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Arab Culture

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1. Yemen
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
Sana
Doha

2. Jordan
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
to recite
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Amman

3. Who are the Shiites?
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.
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Tariiqa

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

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

6. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
Doha
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
20-25%

7. Hadiths

8. Algeria
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Algiers
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.

9. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
Algiers
Muslim call to prayer
Struggle for God
Laic - purely historical

10. Djibouti
Algiers
Baghdad
Djibouti
2001 - Amman

11. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
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).
Moderate view
Muslim call to prayer
Amman

12. What is Petra?
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Sufism
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Kuwait City

13. Lebanon
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Beirut
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry

14. Somalia
Tariiqa
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Mogadishu
Beirut

15. Egypt
Arab league members
Joseph
Cairo
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

16. 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.
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Sufism
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.

17. What is the Hijra?
Amman
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.
Damascus
Muscat

18. 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.
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Doha
Baghdad

19. Tunisia
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
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
Tunis

20. What age was Muhammed when he died?
63
Immoderate view
Riyadh
Mogadishu

21. Muezzin
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
the performer of adhan
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
2001 - Amman

22. What is the Sunna?
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Rabat
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.

23. Mauritania
2001 - Amman
Nouakchott
Khartoum
Cairo

24. 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)
Amman
2001 - Amman
Laic - purely historical

25. The Arab Parliament was created:
Baghdad
2001 - Amman
Sana
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity

26. An ideal of male beauty in Islam
Dhikr
Tunis
Kuwait City
Joseph

27. Adab

28. Qatar
Doha
63
Damascus
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

29. Shari'a

30. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
Tariiqa
Rabat
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
2001 - Amman

31. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
Tripoli
20-25%
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

32. Bahrain
Moderate view
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Manama
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.

33. Saudi Arabia
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.
22
Riyadh
20-25%

34. Hanifiyya
Arabian monotheism
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
Moderate view
Muslim call to prayer

35. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Arab league members
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
20-25%
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity

36. Adhan
Laic - purely historical
Muslim call to prayer
Mogadishu
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

37. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

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

39. United Arab Emirates
Beirut
Abu Dhabi
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Muscat

40. 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
Manama
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.

41. Libya
Tripoli
Muscat
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
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

42. Syria
Damascus
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
Amman
Arabian monotheism

43. Sudan
Tripoli
Khartoum
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Racial Islamist view

44. 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.
63
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Tunis

45. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Joseph
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
Tariiqa

46. 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
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
the performer of adhan
Laic - purely historical
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.

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

48. 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: .....
Doha
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Tunis
Racial Islamist view

49. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
Sufism
20-25%
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down

50. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
63
Amman
Baghdad
Mustasawwif