MA Arabic Syllabus KLA Uty

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UNIVERSITY OF KERALA

DEPARTMENT OF ARABIC

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

M.A. ARABIC: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

(CREDIT AND SEMESTER SYSTEM – 2015 Admission Onwards)

SYLLABUS

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Name of Paper Credit

CORE COURSES

SEMESTER - I

1 ARB 511 Grammar & Morphology - I 4

2 ARB 512 Qur'anic & Hadith Literature 4

3 ARB 513 Classical Arabic Literature 4

4 ARB 514 Linguistics, Rhetoric & Prosody 4

SEMESTER - II

1 ARB 521 Grammar & Morphology - II 4

2 ARB 522 History of Islamic Civilization 4

3 ARB 523 Medieval Arabic Literature 4

4 ARB 524 Language Technology and Communication 4

SEMESTER - III

1 ARB 531 Indo Arabic Literature 4

2 ARB 532 History of Modern Arab World 4

3 ARB 533 Modern Arabic Literature 4

4 ARB 534 Literary Criticism 4

SEMESTER - IV

1 ARB 541 Translation and Simultaneous Interpretation 4

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2 ARB 542 Methodology of Teaching Arabic 4

3 ARB 543 Contemporary Arabic Literature 4

4 ARB 544 Dissertation & Viva-voce 4

ELECTIVES

ELECTIVES: SEMESTER – I

1 ARB 5011 Arabic for Travelers 4

2 ARB 5012 Islamic Literature in Arabic 4

3 ARB 5013 Arabic Literature in Kerala 4

ELECTIVES: SEMESTER – II

4 ARB 5021 Commercial Arabic 4

5 ARB 5022 Modern Arabic Literature in Saudi Arabia 4

6 ARB 5023 Arabic Literature in Spain 4

ELECTIVES: SEMESTER – III

7 ARB 5031 Research Methodology 4

8 ARB 5032 Drama, Biography and Fiction in Arabic 4

9 ARB 5033 Mahjar Literature 4

ELECTIVES: SEMESTER – IV

10 ARB 5041 Special Author: Naguib Mahfouz 4

11 ARB 5042 Arabic Journalism and Essay Writing 4

12 ARB 5043 Women's Writing in Arabic 4

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DETAILED SYLLABUS – CORE COURSES

SEMESTER - I

ARB 511 GRAMMAR & MORPHOLOGY - I Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To understand the Structure based composition

• To attain the mastery over the Arabic Grammar, Syntax and Morphology

• To enhance the translational skills from Arabic to English and Vice versa

Course Description

The paper intends to have a better understanding of structure based composition

and it provides an introduction of General Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

(Arabic) and detailed study of Arabic Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax and

Semantics

Module – I: Use of Language, Parts of Speech, Skills of listening, Speaking, Reading,

Writing, Equational Sentences, Interrogative, Vocative, Nunation, Helping Vowels,

Definite article, Demonstrative phrase, Noun – adjective phrases, Pronouns suffixes with

noun

Module – II: Structure of Arabic Sentences, Basic Text, Vocabulary, Sentences and its

types, Gender, Singular, Dual, Plural, Definite and Indefinite, Nominal Sentences and

Verbal Sentences, Object of Genitive case or Prepositions, The Genitive, Adjective

Module – III: Passage comprehension, Modern Standard Arabic, Interaction in different

occasions, Declension of Duals, Sound Plural of Masculine and Feminine, The Broken

Plurals, Sound Verbs, Week Verbs, Moods of the imperfect: Indicative, Subjunctive,

Jussive, Use of Pronouns, Different Pronouns, Attached and Detached Pronouns, Case of

Five Verbs

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Module - IV: Morphology, Types of Verbs, Past, Present, Future, Imperative,

Prohibition, Active and Passive, Trilateral Verbs, Derived Forms of Trilateral Verbs,

Quadrilateral Verbs, Derived Forms of Quadrilateral Verbs, Classification of Verbs by

radical, Hamzated, Assimilated, Hollow, Defective, Conjugate and Aplastic, Energetic

mood

ASSESSMENT: Continuous Assessment: (40%) and Summative Assessment (End

Semester Assessment): (60%)

Continuous Assessment:

• Attendance/Participation: 5%

• 1 Assignment will be a 2000 essay analyzing critically a current thinking in the

subject area of the course: 10%

• A seminar on the assignment topic/topic suggested by the teacher with PPT

presentation and further discussion: 10%

• Class test of 2 hour duration covering initial 50% of modules with very short,

short and essay questions of descriptive types: 15%

Text Books:

1. Elementary Modern Standard Arabic - Part I (Chapters 1 – 5) Edited by:

Peter F Abboud and Earnest N McCarus, Cambridge University Press,

Cambridge, 1983.

2. Al-Qava’id al Arabiyya al Muyassara I: by Dr. Mahmud Ismail-Sini, Dr.

Ibrahim Yusuf Al Sayyid, Muhammed al Rifaee al Shaikh, King Saud

University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

3. Ajnas al Wustha: by Dr. Thajudeen Mannani, Department of Publications,

University of Kerala, 2015

Books for Reference:

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a) Al Arabiyya fi al Mawaqif al Haditha, A.I Rahmatulla and Others, Calicut: Al

Huda Books

b) Al Arabiyya li al Nashi'in, Sini, Mahmud Ismail & Others, (1983), Book IV,

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Ministry of Education

c) Al Arabiyya li al Hayat Book I & II, Dr. Muhmud Ismail Sini & others, King Saud

University, KSA

d) Al Nahw al Musawwar Vol III, Faizal Hussain (Beirut)

e) Arabic by Radio, Cairo

f) Arabic for Travellers, Bertliz, Switzerland

g) Durusun Fi al Arabiyya, London: Linguaphone Institute

h) From the Treasures of Arabic Morphology, Moulana Ebrahim Muhammad,

Academy for Islamic Research, Madrasah In’amiyyah, Camperdown, South Africa

i) Kithab al Meezan, Ajnas al Sugra & Ajnas al Kubra, Tirurangadi Book Stall,

Edumart, Calicut

j) Modern Literary Arabic, David Cowan, School of Oriental and African Studies,

University of London, S. Chand and Company, New Delhi

k) Modern Written Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar, Elsaid Badwi, Michael G.

