Course Details

The course is intended to expose students to the arts of reading, note-taking, note-making, summarizing, using the library, as well as using the dictionary.  Intensive exercises will be given for illustration and testing the level of comprehension.

The Course is intended to introduce students to the basic concepts of literature, with emphasis on the basic components (such as imagery and music), literary creation and literary appreciation.  Relevant Arabic texts will be used for illustration. The course will also dwell on the division of Arabic literature into different literary periods, as well as the most outstanding characteristics of and literary figures in each period. Relevant texts will be used for illustration.

This course entails the study of basic Arabic Grammar including such aspects as types of sentence, some elements and factors that  affect the word order therein, as well as the subjective (al-Mansubat) and Appositives (at-Tawabi^c).

The course consolidates various aspects dealt with in ARA 1301.  It will also entail extensive reading as well as comprehension exercises.

The course is intended to be a textual study of selections from such literary genres as poetry, proverbs, wise sayings, folk tales, soothsayers' rhymed prose and sermons/addresses.

This course is designed to be a study of basic Arabic Morphology, treating the structural formations and composition of words.  Emphasis will be placed on such aspects as the morphological measure, the Naked and compound Forms and the defective verbs.  The course will also involve the study of morphology of nouns.

This course is intended to give a detailed Arabic verbal morphological analysis.  Such aspects as the naked and compound forms as well as the particles of augmentation will be dealt with in a detailed manner.

This is a textual study course designed to acquaint the students with modern terminologies and expressions as may be cited in selections from literary journals and daily press.

This course is intended to give a historical background to Arabic Grammar in addition to the study of some grammatical features related to nouns and verbs, such as the primary and secondary signs of declension (calamat al-Icrab) as well as the Dual and its concomitants.  It will also involve the study of nominative and accusative nouns, such as subject and Predicate, the Agent, the  vocative, specification and Adverbs.

The course is designed to consolidate aspects dealt with in ARA 2301.  It is also designed for the acquisition of advanced reading and writing skills.

The course will deal with a developmental survey of Arabic Grammar, in addition to some grammatical aspects such as Declinable and Indeclinable, Active and Passive Voices, Nominal and Verbal sentences, Pronouns, Relative Particles, Proper Nouns and verbal emphasis.

The course is intended to give a general overview of the literature of the two periods, with some emphasis on the literary genres and figures.  It will also involve a detailed study of one of the seven odes, some short poems from such collections as Mufaddaliyyat, Hamasah and Jamharah.  A lot of other relevant, representative texts will also be used for illustration.

This course will expose the students to the main types of essay writing and will give them intensive exercises thereof.

The course deals with a study of certain grammatical features such as Numbers, Pronouns, types of declension, the Jussive Mood, Verbs of Approximation, Intensification of the Imperfect, and Inflection of Defective Verbs.

This course is designed to give detailed morphological analysis of nouns, treating such aspects of the Diminutive and the nouns of relativism (an-Nisbah), posture (al-Hay'ah), place (Makan, tool ('Alah), number (Marrah), etc, etc.

This course exposes students to the representative works of the Umayyad period, in addition to a historical survey, which is intended to facilitate the comprehension and appreciation of the works further.

In addition to giving an historical background to this literary period, the course also exposes the students to the study of selections from the works of the representative poets and writers of the period such as Bashshar, Abu Tammam, Abu Nuwas, al-Mutanabbi, Ibn al-Muqaffa'and Sahl b. Harun.

The course is designed to give a historical survey of the sub-region, as well as its contact with Islam and Islamic learning. It will also deal with the study of various Arabic selections from the works of some West African scholars, including as-Sa^cdi, Ahmad Baba and Shaykh Jibril.

This course gives a historical survey of Arabic literature in Muslim Spain and exposes the students to some works of the representative poets and writers of this part of the world, such as Ibn Zaydun, Ibn Hani', Ibn ^cAbd Rabbih, Ibn Hazm, and Ibn `Shuhayd.

