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Arab Culture

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1. Egypt
Beirut
Arab league members
Cairo
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)

2. What is the Sunna?
the performer of adhan
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
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

3. Morocco
The Bedouin
Rabat
Immoderate view
to recite

4. What is Petra?
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Arabian monotheism
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah

5. Djibouti
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Doha
Djibouti

6. Bahrain
Manama
22
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.

7. The Arab Parliament was created:
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
Immoderate view
2001 - Amman
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part

8. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
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
Kuwait City
to recite
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.

9. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
Racial Islamist view
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
20-25%
Nouakchott

10. Hadiths

11. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
Dhikr
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Khartoum

12. United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.

13. Adab

14. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
Baghdad
Manama
Struggle for God
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam

15. Syria
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
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)
Damascus
Sana

16. What is Pan-Arabism?
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
63
Beirut

17. Who is the Original Arab?
The Bedouin
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Cairo

18. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
114
Dhikr
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Cairo

19. 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
Muscat
Immoderate view
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.

20. Jordan
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Doha
Amman
20-25%

21. Yemen
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Sana
Racial Islamist view

22. 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
Riyadh
to recite
Algiers

23. Adhan
Rabat
Muslim call to prayer
Baghdad
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.

24. Somalia
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.
Mogadishu
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

25. The two holly days unanimously recognized (by both Sunni and Shi'i Islam) are:
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
20-25%
2001 - Amman
Tunis

26. 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.....
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
Amman
Beirut

27. Who are the Shiites?
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
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.
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman

28. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
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.
Struggle for God
Arabian monotheism
Tariiqa

29. Qatar
Baghdad
Doha
Muslim call to prayer
the performer of adhan

30. Lebanon
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
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

31. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
22
Nouakchott
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman

32. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
Djibouti
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Khartoum
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.

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

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

35. Who are the Nabatians?
Joseph
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
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.

36. Hanifiyya
Arabian monotheism
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
22
Khartoum

37. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Khartoum
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity

38. 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: .....
20-25%
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.
Racial Islamist view

39. Mauritania
Nouakchott
The Bedouin
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
114

40. 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%
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).
Arab league members
Sufism

41. 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).
Tunis
63
Abu Dhabi

42. Libya
Tripoli
Tariiqa
Amman
Tunis

43. An ideal of male beauty in Islam
Mustasawwif
22
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).
Joseph

44. What is the Hijra?
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)
63
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.
22

45. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
22
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Amman
Joseph

46. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
Racial Islamist view
Mustasawwif
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
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. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
22
Djibouti
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Cairo

48. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Mustasawwif
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down

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

50. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
to recite
Doha
the performer of adhan
Tunis