Carter and Adrian Gully, Routledge Taylors and Francis Group, London and New

York

l) Sampurna Arabi Vyakaranam, Abdul Kalam Faizy, Capital International, 2003

m) Taqwimu llm al lughah al Arabiyy al Hadith, Abdul Haque Shuja’at Ali

Summative Assessment: 3 Hour written examination

Scheme of Question Papers (Total: 60 Marks)

1. 12 Objective type questions 12 x 1 = 12 Marks

2. Short answer type- 8 out of 12 8 x 2 = 16 Marks

3. Short note writing – 3 out of 5 3 x 4 = 12 Marks

4. Translation of passages – 4 out of 8 4 x 5 = 20 Marks

(Arabic to English & Vise versa)

ARB 512 QUR'ANIC & HADITH LITERATURE Credit - 4

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Aim of the Course:

• To assess the impact of Qur'an and Hadith on Arabic language and literature

• To have a better understanding of Arabic Grammar through the Surahs of Quran

• To examine the Qur'an and Hadith as independent literary forms

• To introduce the moral values through the stories from Quran and Hadith

Course Description

The paper examines the depth of Quran and Hadith as literary works and its

impacts and influences over then existing forms of literature in Arabic language.

The lessons impart stories extracted from both Quran and Hadith to enrich the

students with moral and social values.

Module – I: Revelation, Influence of Quran on Arabic Literature, Importance of Hadith

and its history of collection, Miracle of Quran, Quranic influence on unification of Arabic

dialects and other sciences of language, interpretations of Qur’an, classic and modern

important works in Tafsir, Saba’ Qira’a, Asbab al Nuzul, Makki and Madani, Istinbatul-

Ahkam, Ijazul-Qur’an

Module – II: Surah Yusuf, Life of Prophet Yusuf, Prophet Ya’qub, Historical

Background of then Egypt

Module – III: Surah al Furqan (Verses 63 - 77), Characters of Believers and their

Advantages

Module – IV: Hadith, Definition of Hadith, Compilation of Hadith, Sihahu Siththa and

its compilers, Muwatha of Ibn Malik, Sound and Weak Hadith, Contribution of Hadith

towards Arabic literature, Role of Hadith in character formation, The Hadith as second

source of Islam, Riwayah, Rijal-al-Hadith, Al Jurhu wa al ta’dil, Istinabat al ahkam al

sharia Min al Hadith, al Hadith al Gharib, Mukhtalaf al Hadith

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Text Books:

1. Al Thibiyan Fee Uloomil Quran

2. Al Mus’if Fee Lugathi Wa I’rabi Surah Yusuf, Dr. V. Abdur Rahim, The

Islamic Foundation Trust, Chennai – 12, India, 1993

3. Surah Al Furqan (Verses 63 - 77) from Thafseer ibn Katheer

4. Nusus min Hadith al Nabavi al Shareef, Dr. V. Abdur Rahim, The Islamic

Foundation Trust, Chennai – 12, India, 2007


a) Al Amsal Fi al Quran, Muttanisheril M. Koyakkutty

b) Al Itqan fi Ulum al Quran, Imam al Suyuti

c) Hujjatullah al Balighah, Shah Waliyullah al Dahlavi

d) Meaning and Message of the traditions, Muhammd Manzoor Nomani, Islamic

research and publications, Lucknow, 1975

e) Sahih al Bukhari, Imam al Bukhari

f) Sahih Muslim, Imam al Muslim

g) Tafsir al Maragee, Ahmad Musthafa al Maragee

h) Tafsir al Qur'an al Azim, Ibn Kathir, (1969), Cairo: Dar al Ma'arif

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i) The Cultural Atlas of Islam, Ismail R. al Faruqi and Lois Lamya al Faruqi

j) Way to the Qur’an, Khurram Murad, Islamic Book Service




2. Short note type- 5 out of 8 5 x 3 = 15 Marks

3. Elaboration of Quranic verses

and Passages from Hadith – 4 out of 8 4 x 4 = 16 Marks

4. Essay Type – 2 out of 4 2 x 9 = 18 Marks

ARB 513 CLASSICAL ARABIC LITERATURE Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To have a detailed survey over outstanding aspects of literature of the period from

500 AD to 670 AD

• To understand the social structure of the Pre-Islamic period through the prose and

poetry

• To Study the social impacts of Pre Islamic poems with special reference to Al

Muallaqath

Course Description

This course involves the study of outstanding aspects of the Pre-Islamic period,

such as diction, social structure of the Pre-Islamic society, prose writing, poetry,

and its sources. The course comprises an appreciative, critical and analytical study

of Pre-Islamic poetry.

Module - I: Society and Culture of Pre-Islamic period, Lifestyle and customs of Arabs

before Islam, Clans in Arab Society, History of Arabic Language, Origin and

development of Arabic Literature

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Module - II: Pre-Islamic Prose, Proverbs and other forms of prose literature, Statements

of wisdom, moral advices, enchantments of priests, sermons, Al Khitabat, Oratory and

orators

Module - III: Pre-Islamic Poetry, Origin and development of Pre-Islamic poetry, Sources

of poetry, Salient features, Place of poetry in the Arab life, important poetry collections,

Mu'allaqat and authors, other important Pre-Islamic poets, Mukhdaramoon

Module - IV: Development of Prose and Poetry in Islamic Period, Influence of Quran

and Hadith on Arabic Literature, Role of Poetry in defending Islam and the Prophet,

Hassan ibn Thabith, Ka’b ibn Zuhayr, Abdullah Ibn Ravaha, Ka’b ibn Malik.











Text Books:

Prose:

1. Khutabah Quss bin Saidah (P 32-34) Mukhtarath min Adab al Arabi by Walid

Qasab, and Hashim Manna, Dar al Qalam li al Nashri Wa al Thawseeh,

Bardubai, UAE, 1994

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2. Khutubah Hajjatul wida al Nabavi (P 69-73) Mukhtarath min Adab al Arabi

Walid Qasab, and Hashim Manna, Dar al Qalam li al Nashri Wa al Thawseeh,

Bardubai, UAE, 1994

3. Wasiyyatu Abi Bakr (P 75) Mukhtarath min Adab al Arabi Walid Qasab, and

Hashim Manna, Dar al Qalam li al Nashri Wa al Thawseeh, Bardubai, UAE,

1994

4. Khutubah Umar bin Khathab (P 76) from Mukhtarath min Adab al Arabi


Bardubai, UAE, 1994

5. Khutubah Ali bin Abi Thalib (P 78 - 80) from Mukhtarath min Adab al Arabi


Bardubai, UAE, 1994

Poetry:

a) Muallaqa of Zuhair bin Abi Sulma, (21 Lines), (P 17 - 20) from

Mukhtarath min Adab al Arabi Walid Qasab, and Hashim Manna, Dar al

Qalam li al Nashri Wa al Thawseeh, Bardubai, UAE, 1994

b) Banath Suad of Ka’b bin Zuhair (25 Lines), (P 53 - 56) from Mukhtarath

min Adab al Arabi Walid Qasab, and Hashim Manna, Dar al Qalam li al

Nashri Wa al Thawseeh, Bardubai, UAE, 1994

c) Hamziya of Hassan Bin Sabith (22 Lines) (P 57 - 59) from Mukhtarath min

Adab al Arabi Walid Qasab, and Hashim Manna, Dar al Qalam li al Nashri

Wa al Thawseeh, Bardubai, UAE, 1994


a) Al Shi’r wa al Shu’ara’, Ibn Quthaiba

b) Al-Jami' fi Tarikh al Adab al Arabi: al Adab al Qadim, Hanna Fakhuri, Dar al Jil,

