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A band performs the Ayyala, which is a cultural dance derived from Arab tribes sword battles. The United Arab Emirates is a part of the Arab khaleeji tradition. Yowlah, a type of music and dance also known as Al-Ayyala, has been registered by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2014. [39]
Emirati Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة الإماراتية, romanized: al-Lahjah al-Imārātīyah), also known as Al Ramsa (Arabic: الرمسة, romanized: al-Ramsa), [13] refers to a group of Arabic dialectal varieties spoken by the Emiratis native to the United Arab Emirates that share core characteristics with specific phonological, lexical, and morphosyntactic features and a certain degree ...
Separating concepts in Islam from concepts specific to Arab culture, or from the language itself, can be difficult. Many Arabic concepts have an Arabic secular meaning as well as an Islamic meaning. One example is the concept of dawah. Arabic, like all languages, contains words whose meanings differ across various contexts.
The Mu'allaqat (Arabic: المعلقات, [al-muʕallaqaːt]) is the name given to a series of seven Arabic poems or qasida that originated before the time of Islam. Each poem in the set has a different author, and is considered to be their best work.
With the spread of Islam, it acquired a meaning of "practical ethics" (rather than directly religious strictures) around the 8th century. By the 9th century (3rd Islamic century), its connotations had expanded, especially when used as a loanword in non-Arabic speaking regions.
In Islam, dunyā (Arabic: دُنْيا) refers to the temporal world and its earthly concerns and possessions.In the Quran, "dunya" is often paired with the word "life" to underscore the temporary and fleeting nature of the life of this world, as opposed to the eternal realm of the afterlife, known as "akhirah".
Islam is the official religion of the United Arab Emirates. Of the total population, 76.9% are Muslims as of a 2010 estimate by the Pew Research Center . Although no official statistics are available for the breakdown between Sunni and Shia Muslims among noncitizen residents, media estimates suggest less than 20 percent of the noncitizen Muslim ...
Dubai [a] is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populous of the country's seven emirates. [5] [6] [7] As of 2024, the city has a population of around 3.79 million, [8] more than 90% of which are expatriates.