mustasawwif
20-25%
Manama

12. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
Algiers
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
Mogadishu
Tripoli

13. The Arab Parliament was created:
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Joseph
2001 - Amman
22

14. Lebanon
Struggle for God
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.
Cairo
Beirut

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

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

17. Yemen
Moderate view
Sufism
Sana
Riyadh

18. 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.....
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Immoderate view
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)
Abu Dhabi

19. Sudan
Khartoum
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
63
Muscat

20. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Muscat
Mustasawwif
Joseph

21. Tunisia
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).
to recite
Tunis
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam

22. 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.
Manama
Sufism
Amman

23. Kuwait
Manama
Algiers
Kuwait City
Amman

24. What is the Kaaba?
Laic - purely historical
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.
20-25%
Struggle for God

25. What is Pan-Arabism?
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
20-25%
The Bedouin
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.

26. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Kuwait City
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
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

27. Egypt
Cairo
Manama
Beirut
Joseph

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

29. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
Mogadishu
Manama
Laic - purely historical
to recite

30. Hanifiyya
Rabat
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Nouakchott
Arabian monotheism

31. What age was Muhammed when he died?
2001 - Amman
Muslim call to prayer
63
Tripoli

32. Who is the Original Arab?
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.
The Bedouin
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.

33. Jordan
Sufism
Damascus
Amman
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.

34. What is the Sunna?
Tariiqa
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Djibouti
The Bedouin

35. 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
Immoderate view
Baghdad
Sufism

36. What is the Hijra?
Beirut
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 first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
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)

37. Qatar
Riyadh
Beirut
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Doha

38. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
Laic - purely historical
Tariiqa
63
The Bedouin

39. Somalia
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Mogadishu
Khartoum
the performer of adhan

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

41. 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.
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
the performer of adhan
Immoderate view
Sufism

42. 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
Mustasawwif
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Khartoum

43. Mauritania
Damascus
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
Nouakchott
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad

44. What is Mesopotamia?
Muscat
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend 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.
Dhikr

45. Who are the Nabatians?
Damascus
Racial Islamist view
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.

46. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
Arabian monotheism
22
Moderate view
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.

47. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
20-25%
Tariiqa
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
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.

48. Algeria
Damascus
Algiers
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Joseph

49. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
Baghdad
Kuwait City
Immoderate view
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.

50. 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: .....
Racial Islamist view
Damascus
Beirut
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).