Beirut

c) Kithab al Agani, Abul Faraj al Isbahani

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d) Tarikh Adab al Lughat al Arabiyya, Jurji Zaydan, Part I, Cairo: Dar al Hilal

e) Tarikh al Adab al Arabi, Brockleman, Carl,

f) Tarikh ul-Adab il-Arabi, Ahamed Hasan al Zayyat, Darul Marifa, Beirut

g) Tarikh al Adab al Arabi, Vol I, Umar Farrukh, Cairo: Dar al Ilm li al Malayin

h) Tarikh al Adab al Arabi: al Asr al jahili & al Asr al Islami, Shawqi Dayf, Dar al

Ma'arif, Cairo, 1992

i) Thabaqath al Shu’ara’, Ibn Salam al Jumahi





3. Elaboration of Poetic verses

and Passages from Speech – 4 out of 8 4 x 4 = 16 Marks


ARB 514 LINGUISTICS, RHETORICS & PROSODY Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To Introduce basic principle and concept of Linguistics

• To analyze the nature of Arabic as a Semitic language

• To understand the components of Arabic rhetoric and prosody

Course Description

The Paper deals with the Arabic Linguistics, its origin and function. Importance of

Arabic Rhetoric and divisions are explained along with the detailed description of

Ilm al Bayan, Ilm al Ma’ani and Ilm al Badi’.

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Module - I: Linguistics: Definition, origin and function, Ilm al Lugha, and Fiqh al

Lugha, Areas of linguistics, Arabic dialects: ancient and surviving

Module - II: Introduction to Arabic rhetoric, History of writing in Arabic rhetoric,

Importance and divisions of rhetoric elements: Ilm al Ma'ani, Fasaha, Balagha, Style of

writing

Module - III: Introduction to al Bayan, Tashbih, Majaz, Kinaya, Introduction to al Badi'

al Muhassanat al Lafdiyya, al Muhassanat al Ma'nawiyya

Module - IV: Origin of Prosody, its history and development, contribution of Khalil bin

Ahmad Al Faraheedi, 16 Arabic meters, Types of rhymes, al Zihaf, al Illa











Text Books:

1. Fiqh al Lugah al Arabiyya by Dr. Ameel Yaqub

2. Al-Balaghat al wadihah by Ali-al-Jarim and Mustafa Amin

3. Al-Shafi fi Ilm al 'Arud wa al Qawafi, Ahmad Moulawi, N.K., al Huda

Books, Calicut, 1998


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a) Al-Arud al Wadih, Dr. Mamduh Haqqi

b) Al-Balagatul Arabia, Dr. Waleed Qassab

c) Asas al Balagha, al Zamakhshari, Dar al Ma'rifa, Beirut, 1979

d) Mizan al Dhahab Fi Sina”ah al Arabi, Sayyid Ahmad al Hashimi

e) Taysir Kafi al Tabrizi fi al Arud Wal Qawafi




2. Short note type - 10 out of 15 10 x 3 = 30 Marks

3. Scanning of Poetic verses – 4 out of 8 3 x 4 = 12 Marks


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SEMESTER - II

ARB 521 GRAMMAR & MORPHOLOGY – II Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To focus upon further developing students’ skills in speaking, listening

comprehension, reading, and writing Modern Standard Arabic.

• To enhance understanding of sophisticated grammatical structures and expand

significantly students’ knowledge of Arabic vocabulary.

• To attain the mastery over the Arabic Grammar, Syntax and Morphology of Weak

Verbs

• To enhance the translational skills from Arabic to English and Vice versa

Course Description

A continuation of first Semester, The paper is aiming to enhance proficiency in

listening, speaking, writing, and reading through the study of more elaborate

grammatical structures and exposure to more sophisticated texts. Aims

Module – I: Use of Language in advanced level, Negation, Adjective Strings, Verbs with

Two Accusatives, Doubled Roots: Phonological roots, Conditional Sentences, Existential

Sentences, Adjectival Verbs, Accusative of Cause or Purpose.

Module – II: Interrogatives, Particles of Interrogation, Demonstrative Nouns, Relative

Pronoun, Types of Predicates, Relational Adjective, ‘Kana’ and its Sisters, ‘Inna’ and its

sisters, Types of Adjectives, Case of ‘Five Nouns’, Specification, Gender.

Module – III: The Numbers, Doubled Verbs, Passive sentences, Adverbs of Time and

Place, State, Types of State, The Exceptions, Coupling, Conjunctions, Negation

Module - IV: Advanced Study of Morphology of Weak Verbs, Types of Weak Verbs,

Past, Present, Future, Imperative, Prohibition, Active and Passive, Trilateral Verbs,

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Derived Forms of Trilateral Verbs, Quadrilateral Verbs, Derived Forms of Quadrilateral

Verbs, Classification of Verbs by radical, Hamzated, Assimilated, Hollow, Defective,

Conjugate and Aplastic, Energetic mood, Noun of Instruments, Nouns of connoting the

verbs, Nomen vicis, Situational Nouns











Text Books:

1. Elementary Modern Standard Arabic - Part II (Chapters 33, 34, 37, 40, 43)

Edited by: Peter F Abboud and Earnest N McCarus, Cambridge University

Press, Cambridge, 1983.

2. Al-Qava’id al Arabiyya al Muyassara II: by Dr. Mahmud Ismail-Sini, Dr.

Ibrahim Yusuf Al Sayyid, Muhammed al Rifaee al Shaikh, King Saud

University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

3. Meezanul Mu’thallu: Muhammad Baqawi Pookottoor, Abjad Publication,

Mariyad, Malappuram - 676122


a) Al Arabiyya fi al Mawaqif al Haditha, Rahmatulla, A.I. and Others, Al Huda

Books, Calicut

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b) Al Arabiyya li al Hayat Book III & IV, Dr. Muhmud Ismail Sini & others King

Saud University, KSA

c) Al Arabiyya li al Nashi'in, Sini, Mahmud Ismail & Others, (1983), Book IV,

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Ministry of Education

d) Al Nahw al Musawwar Vol III, Faizal Hussain (Beirut)

e) Arabic by Radio, Cairo

f) Arabic for Travellers, Bertliz, Switzerland

g) Durusun Fi al Arabiyya, London: Linguaphone Institute

h) From the Treasures of Arabic Morphology, Moulana Ebrahim Muhammad,

Academy for Islamic Research, Madrasah In’amiyyah, Camperdown, South Africa

i) Kithab al Meezan, Ajnas al Sugra & Ajnas al Kubra, Tirurangadi Book Stall,

Edumart, Calicut

j) Modern Literary Arabic, David Cowan, School of Oriental and African Studies,

University of London, S. Chand and Company, New Delhi

k) Modern Written Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar, Elsaid Badwi, Michael G.

