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Arab Culture

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1. United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi
Sana
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
114

2. Adhan
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
22
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Muslim call to prayer

3. Are there differences between the Arab world - the Muslim world and the Middle East?
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 Bedouin
Muslim call to prayer
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

4. Who is the Original Arab?
Amman
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
Tariiqa

5. Shari'a

6. What is the Sunna?
Rabat
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Riyadh

7. Who are the Nabatians?
Arab league members
Dhikr
Abu Dhabi
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.

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

9. Morocco
Rabat
Nouakchott
Struggle for God
Khartoum

10. What is the Kaaba?
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.
20-25%
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Joseph

11. Iraq
Baghdad
Sufism
Arabian monotheism
to recite

12. 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.
Muslim call to prayer
Damascus
Sufism

13. Muezzin
20-25%
Tariiqa
the performer of adhan
Muscat

14. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
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
Abu Dhabi

15. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Tariiqa
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 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.

16. The Arab Parliament was created:
Racial Islamist view
2001 - Amman
Dhikr
114

17. 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
2001 - Amman
Muslim call to prayer
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).

18. Yemen
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Riyadh
Sana
to recite

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

20. Qatar
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Doha
Manama
Muslim call to prayer

21. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
Dhikr
Moderate view
Tunis
22

22. Djibouti
Nouakchott
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Djibouti
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam

23. Sufi term for 'path - method' and refers in the context to both the way of thinking of a spiritual master
Moderate view
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Tariiqa
Kuwait City

24. 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
Damascus
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. Bahrain
Racial Islamist view
Manama
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
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.

27. Kuwait
Kuwait City
Rabat
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

28. What is Mesopotamia?
2001 - Amman
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
20-25%
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.

29. 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.
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.
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.

30. Tunisia
Beirut
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
Tunis

31. 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.
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.
Sufism
Baghdad
Arab league members

32. Hanifiyya
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Tunis
Arabian monotheism
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.

33. Hadiths

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

35. Egypt
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Nouakchott
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Cairo

36. Algeria
Muscat
Algiers
Racial Islamist view
Sana

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

38. Sudan
Muscat
Khartoum
Tunis
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam

39. The two holly days unanimously recognized (by both Sunni and Shi'i Islam) are:
Riyadh
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.

40. 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
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Dhikr
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.

41. What is Petra?
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 first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
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.

42. Syria
Joseph
Damascus
Racial Islamist view
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions

43. Who are the Shiites?
20-25%
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Riyadh
Khartoum

44. Jordan
Amman
Struggle for God
Muslim call to prayer
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.

45. Mauritania
Tariiqa
2001 - Amman
Nouakchott
Sana

46. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
114
22
Joseph
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)

47. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
Immoderate view
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah

48. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
20-25%
Tripoli
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Khartoum

49. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
to recite
22
Dhikr
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

50. Oman
Muscat
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
Joseph
Manama