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Arab Culture

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1. Libya
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
Tripoli
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.

2. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
Amman
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Arab league members
Tunis

3. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Mogadishu
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad

4. Who is the Original Arab?
The Bedouin
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
to recite

5. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Baghdad
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.

6. Who are the Shiites?
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
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 first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.

7. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
Tripoli
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Amman

8. 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.
the performer of adhan
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 sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.

9. What is the Kaaba?
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Arab league members
Muscat
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.

10. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
Muslim call to prayer
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
22

11. 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.
Sufism
Mustasawwif
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Joseph

12. Sudan
Tariiqa
Khartoum
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Nouakchott

13. Qatar
Abu Dhabi
Doha
Arab league members
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.

14. Muezzin
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
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

15. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Arabian monotheism
Algiers
Sufism

16. 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.
Beirut
the performer of adhan
Mustasawwif

17. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
Moderate view
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.
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down

18. 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.
Tariiqa
2001 - Amman
Arab league members
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.

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

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20. Morocco
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Rabat
20-25%
Struggle for God

21. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
Tripoli
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Moderate view
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.

22. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Struggle for God
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

23. Kuwait
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Kuwait City
Sufism

24. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
Laic - purely historical
Cairo
Dhikr
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.

25. Adhan
Mustasawwif
2001 - Amman
Riyadh
Muslim call to prayer

26. What age was Muhammed when he died?
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
Cairo
63
Sufism

27. The two holly days unanimously recognized (by both Sunni and Shi'i Islam) are:
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.
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

28. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
22
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.

29. What is Tribal Solidarity?
Beirut
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
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.
Tripoli

30. Lebanon
Beirut
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Damascus

31. What is Pan-Arabism?
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
Moderate view
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Muscat

32. 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: .....
Mogadishu
Racial Islamist view
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.
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry

33. Iraq
20-25%
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Mustasawwif
Baghdad

34. Saudi Arabia
Doha
Riyadh
Algiers
Djibouti

35. Hanifiyya
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
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
Arabian monotheism

36. 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.
Mogadishu
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Sufism

37. Bahrain
Tunis
Manama
Doha
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions

38. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
63
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
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman

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

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40. 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
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
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.
Djibouti
Laic - purely historical

41. What is Petra?
Riyadh
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Tariiqa
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry

42. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
20-25%
The Bedouin
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
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

43. What is the Hijra?
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
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.
Dhikr
the performer of adhan

44. An ideal of male beauty in Islam
to recite
Baghdad
Joseph
Immoderate view

45. Syria
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Algiers
Damascus
Struggle for God

46. 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.....
Laic - purely historical
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Immoderate view
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman

47. Distinction between 'ritual prayer' (salat) and 'supplication (du'aa') in Islam:
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
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
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
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

48. Somalia
Mogadishu
Moderate view
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.

49. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
Struggle for God
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
114
Manama

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

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