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Arab Culture

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1. United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Baghdad
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.

2. 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
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Algiers

3. Hanifiyya
Immoderate view
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
Rabat
Arabian monotheism

4. Kuwait
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend 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
Kuwait City
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry

5. Mauritania
Mogadishu
Nouakchott
Beirut
Arab league members

6. Egypt
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
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
The Bedouin

7. The Qur'an contains.... Chapters
114
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Khartoum

8. 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
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
Baghdad
Abu Dhabi

9. Who is the Original Arab?
As a religious Islamic term - it usually means 'the Prophetic tradition' - 'narrative relating deeds and utterances of the Prophet and his Companions'.
Khartoum
Manama
The Bedouin

10. Tunisia
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Tariiqa
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Tunis

11. Adhan
Muslim call to prayer
Djibouti
Moderate 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.

12. What is Tribal Solidarity?
The Bedouin
Manama
Moderate view
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.

13. The three main branches of Shi'i Islam:
The unity of all the members of a tribe; necessary for militancy and constant movement in search of water and pasture.
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Struggle for God
Muslim call to prayer

14. 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
Tripoli
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Khartoum

15. Sufi term for the one who covers himself with wool
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry
Mustasawwif
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
The Bedouin

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

17. The two holly days unanimously recognized (by both Sunni and Shi'i Islam) are:
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)
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
2001 - Amman

18. What is the Kaaba?
Arab league members
Manama
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
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.

19. What are the main three parts of a 'qasida' (long elaborated Classical poem)
Riyadh
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
Erotic-lyric part - self-pride part - descriptive-reflexive part
Mustasawwif

20. What is the Sunna?
The sayings of the prophet Muhammad which forms the foundation of Muslim law.
63
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).
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.

21. Hadiths

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

23. Libya
Mustasawwif
Tripoli
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman

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

25. Can you identify few main stereotypes about Arabs and the Arabic culture?
22
a list of names before each story of people who passed the story down
Tunis
The most common stereotype is that every Arab is a radical Muslim that wants to blow up America.

26. The Qur'an is considered by Muslims
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
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.

27. Who are the Shiites?
Muslim call to prayer
Arab league members
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
Nouakchott

28. What are the values orientations of the Bedouin Culture?
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
Tribal Solidarity - Chivalry - Hospitality and Generosity - Individuality - and Simplicity
Abu Dhabi
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry

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.
Damascus
Djibouti
anecdotal prose and Qur'anic verses combined with hadith and poetry

30. Who are the Nabatians?
The first Arabian nomad group to settle down in Petra in the 2nd century BC. They were highly skilled water engineers and traders.
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
The Bedouin
Nouakchott

31. According to the Tradition - the unified - unique and complete text of the Qur'an was:
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.
collected and unified in the time of the caliph Othman
Riyadh

32. The two main types of jihad indicated by theologians
Muscat
Imru - Tarafa - Antara - Zuhayr - Labid - Amr - Al-Harith
22
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam

33. Sudan
Tariiqa
Damascus
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Khartoum

34. Jordan
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
Amman
Manama
Abu Dhabi

35. In the total of the world's Muslims - Arab Muslims represent:
Struggle for God
The Bedouin
Riyadh
20-25%

36. Qatar
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
Doha
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Racial Islamist view

37. Oman
Joseph
Personal struggle on living and following God - War - In where you defend Islam
Manama
Muscat

38. Sufi term for ritual remembering of the name of God'
Tunis
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
Struggle for God

39. 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.
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.
Arab league members
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)

40. 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.
63
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
Petra is the capital of the Nabateans - the first Arab civilization; it is in modern day Jordan.

41. Djibouti
2001 - Amman
Algiers
Djibouti
Tariiqa

42. The Arabic word 'Qur'an' means:
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
114
Joseph
to recite

43. Shari'a

44. Muezzin
the performer of adhan
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
A Muslim sect that follows Ali.
22

45. Yemen
Arabian monotheism
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
Sana
22

46. What is Pan-Arabism?
the performer of adhan
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
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.
1. Twelvers 2. Ismaili 3. Zaidiyyah

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

48. What age was Muhammed when he died?
the Word of God transmitted by the Prophet Muhammad
2001 - Amman
63
Pan-Arabism is the idea that all of the countries of the Arab world should unite against the enemies of the Arab world.

49. What is Mesopotamia?
Joseph
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.
Rabat
collection of the Prophet's sayings and actions

50. Iraq
Baghdad
63
Racial Islamist view
Eidul Fitr (the Smaller Eid) and Eidul Adha (the Greater Eid)