Arab Culture

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1. 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.
Riyadh
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
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.


2. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
the performer of adhan
The Bedouin
Immoderate view


3. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
Doha
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Dhikr
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam


4. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Dhikr
Manama


5. 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.
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.


6. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
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
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Struggle for God


7. 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.
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Algiers


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

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9. What age was Muhammed when he died?
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
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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10. 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: .....
Moderate view
Racial Islamist view
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Djibouti


11. 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.....
Immoderate view
Racial Islamist view
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 most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.


12. 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
Algiers
Tunis
Struggle for God
Laic - purely historical


13. Mauritania
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Muscat
114
Nouakchott


14. What is the Sunna?
Tariiqa
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Mustasawwif
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah


15. Who are the Shiites?
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Kuwait City
Manama
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.


16. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
20-25%
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
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 first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.


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


18. Jordan
Amman
The Bedouin
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
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19. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Arab league members
22
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


20. Hanifiyya
the performer of adhan
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Arabian monotheism
Damascus


21. Adab

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22. 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
Arabian monotheism
Kuwait City
Tunis


23. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
Dhikr
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Tariiqa
Laic - purely historical


24. Bahrain
Manama
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
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 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.


25. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
Nouakchott
2001 - Amman
Moderate view
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.


26. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
114
Racial Islamist view
Struggle for God
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part


27. Djibouti
Muslim call to prayer
Djibouti
Cairo
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down


28. Saudi Arabia
Rabat
Beirut
Riyadh
Damascus


29. 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.
Riyadh
Nouakchott
The Bedouin


30. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

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31. Algeria
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Mustasawwif
Algiers
Muslim call to prayer


32. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Abu Dhabi
Racial Islamist view


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

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34. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
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.
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
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


35. Morocco
Doha
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Rabat
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down


36. Hadiths

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37. 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
Djibouti
Riyadh
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part


38. Qatar
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Moderate view
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.
Doha


39. What is the Hijra?
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.
Khartoum
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Cairo


40. Yemen
Sana
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.
Riyadh
Abu Dhabi


41. Lebanon
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
Beirut
Arabian monotheism


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

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43. Iraq
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
Baghdad
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


44. The Arab Parliament was created:
2001 - Amman
Abu Dhabi
Tripoli
22


45. Egypt
Khartoum
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Cairo
Tariiqa


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


47. Muezzin
Khartoum
Sufism
the performer of adhan
The Bedouin


48. An ideal of male beauty in Islam
Moderate view
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Sufism
Joseph


49. Oman
Muscat
Khartoum
Laic - purely historical
Immoderate view


50. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
the performer of adhan
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Algiers
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith