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Arab Culture

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1. The Arab Parliament was created:
Racial Islamist view
Joseph
2001 - Amman
Khartoum

2. Muezzin
Muslim call to prayer
Arabian monotheism
the performer of adhan
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.

3. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

4. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
the performer of adhan
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
20-25%
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

5. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
Riyadh
Laic - purely historical
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).
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.

6. Morocco
Rabat
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Moderate view
Struggle for God

7. 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.
Mustasawwif
Arab league members
114
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.

8. Sudan
Khartoum
Immoderate view
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
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)

9. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
Cairo
Arabian monotheism
to recite
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

10. Hanifiyya
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
114
Arabian monotheism
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

11. Adab

12. Tunisia
Nouakchott
Tunis
Tripoli
Joseph

13. Saudi Arabia
Tariiqa
22
Riyadh
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

14. Qatar
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
63
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Doha

15. Lebanon
Djibouti
Beirut
Sufism
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

16. 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.
20-25%
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

17. What is the Kaaba?
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Immoderate view
Djibouti
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.

18. What age was Muhammed when he died?
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
63
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Doha

19. Oman
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Muscat
Amman
20-25%

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

21. Distinction between 'ritual prayer' (salat) and 'supplication (du'aa') in Islam:
Sana
114
The Bedouin
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. What is Petra?
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Beirut
Sana
Racial Islamist view

23. Who are the Shiites?
Damascus
Muscat
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam

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

25. Somalia
Immoderate view
Mogadishu
Tripoli
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

26. Hadiths

27. What is Pan-Arabism?
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Mogadishu
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Arab league members

28. Bahrain
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 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.
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Manama

29. Djibouti
Djibouti
Rabat
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
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)

30. Mauritania
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
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)
Nouakchott
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.

31. What is the Sunna?
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Algiers
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.

32. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
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
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Beirut

33. United Arab Emirates
Beirut
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
Muscat

34. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
to recite
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
114
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry

35. What is Tribal Solidarity?
Immoderate view
Muslim call to prayer
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.

36. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Tunis
Laic - purely historical

37. What is Mesopotamia?
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
Amman
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.

38. Algeria
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
Algiers
2001 - Amman
the performer of adhan

39. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
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 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'.
to recite

40. Syria
2001 - Amman
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.
Sana
Damascus

41. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Manama
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
Riyadh

42. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
Doha
Moderate view
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman

43. An ideal of male beauty in Islam
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Joseph
Abu Dhabi
Muscat

44. Yemen
Tariiqa
Nouakchott
Djibouti
Sana

45. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
Beirut
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Djibouti
Kuwait City

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

47. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
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.
Mustasawwif
Djibouti

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

49. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
Mustasawwif
Damascus
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)
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50. Meaning of the term 'Jihad'
Mustasawwif
Riyadh
Struggle for God
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.