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Arab Culture

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1. Djibouti
2001 - Amman
Cairo
22
Djibouti

2. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
Sana
Algiers
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)
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

3. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
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
22

4. What age was Muhammed when he died?
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Khartoum
63
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.

5. Hadiths

6. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
Kuwait City
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
Manama
The Bedouin

7. Bahrain
Mustasawwif
Manama
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
Joseph

8. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
Struggle for God
Sana
63
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down

9. What is the Sunna?
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Abu Dhabi
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Moderate view

10. Distinction between 'ritual prayer' (salat) and 'supplication (du'aa') in Islam:
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
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
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 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.

11. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
2001 - Amman
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Riyadh

12. Adab

13. Who are the Shiites?
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
to recite
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity

14. What is Petra?
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Arab league members
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
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)

15. Qatar
114
Doha
Muscat
Djibouti

16. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Rabat
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
Dhikr

17. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
to recite
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
The Bedouin
Dhikr

18. Somalia
Mogadishu
114
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.

19. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
Cairo
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Amman
to recite

20. Sudan
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
Khartoum
20-25%
Mustasawwif

21. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
Rabat
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Nouakchott
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).

22. United Arab Emirates
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Abu Dhabi
Tripoli
Tariiqa

23. Who are the Nabatians?
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 first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Nouakchott
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad

24. Tunisia
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
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.
Struggle for God
Tunis

25. Morocco
Rabat
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Riyadh
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.

26. Saudi Arabia
Baghdad
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
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

27. Who is the Original Arab?
Abu Dhabi
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Riyadh
The Bedouin

28. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
114
Racial Islamist view
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
22

29. Adhan
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Manama
Muslim call to prayer
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

30. Algeria
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Algiers
Baghdad
Damascus

31. 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
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
Sufism
Algiers
Laic - purely historical

32. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

33. 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.
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.
Sufism
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
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

34. Libya
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
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
Tripoli
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.

35. The Arab Parliament was created:
2001 - Amman
Manama
Moderate view
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.

36. What is Tribal Solidarity?
Arabian monotheism
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Cairo
Tariiqa

37. Iraq
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.
63
2001 - Amman
Baghdad

38. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Tunis
Moderate view
Mustasawwif

39. What is Mesopotamia?
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.
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
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)

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

41. What is the Kaaba?
the performer of adhan
Struggle for God
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.
Moderate view

42. Kuwait
The Bedouin
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Kuwait City
2001 - Amman

43. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Muslim call to prayer
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down

44. 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.
Algiers
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Arab league members
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

45. 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
Kuwait City
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Tripoli

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

47. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
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 list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Manama
to recite

48. Egypt
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
Dhikr
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.
Cairo

49. Lebanon
Beirut
Rabat
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
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

50. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
Djibouti
The Bedouin
114
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down