Arab Culture

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

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2. What is the Kaaba?
Damascus
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.
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 Bedouin


3. Algeria
Riyadh
Algiers
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Tariiqa


4. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
Dhikr
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
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Amman


5. Mauritania
Nouakchott
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
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


6. Who are the Shiites?
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
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
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Muscat


7. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
to recite
Beirut
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah


8. What is the Sunna?
Immoderate view
Tariiqa
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).
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.


9. What is Pan-Arabism?
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)
Tunis
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
22


10. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
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.
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
20-25%


11. Shari'a

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12. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
the performer of adhan
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.


13. Who are the Nabatians?
20-25%
Muscat
Laic - purely historical
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.


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

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15. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Abu Dhabi
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Mustasawwif


16. What is Petra?
Tunis
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
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.
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith


17. What is Mesopotamia?
Immoderate view
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
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.


18. Muezzin
Nouakchott
the performer of adhan
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.


19. Egypt
Tripoli
Sufism
Cairo
Mustasawwif


20. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
Moderate view
2001 - Amman
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).
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah


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

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22. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
Algiers
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.
Tunis


23. 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)
Tripoli
Doha
Abu Dhabi


24. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
Algiers
Joseph
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
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


25. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Laic - purely historical
22
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.


26. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
Dhikr
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
Mustasawwif


27. 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: .....
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
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
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Racial Islamist view


28. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
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.
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Tariiqa
Muslim call to prayer


29. Oman
Muscat
Sufism
2001 - Amman
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.


30. What is the Hijra?
Algiers
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
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.
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman


31. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
114
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Algiers


32. United Arab Emirates
Cairo
Doha
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.
Abu Dhabi


33. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

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34. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
Tariiqa
Arab league members
Moderate view
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam


35. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
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.
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Moderate view


36. Kuwait
Kuwait City
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.
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.


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


38. Syria
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Damascus
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).
Kuwait City


39. Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
Baghdad
Doha
Dhikr


40. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Sufism
Amman
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.


41. What age was Muhammed when he died?
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Kuwait City
Manama
63


42. The Arab Parliament was created:
2001 - Amman
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'.
Muslim call to prayer


43. Sudan
Kuwait City
The Bedouin
Djibouti
Khartoum


44. What is Tribal Solidarity?
Beirut
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Baghdad


45. Jordan
Amman
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
Baghdad
Racial Islamist view


46. 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.
Arab league members
Sufism
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Abu Dhabi


47. 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
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
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
Laic - purely historical


48. 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.
Joseph
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Sufism
Mogadishu


49. Lebanon
Rabat
Beirut
Mogadishu
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


50. 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.....
Moderate view
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Immoderate view
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)