The culture and the Place
played a substantial role in the shaping and development of Arabic culture
What is Islam
The type of life these dessert dwellers have...
What is nomadic Bedouins?
Nomadic and rooted in the environment, they r transformed mountainous terrains with dams and terraces.
What is northern peoples?
Arabic poetry is deeply rooted in this.
What is the oral tradition?
Financial center of Arabia
What is Mecca?
term most often used to refer to the literature of this era
What is Clariscal Arabic literature?
Unlike their neighbors in the desert, these "southerners" are farmers who have more control of their daily lives.
What are the southern Arabs?
Their most significant artistic contribution was calligraphy.
What is people of the south?
Poets and their audiences thought that the poet was influenced by this, which revealed the poem to him.
What is a jinn or muse?
Islamic people believe that he is a messenger of God.
Who is Muhammad?
northeast of the Africa continent and located in Western Asia, it is bordered by the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and Strait of Hormuz, and the Arabian Sea.
The Arabian Penninsula
Early colonizers of the African mainland, these inhabitants spoke Sabaic, a Semitic language.
Who are the Phoenicians of the south?
They adopted the horse and developed fighting skills.
Who are the Bedouins of the north?
Islam shares this with Judaism and Christianity.
What is the emphasis on language and writing.
How Muhammad received his "call."
What is the archangel Gabriel appeared to him.
unique factors about the Arabian Peninsula
Lies at the heart of the ancient Near East
Harsh natural conditions
Not a product of Asia or Africa though it resides between the two
The peninsula is mostly arid desert/ (north) intense heat in the summer, scarcity of rainfall = difficult life
Agricultural abundance in the south
South of the central area of the pennisula, this area has fertile and luxuriant land.
What is the Empty Quarter?
They developed a culture built around tribe and family; their need for survival demanded endurance, courage, generosity, hospitality, loyalty to the tribe, and pride of ancestry.
What is the Bedouins of the north?
This is the holy book of Islam.
What is the Qu'ran?
When Muhammad preached these things, he began to receive opposition.
What is he attacked
polythesism
social justice
opposition to slavery
opposition to burying new born girls alive
True or False: While it is surrounded by five seas, there is little access to river transport.
What is true? There are few accessible coasts
Bedouin means this...
What is "desert dweller"?
Their achievenment was commercial success, breaking together people of different cultures.
What is inhabitants of the south?
Bedouin tribes used this language in their poetry.
What is classical Arabic?
Muhammad and 70 followers left Mecca to go to Medina, marking the formative years of Islam. The migration is called this.
What is hijra?