The course deals with a study of a literary school, its development, major representatives as well as some works exemplifying it.

In addition to surveying the contributions of the Qur'an to the development of Arabic language and literature, this course will develop in students a literary appreciation of the Qur'an through a textual study of some selections of verses.

The course is intended to survey Hadith contributions to the development of Arabic language and literature.  This is in addition to a literary study of some selections of Hadith texts.

This course is designed to expose the students to some important primary sources, classical and modern primary sources, classical and modern, in various branches of Arabic scholarship.

This course will give a survey of the development of Classical Arabic Criticism, laying special emphasis on Al-Amidi's Muwazanah.

This course is intended to give a short historical survey of Arabic Rhetoric and to expose students to the "Bayan" and "Ma'ani" aspects thereof, such elements as Similes, Metaphors, Ijaz, Idnab, Isnad and Wa-l will be treated.

The course gives a historical background to Arabic prosody, followed by a study of "Zihafat" and "Ilal", i.e. deviations and irregularities in metres.  The fourteen metres are also analysed in broad outlines.

The course is designed to introduce students to the study of phonetics and phonology of the Arabic language.  Among others, such aspects as morphemes, allomorphs, phonemes, as well as the sound systems of Arabic will be treated.

Besides introducing the students to the basic principles of translation, the course exposes them to intensive exercises in literary translation from and to Arabic.

The course is designed to expose Special Honours students to modern methods of research in Arabic Studies as well as to familiarize them with scientific methods of editing Arabic manuscripts.

The course is designed to expose students to modern critical approaches to traditional Arabic Grammar as contained in such works as Ibrahim Mostapha's Ihya an-Nahw, Mokhzoumi's an-Nahw al-^cArabi: Naqd wa Tawjih and Ibn Mada's `al-Radd^cala al-Nuhat'.  It also aims at giving a detailed study of some selected topics of Arabic Grammar, such as the Construct, the Appositives, Exception, the Adverb of Condition, the Theory of the Agent, the Vocative, the Verbs of  Wonderment, the Verbs of Pre-eminence and Noman Relativism.

This course is essentially based on a textual study of some selections from the literary works of Nigerian authors such as Usman b. Fodio, Abdullahi b. Fodio, Muhammad Bello, Wazir Junaid and Abubakar cAtiq for analysis, appreciation and comparison with similar works in the Arab World.

This course is meant to provide a detailed analysis of the substitution (Ibdal and Iclal) aspects of Arabic Morphology.

This is a more advanced course designed to survey the development of major modern schools of poetry and expose the students to their representative selections.

The course will survey the growth and development of the modern Arabic prose.  It will also expose the students to the representative selections from the works of novelists, playwrights and essayists.

This is  designed to expose the students to some major approaches and issues in modern Arabic Criticism, which thereby enhance their literary appreciation and analytical skills.

This course is designed for an in-depth study of a selected special author.  In it, the students will be exposed to his personality, biography and works.

This course is designed to involve a detailed analysis of and discussions on some selected topics in Arabic Grammar.

This course is intended to give a historical background to the development of Arabic lexicography.  Discussions will also centre on the type of the Arabic lexicon.

The course entails the detailed study of the "Basic" aspect of Arabic Rhetoric, as well as discussions on new ideas on and approaches to Arabic Rhetoric. 

The course involves a detailed study of the aspects of rhymes (al-Qawafi).  It is also designed to expose students to modern ideas on and approaches to Arabic Prosody in general.

This course is intended to give a historical background to the Arabic literary tradition in the Mahjar (i.e. in the Americas) and in the North Africa in modern times.  It will also include the study of a lot of texts representative and illustrative of the various genres involved.

This course further exposes the students to advanced types of translation from and to Arabic and to intensive exercises thereof.

This project, to be undertaken by Special Honours Students, will be on a topic to be approved by the Department.