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Arab Culture

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1. Who were the seven most famous poets who composed the 'Mu'allqates'?
Damascus
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
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.

2. Adab

3. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
Immoderate 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.
Dhikr
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

4. Libya
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
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
Tripoli
Laic - purely historical

5. Shari'a

6. Mauritania
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).
Damascus
Mogadishu

7. What is the Sunna?
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
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).

8. Lebanon
Baghdad
Racial Islamist view
Arabian monotheism
Beirut

9. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
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 unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
20-25%

10. Distinction between 'ritual prayer' (salat) and 'supplication (du'aa') in Islam:
Nouakchott
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 Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.

11. Who are the Shiites?
Cairo
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
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.

12. 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
Amman
Tunis
Arab league members

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

14. Kuwait
Kuwait City
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
Baghdad
114

15. What is Petra?
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Tunis
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Algiers

16. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
Damascus
Muscat
20-25%
Mustasawwif

17. Jahiliyya is that period when polytheism was preponderant among the ARabs and when the Arabs were ignorant of the unique God's religion. Qualification: .....
Kuwait City
Moderate view
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
20-25%

18. Meaning of the term 'Sunna'
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.
Djibouti
Arab league members
Habit - usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad - the Prophet of Islam.

19. What is Pan-Arabism?
Rabat
Riyadh
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
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)

20. Hadiths

21. Morocco
Rabat
114
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

22. Syria
114
Damascus
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.

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.....
Khartoum
Immoderate view
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
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).

24. 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.
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.
Sufism
Arabian monotheism

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

26. An ideal of male beauty in Islam
Khartoum
Joseph
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Sufism

27. 'Arab states' are considered those that are members of the Arab League. There are ____ members
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Immoderate view
Cairo
22

28. United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi
Muscat
Tripoli
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.

29. Algeria
2001 - Amman
Damascus
Algiers
Amman

30. What is the Kaaba?
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
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
the performer of adhan

31. Bahrain
Manama
Riyadh
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith

32. Tunisia
Tunis
Mustasawwif
Laic - purely historical
Djibouti

33. Who are the Nabatians?
2001 - Amman
Muslim call to prayer
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.

34. Somalia
Tariiqa
Mogadishu
Riyadh
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.

35. Qatar
Arab league members
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
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).
Doha

36. Egypt
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Cairo
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 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.

37. Iraq
Baghdad
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.
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

38. 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.
Mogadishu
Muscat
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part

39. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
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 most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
to recite
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part

40. Yemen
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.
Sana
The Bedouin
Tripoli

41. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
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
Mogadishu
Tariiqa
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part

42. 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: .....
Tunis
to recite
Racial Islamist view
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down

43. What type of verification is provided in the Hadiths?
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
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
Tunis
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah

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

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

46. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
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 Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Algiers

47. The meaning of the term 'Haddith'

48. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
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 land between the two rivers - the Tigris and the Euphrates. The first civilization - and home to the kingdoms of Sumeria - Assyria - Akkadia - and Babylonia.

49. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Mustasawwif
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.

50. Saudi Arabia
Joseph
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.
Riyadh
Tripoli