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Arab Culture

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1. 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
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Nouakchott
2001 - Amman

2. What is Pan-Arabism?
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.
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
the performer of adhan

3. Tunisia
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
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.
Tunis

4. Somalia
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Moderate 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
Mogadishu

5. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
the performer of adhan
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
Muslim call to prayer

6. Libya
Tripoli
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
Algiers
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down

7. Morocco
Beirut
Immoderate view
Rabat
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down

8. Oman
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
Muscat
Damascus

9. 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: .....
Racial Islamist view
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).
Struggle for God
Laic - purely historical

10. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
Kuwait City
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).
Arab league members
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part

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

12. Shari'a

13. Qatar
Laic - purely historical
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Doha
Moderate view

14. United Arab Emirates
Tunis
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Abu Dhabi

15. What is the Kaaba?
Muscat
Arab league members
Racial Islamist 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.

16. Muezzin
114
the performer of adhan
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
to recite

17. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
Mustasawwif
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Arabian monotheism
The Bedouin

18. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
Abu Dhabi
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
Djibouti
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.

19. Hanifiyya
Muscat
Arabian monotheism
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
Tariiqa

20. What is Tribal Solidarity?
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
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Moderate view
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.

21. Lebanon
Beirut
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
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
Rabat

22. Who are the Nabatians?
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Abu Dhabi
Rabat

23. 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.....
Sufism
Nouakchott
Joseph
Immoderate view

24. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

25. Adab

26. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
Sufism
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Racial Islamist view
to recite

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

28. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
Damascus
Tariiqa
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Sufism

29. The Arab Parliament was created:
114
Beirut
Nouakchott
2001 - Amman

30. What is the Sunna?
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
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)
Dhikr
Baghdad

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

32. Adhan
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.
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Muslim call to prayer
Immoderate view

33. 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
Algiers
Sufism
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad

34. Djibouti
Djibouti
Dhikr
the performer of adhan
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions

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

36. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Djibouti
The Bedouin
20-25%

37. Mauritania
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Nouakchott
Manama
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.

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

39. Who is the Original Arab?
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.
Racial Islamist view
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part

40. Bahrain
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 unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Manama
Muscat

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

42. Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
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
Muslim call to prayer
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.

43. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
Mustasawwif
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Abu Dhabi

44. 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
Amman
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Laic - purely historical
Arabian monotheism

45. Hadiths

46. Egypt
63
Baghdad
Dhikr
Cairo

47. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
Khartoum
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Djibouti

48. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
Muslim call to prayer
114
Sufism
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.

49. Sudan
Abu Dhabi
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Khartoum
Algiers

50. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
22
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.