Carter and Adrian Gully, Routledge Taylors and Francis Group, London and New

York

l) Sampurna Arabi Vyakaranam, Abdul Kalam Faizy, Capital International, 2003

m) Taqwimu llm al lughah al Arabiyy al Hadith, Abdul Haque Shuja’at Ali







(Arabic to English & Vise versa)

ARB 522 HISTORY OF ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

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• To study the Islamic history, civilization, culture and the history of Muslim

societies

• To develop a critical understanding of methods, procedures, current issues,

debates and materials appropriate to the study of Islamic History and Civilization

• To provide a socio-political background to the study of Islamic sciences and

intellectual history, to introduce students to the lively discussion of ‘Islamic

decline’

• to encourage viewing Islamic history and civilization as part of world history

Course Description

The course is a broad survey of the history and civilization of Islam from its rise in

the seventh century to the contemporary period, with special emphasis on the

critical turning points in the evolvement of Islamic societies and the emergence of

various Islamic dynasties and states. It discusses the background against which each

of these empires emerged, their expansion and contributions to the Islamic

experience

Module – I: Establishment of Islamic Empire, Expansion of Islam, al Khulafa al

Rashidun, Umayya, Abbasiyya

Module – II: Truth and Phenomena of urbanization, prosperity of Islamic culture

Module – III: New Branches of knowledge in Islam

Module – IV: Strata of People before Islam, Cultural heritage of Islamic State





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Text Books:

1. Tarikh al Thamaddun Al Islami (P 35 - 58 from Volume 1), Jurji Zaidan,

hindawi, Madeena Nasr, Cairo, Egypt, 2012





4. Tarikh al Thamaddun Al Islami (P 13 – 25 & 69 - 102 from Volume 5), Jurji

Zaidan, hindawi, Madeena Nasr, Cairo, Egypt, 2012


a) Al Saqafath al Islamiyya Fi al Hind, Abdul Hayy al Hasani

b) Fajr al Islam, Ahmed Ameen, Al Nahda, 1975

c) Tarikh al Thamaddun Al Islami, Jurji Zaidan, hindawi, Madeena Nasr, Cairo,

Egypt, 2012

d) Zuha al Islam, Ahmed Ameen, Al Nahda, 1999

e) Zuhar al Islam, Ahmed Ameen, Al Nahda, 1999






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4. Essay type questions – 2 out of 4 2 x 10 = 20 Marks

ARB 523 MEDIEVAL ARABIC LITERATURE Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:


670 AD to 1798 AD

• To understand the social structure of the Medieval period through the prose and

poetry

• To Study the Development of poetic genres

• To analyze the literary works, authors, movements and trends through various

dynasties

Course Description

The paper studies outstanding aspects of Arabic literature of the medieval period,

such as literature and popular culture, arts, religion, nationalism, politics, genres

and movements. The course comprises an appreciative, critical and analytical

study of medieval prose and poetry. It involves the detailed biography of Poets and

Writers of then period.

Module - I: The beginning of Umayyath Khilafa, Society and Culture of medieval

period, Development of Arabic Literature (Prose and Poetry), Khitabath, Rasa’il,

Maqamat, Characteristics of Umayyad political poetry; Hija and Fakhr development of

Ghazals during this period, Biographies of Writers and Poets.

Module - II: The beginning of Abbasid Khilafa, Oratory and orators, salient features and

themes, position of writers in the Abbasid society, Development of New genres,

Translation Movement, Important rulers in Abbasid Period. Development of new forms

of poetry: Ghilmaniyyat, Zuhdiyyat, Khamriyyat, Tardiyyat, Ghazal, Wasf, political

poetry, poetry of guidance, Development of Arabic literature in Spain.

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Module - III: Educational, Intellectual and Artistic movement during Abbasid period,

Emergence of Arab Philosophers, philosophers, historians and scientists such as Imam al

Ghazzali, al Tabari, al Kindi, Ibn Sina, al Razi, al Farabi, al Mas'udi, Ibn Batuta, al

Khawarazmi, Jabir ibn Hayyan.

Module - IV: Prose and poetry during Fatimid, Ayyobid, Mamlook and Ottoman periods,

well-known literary figures and important works, Ibn Khaldun and his Muqaddima, Ibn

Khallikan, Idressi, Ibn Bathutha, Imam al Busiri, Ibn Kathir











Text Books:

Prose:

a) Khutabah Ziyad Bin Abeehi (P 91 - 94) from Mukhtarath min Adab al Arabi


Bardubai, UAE, 1994

b) Kuthuba Hajjaj bin Yusuf al Saqafi (P 97 - 100) from Mukhtarath min Adab

al Arabi Walid Qasab, and Hashim Manna, Dar al Qalam li al Nashri Wa al

Thawseeh, Bardubai, UAE, 1994

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c) Risala Abdil Hameed al Kathib, (P 101 - 102) from Mukhtarath min Adab al

Arabi, Walid Qasab, and Hashim Manna, Dar al Qalam li al Nashri Wa al

Thawseeh, Bardubai, UAE, 1994

d) Athyabu Tha’amin wa Ash’aru Baithin by Abul Faraj al Isbahani, Mukhtarath

min Adab al Arab - Volume - II, (P 67 – 69), Abul Hassan Ali al Nadwi,

Muassassathu al sahafathi wa al Nasr, Lucknow

e) Kithabun Yanubu an Katha’ibu by Ibn al Ameed, Mukhtarath min Adab al

Arab - Volume - II, (P 70 – 73), Abul Hassan Ali al Nadwi, Muassassathu al

sahafathi wa al Nasr, Lucknow

f) Al Maqamath al Bagdadiyya by Badee al Zaman al Hamadani, (P 161 - 164)

from Mukhtarath min Adab al Arabi Walid Qasab, and Hashim Manna, Dar al


Poetry:

a) Qasidathu Mutha Nabbi fee madhi Saif al Dawla, (16 Lines), (P 129 - 131)

from Mukhtarath min Adab al Arabi Walid Qasab, and Hashim Manna, Dar al


b) Qasidathu Burda by Imam al Booseeri, (17 Lines), (P 171 - 172) from

Mukhtarath min Adab al Arabi Walid Qasab, and Hashim Manna, Dar al Qalam

li al Nashri Wa al Thawseeh, Bardubai, UAE, 1994


a) Al Shi’r wa al Shu’ara’, Ibn Quthaiba

b) Al-Jami' fi Tarikh al Adab al Arabi, al Adab al Qadim, Hanna Fakhuri, Dar al Jil,

