MENAS 398 Midterm: AAPTIS 331 Midterm Study Guide
6 Aug 2015
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The levant: countries along the coast of the mediterranean sea. The gulf: some of the wealthiest countries of arabia. North africa: algeria, egypt, libya, morocco, sudan, and tunisia. Arabian peninsula: yemen, oman, qatar, bahrain, kuwait, saudi arabia, uae, and. Orientalism: western academia created art with the concept of the orient . Helped aid colonial domination of the arabian countries. West"s women are proper, while the orient"s women are either oppressed or hypersexualized. Qasida: poetry was an important component of pre-islamic arab culture. Type of poem referred to as an ode. (a poem that"s often sung) (lyrical poem). State of ignorance of the guidance from god . Pagan worshippers were seen as the jahiliyya group. Imru al-qays: a type of mu"allaquat of a man named imru and his journey and his lovers. Mu"allaquat: hanging poems as evidence of a highly developed oral-literary culture. Code of the desert: the desert contained numerous nomadic tribal groups.
