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1. What is the Kaaba?
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.
Nouakchott
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Amman

2. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
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
Nouakchott
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
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3. Who is the Original Arab?
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
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The Bedouin
Abu Dhabi

4. Who are the Shiites?
Racial Islamist view
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Abu Dhabi
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad

5. Hadiths

6. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
20-25%
the performer of adhan
Moderate view
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part

7. 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
Manama
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Arab league members

8. 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
the performer of adhan
Djibouti
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Laic - purely historical

9. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
Tariiqa
Joseph
Khartoum
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. Tunisia
Arabian monotheism
Beirut
Tunis
Struggle for God

11. What is Tribal Solidarity?
2001 - Amman
Tunis
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.

12. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
Joseph
Djibouti
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Rabat

13. What is Petra?
Struggle for God
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Amman

14. Libya
Tripoli
Laic - purely historical
the performer of adhan
Dhikr

15. 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.....
Algiers
Immoderate view
Rabat
Arabian monotheism

16. The Arab Parliament was created:
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
2001 - Amman
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
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.

17. Iraq
Tripoli
Rabat
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Baghdad

18. Jordan
Rabat
Amman
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
Laic - purely historical

19. Adhan
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
2001 - Amman
Djibouti
Muslim call to prayer

20. What is the Hijra?
Cairo
Arab league members
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
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.

21. The two holly days unanimously recognized (by both Sunni and Shi'i Islam) are:
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).
Cairo
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.
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

22. Somalia
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)
Mogadishu
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Nouakchott

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

24. An ideal of male beauty in Islam
20-25%
Joseph
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Nouakchott

25. Oman
Rabat
Struggle for God
Muscat
Tripoli

26. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam

27. What is Mesopotamia?
Racial Islamist view
Tariiqa
Mogadishu
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.

28. Qatar
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.
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Doha
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

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

30. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
to recite
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
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

31. Lebanon
Beirut
Manama
Struggle for God
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

32. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Sufism
2001 - Amman
to recite

33. Djibouti
Djibouti
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
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.

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

35. United Arab Emirates
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
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
Abu Dhabi

36. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
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)
Mustasawwif

37. Adab

38. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
Dhikr
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
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.

39. 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: .....
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Muscat
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Racial Islamist view

40. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
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
Struggle for God
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).

41. What is the Sunna?
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Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Dhikr

42. Muezzin
Mogadishu
Racial Islamist view
the performer of adhan
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

43. Algeria
Algiers
Muscat
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Cairo

44. Hanifiyya
the performer of adhan
Arabian monotheism
Tariiqa
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah

45. Kuwait
the performer of adhan
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Kuwait City
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.

46. What age was Muhammed when he died?
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
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2001 - Amman
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

47. 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.
Muscat
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)
Kuwait City

48. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
Damascus
Dhikr
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Doha

49. Egypt
Tripoli
Cairo
Struggle for God
Joseph

50. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
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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
Khartoum
2001 - Amman