Beirut

c) Kithab al Agani, Abul Faraj al Isbahani

d) Tarikh Adab al Lughat al Arabiyya, Jurji Zaydan, Part I, Dar al Hilal, Cairo

e) Tarikh al Adab al Arabi, Carl Brockleman

f) Tarikh ul-Adab il-Arabi, Ahamed Hasan al Zayyat, Darul Marifa, Beirut

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g) Tarikh al Adab al Arabi, Vol I, Umar Farrukh, Cairo: Dar al Ilm li al Malayin

h) Tarikh al Adab al Arabi: al Asr al jahili & al Asr al Islami (1992), Shawqi Dayf,

Cairo: Dar al Ma'arif

i) Thabaqath al Shu’ara’, Ibn Salam al Jumahi








ARB 524 LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To get the students acquainted with the basic concepts and functional knowledge

in the field of informatics

• To generate awareness about effective use of Social networks and internet

• To train and enable the students to use digital knowledge resources in learning

• To provide training in using various computer applications in Arabic

Course Description

The paper helps the students to get acquainted with the basic concepts and

functional knowledge in the field of informatics. It equips the students to use

various computer applications in Arabic

Module – I: Fundamentals of Information Technology, Computer input and output

devices, Computer components, Hardware & Software

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Module - II: History of Computer, Computer generations, Operating systems, Networks,

Internet in Arabic, E-mail, Website and Portals

Module - III: MS Office: Ms-Word, Ms-Excel, Ms-Power Point, Word processing in

Arabic, Interaction with language experts around the world, On-line translation, Data

Entry in Arabic











Text Books:

a. Al Hasoob wa Mabadiuhu, Dr. T.A. Abdul Majeed, P. Subair and P.M. Abbas,

Al Huda Publication, Calicut


a) Computer Dictionaries: English Arabic, Arab Scientific Publishers, Beirut.

b) Computer Parijayavum Prayogavum, Achuth S. Nair, State Institute of Languages,

Trivandrum

c) Information Text Books, Achuth S. Nair, State Institute of Languages, Trivandrum

d) Introduction in Information Technology, V. Rajan

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Summative Assessment: 2 Hour written examination & 1 Hour practical examination


(Theory: 40 & Practical: 20)


2. Short note type - 3 out of 5 (in English) 3 x 5 = 15 Marks

3. Short note type - 3 out of 5 (in Arabic) 3 x 5 = 15 Marks

4. Practical 1 out of 2 (in English) 1 x 10 = 10 Marks

5. Practical 1 out of 2 (in Arabic) 1 x 10 = 10 Marks

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SEMESTER - III

ARB 531 INDO ARABIC LITERATURE Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To mark out the Historical background of Indo Arab Relations

• To study the development of Arabic literature in Indian Sub-continent

• To focus on critical and analytical knowledge of Arabic writings in India

• To compare the literary works of Middle East literature and Indian Arabic

literature

• To have a detailed study over the Arabic works written in Kerala and its authors

Course Description

The paper focuses on the historical background of Indo Arab Relations, the

development of Arabic language and literature in India, Indian works in Arabic in

the field of Islamic Sciences and their authors, the role of Educational institutions

and religious organizations in the development of Arabic language in India

Module – I: History of Indo-Arab relations, Development of Arabic language and

literature in India

Module – II: A general survey of Indian contribution and works in Arabic in the field of

Arabic and Islamic sciences like literature, Tafsir, Hadith, Jurisprudence, Grammar,

Biography, History, Philosophy, Theology, Linguistics, Poetics and General science

Module – III: Development of Arabic Studies in India, The role of Arabic institutions,

movements, organizations in Arabic studies like Dar al Uloom Deoband, Nadwat al lama

Lecknow, Da'ira al Ma'arif Hyderabad, Baqiyat al Salihat Vellore

Module – IV: Contribution of notable personalities to Arabic and Islamic literature like

Shah Valiyyullah al Dahlawi, Ghulam Ali Azad al Bilgrami, Anwar Shah al Kashmiri,

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Abd al Haqq al Muhaddis al Dahlawi, Abd al Hayy al Hasni, Zayn al Din al Makhdum al

Saghir, Fadl Haqq Khayrubadi, Fayd al Hasan Saharanburi, al Qadi Umar al Bilanquti,

Siddiq Hasan Khan al Kanuji, Shybli al Nu'mani, al Sayyid Sulaiman al Nadwi, Mas'ud

Alam al Nadwi, Abu al Hasan Ali al Nadwi, Abu Layla Muhammad bin Meeran, Dr.

Mohiyi al Din al Aluwaiy, Muhammad Wadih Rashid al Nadwi, Muhammad al Rabi' al

Nadwi

Module – V: Development of Arabic education in Kerala and Centers of Arabic Studies,

a general survey of Arabic literature, Prominent Arabic writers and poets and their works











Text Books:

Prose:

1) Tuhfat al Mujahideen by Zainuddin Makhdum

2) Musahamat al Hind fi al Nathr al Arabi khilal al Qarn al 'Ishrin (P 101-265) by

Ashfaq Ahmad, New Delhi, 2003

3) Thareekh al Silath Baina al Hind wa al biad al Arabiyya (P 252-267) by Dr.

Muhammed Ismail al Nadwi, Dar al Fathah, Beirut

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4) Al-Muslimoona fi al Hind by Abul Hasan Ali al Nadwi, Dar al Fatah, Damascus,

1962

5) Ar-Raheeq al Makhtum (P 579-614) by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri, Rabitha al

Alam al Islami, Makkah, KSA

Poetry:

1) Madhu al Nabi: Al Diwan al Thani (First 20 Line Only) by Gulam Ali Azad al

Bilgrami (Hassan al Hind)

