Courses
This module provides students with a detailed and critical study of Arabic grammar and its prominent schools of thought.
Students will gain exposure to:
• Grammar schools and prominent contributors of each school
• Contributions by grammarians to Arabic grammar structuring
• Perspectives on grammar and syntax
• Emergence of grammar
• Controversial grammatical issue
This module aims to provide students a deepened understanding of classical and modern Arabic literary criticism from the pre-Islamic period until the twentieth century.
Students will gain exposure to:
• Main books and authors in Arabic literary criticism
• Developing criticism from individual perspectives, selfj udgments to objective criticism
• Role of Abdel Qaher Al Gorgany Abdul Qahir Aljurjani in his books of classical Arabic criticism
• Role of Egyptian critics in the development of the Arabic criticism in the modern period
This module guides the student to conducting scientific research in Arabic and producing a research proposal. Students will be provided with a framing of conducting research, relationship between the researcher and supervisor, and norms for research conducted in Arabic. Thereafter, the student will be guided to formulate a research proposal for the thesis.
Students will gain exposure to:
• Choosing the subject, correct title and scientific method for a research project
• An analysis of different types of Arabic knowledge
• The structuring of a thesis
• Referencing techniques for Arabic manuscripts
• Development of a research proposal Students will have to get their research proposal approved by the
Higher Degrees Research Committee (HDRC) prior to being sent for formal assessment.
This module aims to provide students with critical information about grammatical and morphological disagreement, causes, positive and negative results, important forms of grammatical and morphological disagreements and seminal works in the field.
Students will gain exposure to:
• Causes of the origin of Arabic Grammar, grammatical and morphological disagreements, its importance, its causes, its positive and negative results.
• Engagement with the most important books of grammatical and morphological disagreement.
• Grammatical and morphological disagreement issues
This module provides a detailed study of the science and knowledge of investigating heritage manuscripts, its origins in the West, and the role of orientalists in the foundation of area of knowledge. This module also guides researchers to evaluate manuscripts of Islamic and Arab heritage.
Students will gain exposure to:
• Early scholars of Prophetic Hadith and investigation of texts
• Investigation of manuscripts in the modern age
• How to investigate texts of heritage of modern scholars
• Means of investigation
• Steps to follow when investigating and evaluating books
This module provides students with an in-depth study of linguistic and literary views concerning sciences of the Noble Qur’an (Olomel Quran). The module focusses on the science of inflection the Noble Qur’an (Ilm Irabel Quran) as well as the science of the ‘strange’ of the Noble Qur’an (Ilm Ghareebel Quran).
Students will gain exposure to:
• Ulomel Qur’an and its connection to interpretation
• Inflection of the Noble Qur’an (Ilm Irabel Qur’an)
• Stages of Ilm Irabel Qur’an
• Orientalists & evangelists and their suspicions of some verses of the Noble Qur’an
• Strange words in the Noble Qur’an (Ilm Ghareebel Qur’an)
• Stages of Ilm Ghareebel Qur’an
• Books of Ilm Ghareebel Qur’an
• ‘Story’ in the Noble Qur’an
• ‘Story’ in Arabic literature and in modern universal literature
• Main differences between ‘story’ and ‘novel’
• Characteristics of story in the Noble Qur’an
• Proverbs in Arabic literature and in the Noble Qur’an
• Types of proverbs in the Noble Qur’an
• Differences between proverbs in Arabic literature and in the Noble Quran
This module provides an in-depth study of critical issues of modern Arab literature that have emerged
since the Renaissance of the Arabs at the beginning of the Modern Literary Renaissance.
Students will gain exposure to:
• Role of colonialism in erasing Arab identity
• Colonialism and its attempts to eliminate the language
• Modern poetic schools that emerged in the modern era
• New poetic purposes of modern poets
• Development of literary prose by Arabic writers
• Attempts to renew poetry in this era
This module aims to provide students with an analysis of the Noble Qur’an and its writing in the period of the Companions. The module overarchingly addresses the question: why did the Prophet PBUH prevent some of the Companions from writing the Prophet’s PBUH hadith.
This module also explores how Qur’anic text was collected in the age of Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, Umar bin Al-Khattab, and Othman bin Affan. This module address the concept of controlling the text of the Noble Qur’an and the stages of control - starting from the stage of Abu AlAswad Al-Duali.
Students will gain exposure to:
• Linguistic and terminological meanings of the word “Qur’an”
• Coming down of the Noble Qur’an • Stages of the gathering of the Holy Quran
• Stages of the control of Qur’anic text
• Noble Qur’an and its impact on the emergence of the Arabic Lexicon
This module aims to provide students with an analysis of the Noble Qur’an and its writing in the period of the Companions. The module overarchingly addresses the question: why did the Prophet PBUH prevent some of the Companions from writing the Prophet’s PBUH hadith.
This module also explores how Qur’anic text was collected in the age of Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, Umar bin Al-Khattab, and Othman bin Affan. This module address the concept of controlling the text of the Noble Qur’an and the stages of control - starting from the stage of Abu AlAswad Al-Duali.
Students will gain exposure to:
• Linguistic and terminological meanings of the word “Qur’an”
• Coming down of the Noble Qur’an • Stages of the gathering of the Holy Quran
• Stages of the control of Qur’anic text
• Noble Qur’an and its impact on the emergence of the Arabic Lexicon
This module aims to provide students with a detailed foundation in prosody, stages of inception,
differentiation between poetry and prose, poetry meters, prosodic writing and scansion. Students will gain exposure to:
● Definitions of prosody
● Understanding the Behor or scales Al bahoor Al Sharia of Arabic
● Common poetry meters
• Analysis of texts of poetry and prosodic writing methods
The module aims to provide students with the knowledge of the main three axes in Arabic rhetoric: (1)
tracking rhetorical terms and their development as well as the most important scholars of rhetoric and
their sources, (2) studying characteristics of literature in the early Islamic and Umayyad periods and
notable writers who influenced the IOU – ARABIC – MA ARABIC LANGUAGE STUDIES [ MA(ALS) ]
COURSEWORK – PROGRAMME GUIDE 50 literature of that period, and (3) studying and analysing literary
texts with applying Arabic rhetoric and literary criticism. Students will gain exposure to:
• Methods of rhetorical thinking and how those methods have been developed
• Important sources of Arab rhetorical heritage
• Important poetic and prose
• Methods of studying different literary texts
• Introduction to the History of literature in the early Islamic and Umayyad periods
• Features of literature in the early Islamic and Umayyad periods
• Aesthetics of literature in the early Islamic and Umayyad periods
This module aims to provide students with an in-depth analysis on selected words mentioned in the Noble Qur’an, and how these words were founded in pre-Islamic poetry. Questions for critical inquiry in this module include:
• Were words in pre-Islamic poetry the same as those used in the Noble Qur’an?
• Did the Noble Qur’an change the meanings of these words?
• Were new words found in the Noble Qur’an unknown in preIslamic life or pre-Islamic poetry?
This module aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the use of prophetic Hadith in
Arabic grammar and linguistic books. Students will gain exposure to:
• Trends of grammarians in using prophetic Hadith in their books
• An exploration of the concept of Lahn نحللا
• A study of Arabic grammar books that contain prophetic Hadith
• Ibn Malek and his use of Hadith in his books
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