2) Al Qasida al Lamiyya (First 20 Line Only) by Abdul Muqthadir al Kindi

3) Athyabu al Nagami Fi Madhi Sayyid al Arabi wa al Ajam (First 20 Line Only)

by Shah Waliyullah Al Dahlawi


a) A’lam al Muallifeena Bi al Arabiyya fi al Bilad al Hindiyya, Jamaluddin Faruki

and Others, Al Majid Center, Dubai, 2013

b) Al Da’wat al Islamiyya wa Tatawwaruha fi Shibh al Qarrat al Hindiyya,

Muhiyiddin Aluway, Dar al Qalam, Damascus, 1986

c) Al Muslimuna fi Kairala, Abdul Ghafoor Abdullah al Qasimi, Matba’a Akmal,

Malappuram, 2000

d) Al Saqafath al Islamiyya Fi al Hind, Abdul Hayy al Hasani

e) al Shi’r al Arabi fi Kairala: Mabdauhu wa Thathawwuruhu, Dr. Veeran

Mohyideen, Arabnet, Calicut, 2003

f) An intellectual history of Islam in India, Azeez Ahmad

g) Arabi Sahityatinu Keralatinte Sambhavana, Dr. K.M. Muhammad, Ashrafi Books,

Malappuram, 2005

h) Islam in India, Christien W. Troll, Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi

i) Islam in Kerala, Abdul Samad, Laurel Publishers, Kollam, 1998

j) Mada Khasira al Alam bi Inhithwathi al Muslimeen, Abul Hasan Ali al Nadwi

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k) Manahij al Dirasath al Arabiyya Fi al Hind, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Husain al

Nadwi, 26, CIEFL, Hyderabad, 500 007

l) Muqawamat al Isti’mar al Burtighali fi Malaybar, Abu Bakar Muhammad, Calicut:

Al Huda Books, 2007

m) Nuzhathul Khawathir wa Bahjath al Masami’ wa al Nawalir (Al I’lam Biman fi

Tarikh al Hindi min al A’lam), Abdul Hayy al Hasani

n) Rijal al Fikri wa al Da’wa, Abul Hasan Ali al Nadwi

o) Rijal al Hind wa al Sind, Qali Ath-har al Mubarakfuri

p) Subhath al Marjan fi Athaari Hindustan, Gulam Ali Azad al Bilgrami (Hassan al

Hind)








ARB 532 HISTORY OF MODERN ARAB WORLD Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To provide adequate opportunities to know the Arab world

• To train about the language, history, culture, politics and economics of the

contemporary Arab world

• To study the history of the Arab Countries from Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt to

the 21st Century

• To study the issues and concerns of the contemporary Arab world such as Arab

Spring, Palestine Issue and Political upheavals

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• To introduce the Arab countries like Egypt, Iraq, Jordon, Kuwait, Oman,

Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen

Course Description

The paper gives a brief introduction to the history of the states in Arabian

Peninsula. It provide basic information about the language, history, culture,

politics and economics of the contemporary Arab world and the factors led to the

formation of Arab countries in Asia and Africa

Module – I: Outline and history of the Modern Arab World, Geographical &

Demographical sketches of Arab World

Module – II: Political History of the Arab world, Ottoman Empire: Its establishment and

decline, Arab renaissance, reform movements in Arab countries, Islamic reform

movements, Political, religious and intellectual awakening

Module – III: Special Study on Egypt and Palestine, The Palestine issue, its origin and

history, The Modern Egypt, its founders

Module – IV: Political Scenario of the Current Arab World, The kingdom of Saudi

Arabia, Its origin and history, History of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, United Arab

Emirates, Yemen, Gulf Cooperation Council (G.C.C), Political upheavals









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Text Books:

A. Tarikh al ‘Alam al ‘Arabi al Mu’asir, Dr. Ismail Ahmad Yaghi, Maktaba al

Abikan, Riyadh, 2000


a) A History of Modern Middle East, Nokshoy C Chatterji

b) A Literary History of the Arabs, Nichelson History of the Arabs by P.K. Hitti

c) A short History of Middle East, G F Kirk

d) Aalam al Arab –Naqoola Ziyaadah

e) Al-Arab al Hadith

f) Al-Tarikh al Islam, Mahmud Shakir Vols-10-22 Beirut

g) Taareekhu al Arab al Hadeeth, Abd al Kareem Mahmood Gharaaibah

h) The Arab Awakenonh, George Antonius

i) The Arab World Today, more Berger

j) The Mahammadar World of Today, Zwemar

k) The Middle east-Histort, Fisher S.N

l) The Principles of Arabic Rhetoric and Prosody, M.Ziaul Haque



1) 11 Objective type questions 11 x 1 = 11 Marks

2) Short note type- 5 out of 8 5 x 3 = 15 Marks

3) Paragraph type – 4 out of 8 4 x 4 = 16 Marks

4) Essay Type – 2 out of 4 2 x 9 = 18 Marks

ARB 533 MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

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1798 to 1975

• To survey the changes in the Arabic literature brought by renaissance

• To analyze the literary works, authors, movements and trends in Arabic literature

in various countries

• To review the influence of western literature and culture in the Arabic literature

Course Description

The paper attempts to portray the outstanding aspects of Arabic literature of the

modern period. It highlights an appreciative, critical and analytical study of

modern prose and poetry. The paper includes the detailed description of modern

literary movements and schools as well as the biographies of Poets, Writers and

Critics of the period.

Module - I: Emergence of Modern Arabic Literature, Renaissance, Developmental

activities during the period of Muhammed Ali Pasha

Module - II: Mihjar Literature, Rabitha al Qalamiyya, Usbath al Andalusiyya, Rabitha al

Adabiyya, Jibran Khalil Jibran, Iliya Abu Mazi

Module - III: Deewan Group, Appolo movement, Development of different forms of

Prose literature, Fiction, Short story, Novel, Drama, Arabic Cinema

Module - VI: Development of Modern Poetry in various Arab countries, Salient features

of Modern Arabic Poetry, Women Poets in Modern Poetry, A brief account of prominent

modern Arabic poets and their works. Free verses, Dramatic Poetry, Blank Verses,

Biographies of Famous writers




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Text Books:

Prose:

1) Mir’at-ul Islam (Al Kithab Al Awwal only Page: 05 – 118), by Dr. Taha Husain

2) Al Liss wa al Kilab by Naguib Mahfouz

3) Meeladu Bathal by Tawfiq al Hakkim

4) Baynee wa Baynaka by Yahya Haqqi

5) Risalat al Ghufran By Mustafa Lutfi Al Manfaluthi

6) Al Ajnihath al Muthakassira by Jibran Kaleel Jibran

7) Mir’at thaammuli fil Umoor by Aesha Tymuriya

8) Qalbu imra’athin by Najib Kilani

9) Al Lugath wa al Deenu wa al Adathu by Musthafa Sadiq al Rafi’e

Poetry:

1. Umar Mukhtar by Ahmad Shouqi

2. Sarandeep by Mahmud Sami Al Barudi

3. Muhammadur Rasoolullahi by Ali al Jarim

4. Ila al Umma al Arabiyya by Mahruf al Razafi

5. Al Hayath wa al Hurriyya by Abul Qasim al Shabbi

6. Falastheen by Iliya Abu Mali

7. Al Lugath al Arabiyya by Hafiz Ibrahim

8. Lanafthariq by Nazik al Malaika

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9. Shu’ara al Arl al Mu’thalla by Nizar Qabbani


a) Al Ittijahat al Adabiyyah fi al Alam al Arabiyy al Hadith, Dr. Anis al Maqdasiyy

b) Al Shi’r wa al Shu’ara’, Ibn Quthaiba

c) Al Jami’ fi Tarikh al Adab al Arabi: al Adab al Qadim, Hanna Fakhuri, Dar al Jil,

Beirut

d) Kithab al Agani, Abul Faraj al Isbahani

e) Tarikh Adab al Lughat al Arabiyya, Jurji Zaydan, Dar al Hilal, Cairo

f) Tarikh al Adab al Arabi, Carl Brockleman

g) Tarikh al Adab al Arabi, Umar Farrukh, Dar al Ilm li al Malayin, Cairo

h) Tarikh al Adab al Arabi: al Asr al jahili & al Asr al Islami, Shawqi Dayf, Dar al

Ma’arif, Cairo, 1992

i) Tarikh ul-Adab il-Arabi, Ahamed Hasan al Zayyat, Darul Marifa, Beirut

j) Thabaqath al Shu’ara’, Ibn Salam al Jumahi








ARB 534 LITERARY CRITICISM Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To attain a thorough understanding about what is literature and what is its role in

the modern life and society

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• To familiarize students the basic and accepted principles of literary criticism in a

very objective manner.

• To introduce the history of Arabic Literary criticism and its development through

different ages

• To shed light upon the eminent critics and their works

Course Description

This Course is a study of the History of Arabic Literary Criticism from its early

age to the modern age. There will be case studies of different movements, schools

and some critics like Ben Salam, Ibn Qutaiba, al Jahiz, al Qadi al Jurjani, Abbas

Mahmood Al Aqad, Thaha Hussain, Shauqi Daif and Contemporary Critics in

terms of their contributions to Literary Criticism

Module – I: Definition and Classification of ‘Adab’, Definition and Classification of

‘Naqd’. Merits and demerits of criticism

Module – II: Elements of Literature, Prose, Poetry, Drama, Novel, Short story, Fiction,

Influence of Quran and Hadith on Criticism

Module – III: Development of Classical Arabic literary criticism: origin and

development of criticism during pre-Islamic period, Approach of Islam and Qur’an

towards literature, Criticism during Umayyad period, Sukayna and Ibn Atiq, Naqa’id

poetry, Criticism and rhetoric, origin of objective criticism during the Abbasid period

Module – IV: Kinds of Naqd focusing on Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Socialistic

Realism, Naturalism, Existentialism, Structuralism and Post Modernism, Approach of

Arab world to the Mahjar literature – Islamic literary criticism, Linguistic and Structural

criticism in Arabic, Contemporary Arabic literary criticism, Psychological criticism,

Schools of Criticism in modern period: Appollo, Diwan, Rabitha Al Qalamiyya, Usbathul

Andalusiyya

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Module – V: Ibn Sallam, al Jahiz and Ibn-Qutayba, Qudama ibn Ja’far and al Amidi,

Controversy over Abu Tammam and al Mutanabbi, Abu Hilal al Askari, Ibn Rashiq,

Abdul Azeez al Jujani, Abd al Qahir al Jurjani, Ibn Shuhayd, Hazim al Qartajanni and Ibn

khaldun, Muhammad Mandur, Ahmad Amin, Rashad Rushdi, Shawqi Dayf, Sayyid

Qutub, Anwar al Jundi











Text Books:

I. Al Adab Al Arabi Bayna Arlin wa Naqd, Sayyed Rabih Hassan al Nadwi,

Luknow

II. al Adabu Wa al Naqd Inda al Arab, Dr. A.I. Rahmathullah, al Huda Book stall,

Calicut


a) Al-Adab Wa Madhaahibuhu, Muhammad mandoor

b) AlFann wa Madhaahibuhu Fee al Nathr al Arabiyy, Dr. Shouqi Dayf

c) Al-Naqd al Adabiyy, Ahamad Ameen

d) Al-Naqd al Manhaji Ind al Arab, Dr. Muhammad Mandoor

e) Diraasah Adabiyyah, Ahammad haykal

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f) Diraasah Fee al Naqd al Adabiyyah, Faisal Shukri

g) Fann al Adab, Muhamood Taymoor

h) Fann al Adab, Taweeq al Hakeem

i) Fann al Maqaalah, Dr. Muhammad Yoosuf Najm

j) Fann al Qasa, Dr. Mahmood Taymoor

k) Fee al Naqd al Adabiyy, Dr. Shouqi Dayf

l) Min Funoon al Adab: al Masrahiyyah, Dr. Abd al Qaadir al Qutt

m) Taareekh al Naqd al Adabiyy Ind al Arab, Ihsaan Abbaas

n) Usool al Naqd al Adabiyy, Ahmas al Shaaib

o) Usool al Naqd al Adabiyy, Seyyid Qutab





3. Short note on critics / works / movements /

Theories / trends – 4 out of 8 4 x 4 = 16 Marks


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SEMESTER – IV

ARB 541 TRANSLATION AND SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To introduce students the interdisciplinary approaches in the field including the

impact of deconstruction, gender studies and postcolonial theory

• To explore the cultural and political agendas of translation through selected

theoretical texts

• To introduce students to various translation practices (adaptation, re-writing, etc.)

Course Description

This course focuses on developments in the field of translation studies since the

1970s when translation became increasingly conceptualized as cultural transfer

rather than a linguistic operation. It is aiming at introducing the students to various

translation practices (adaptation, re-writing, etc.) and will look at the translator’s

role in society, and translation as an agent of social change

Module – I: Translation and its History, Elements of Translation, Punctuation, Methods

of Translation

Module – II: Translation from Arabic to English, (Editorials, Short articles, Letters)

Module – III: Translation from English to Arabic, (Editorials, Short articles, Letters)

Module – IV: Training for Simultaneous Interpretation via CDs, DVDs, Video and

Audio Clippings



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Text Books:

1. Al Tharjuman al Muhtharif (Page 15 – 76), R. Machlab, R. Kobaya, Dar al

Rathib al Jamia, Beirut. Lebanon

2. A new Arabic grammar of the written language (Exercises 20-80 only),

Haywood, J.A. and Nahmad, H.M., London: Lund Humphries

3. Yakusha: Audio and video collections, Compiled and prepared by Ali Noufal. K

of Farook College and Sabique M.K of M.E.S. Mampad College


a) A Linguistic Theory of Translation – Dr. K.P Abubacker

b) A New Arabic Grammar by H.M. Nahmad & J.A. Haywood

c) Approaches to Translation-Newmark, Peter

d) Arabic Composition and Translation – Dr. A Abdul Jabbar

e) Scientific and Technical Translation – Pichuk, Isdore

f) The Art of Translation – Thedore Savory

g) The Nature of Translation- Holmes J.S

h) The Theory and Practice of Translation-Nida Eugene A & C.R Taber

i) Translation and Translating-Bell R.T

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1. Translation of Sentences – 5 out of 8 5 x 2 = 10 Marks

(Arabic to English)

2. Translation of Sentences – 5 out of 8 5 x 2 = 10 Marks

(English to Arabic)

3. Translation of Paragraphs – 2 out of 4 2 x 5 = 10 Marks

(Arabic to English)

4. Translation of Paragraphs – 2 out of 4 2 x 5 = 10 Marks

(English to Arabic)


(Arabic to English)


(English to Arabic)

ARB 542 METHODOLOGY OF TEACHING ARABIC Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To understand different Approaches, Methods, Techniques of Teaching Arabic

• To acquire proficiency in transacting the lesson within the time slots allotted to

them

• To update on the present practices of learning and instruction practiced in the state

schools of Kerala

• To explore new possibilities of teaching and learning

Course Description

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The paper helps the students to understand different Approaches, Methods and

Techniques of Teaching Arabic and to acquire proficiency in transacting the

lesson within the time slots allotted to them

Module – I: Problems of learning foreign language, language learning approaches:

Behaviorism, Cognitivism, constructivism, social constructivism, Neuro-linguistic

theories,

Module – II: Language acquisition skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing,

techniques to attain these skills, different kinds of reading, methods of teaching to read,

importance of pronunciation sounds

Module – III: General principles and methods of Arabic language, Merits and demerits

of the methods, traditional and modern, translation method, direct method, structural

approach, communicative approach, bilingual approach, discussion method, role play,

play way, dramatization project method, learning by doing

Module – IV: Teaching of prose, aims of teaching prose, methods of reading prose,

different types of prose lessons, Teaching of poetry, aims of teaching poetry, methods of

teaching poetry, Grammar, place of grammar, approaches and methods: functional,

formal, inductive, deductive, composition and creative works, Vocabulary strengthening,

critical pedagogy, issue based learning, discourse oriented, group learning, co-operative

learning, collaborative learning, multiple level learning









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Text Books:

1. Tara’iq al Thadrees al Amma wa Taqweemuha by Abdul Hayy Ahmad al

Subahi & Muhammed bin Abdullah al Qassayama

2. Asalibu Tadrisi al Lughah al Arabiyya by Dr. Muhammad Ali al Khawli,

K.S.A, 1982


a) Al Muwajjahul Ameli li Mudarrisi Luga Al Arabiyya: Abdul Haleem Ibrahim.

Daru Maarif Egypt.

b) Al Muwajjahul Ameli li Muderrisi Luga Al Arabiyya: Abid Thoufeeqe Al hasmi,

Al Risala Publishing House Bairoot Lebanon

c) Al Thaeleemu wa al tharbiyathuhu: Darul Ilmu Li al Mallayeen, Beirut

d) Al Tharbiyathu wa Thuruqu al thedrees, Prof. Salih Abdul Azeez, Dr. Abdul

Azeez & Abdul Majeed

e) An easy way to commercial and journalistic Arabic: Mohammed Ismail

Mujaddidi. Sahara Publications, Markaz complex, Calicut

f) An Introduction to language and communication, Publisher Prentice hall

g) Maseerath al Fekri al tharbawiyyi Abara Althareek, Mahmud al Sayyid al Sultan,

Dar Al Shurook, 2007

h) Ta’lim al Lughat al Arabiyya, Dr.Husayn Sulaiman, Darul Ma’arif, Cario, 1969

i) Tadrisu al Lughati al Arabiyya, Dr. Muhammad Salahuddin, Darul-Ma’arif, Cario,

1971

j) Thaeleem al Allugath al Arabiyya Baina al Nalriyathi Wa al Thathbeek, Dr.

Hassen Shahatha

k) Thaeleem al Lugath al Arabiyya wa al Deenul al Islamiyyi, Dr. Hussain Sulaiman

Fourath, Darul Marif, Egypt

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l) The teaching of language: a practical approach, B.N. Safaya

m) Thuruq al Thadrees al Lugath al Arabiyya, Dr. Jawdath Alrikabi, Darul Fikir

n) Writing Arabic: A Practical Introduction to Ruqah Script: T.F. Mitchell, Oxford

University Press, London, 1978







ARB 543 CONTEMPORARY ARABIC LITERATURE Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To make the students familiar in general terms with the range of themes,

techniques and genres to be found in Modern and Contemporary Arabic literature

(Since 1975 AD)

• To introduce students to the richest and most rewarding areas of Arabic Literature

• To relate the processes of change and search for personal and cultural identity on

the literary level to the projects of change in the political and social spheres

• To make the students acquainted with the influences from society politics and

culture over the contemporary literature

Course Description

The course is designed to sharpen students’ awareness of the significance of

literature to the understanding of vital cultural, social and political processes, and

especially to the quest for modernity and modernization in Arab societies. Students

are expected to be able to apply a range of critical theories to the literature in

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question and to demonstrate their ability in their course work essays. The students

will be familiar with different types of literary works in Arabic language.

Module - I: Emergence of Contemporary Arabic Literature, Themes and trends in

contemporary Arabic literature, influences of western literature over Arabic literature,

Socio political impacts of Contemporary Arabic Literature, Literary schools, impact of

9/11 over Arabic literature.

Module - II: Culture and Society of the Contemporary Arab Middle East, Contemporary

Arab Women’s Literature, Contemporary Arabic Literature in Translation, Contemporary

Fiction in Arabic, Readings in Contemporary Arabic Literature during and after of Arabic

Spring, Contemporary literary ‘events’, identity, colonialism, postcolonialism,

nationalism, gender, class and civil wars

Module - III: Contemporary Arabic Prose, Literary figures, Booker Prize Winners,

Trends and Movements in Contemporary Arabic Literature, Contemporary Arabic

theatres and Drama, Novel, Short Story, Fiction, Contemporary Arab Journals, Channels,

Arabic Film

Module - VI: Development of Contemporary Poetry in various Arab countries, Political

Poems, Salient features of Contemporary Arabic Poetry, Free Poets, Women Poets in

Contemporary Poetry, A brief account of prominent Contemporary Arabic poets and their

works. Free verses, Dramatic Poetry, Blank Verses, Biographies of Famous writers







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Text Books:

Prose:

1. Dahaya al Hubb by Aaidh ibn Abdullah al Qarni

2. Isthamthi’ Bi Hayathika (P 15 - 30) by Muhammed bin Abdur Rahman al

Areefi, Dar al Nur, Cairo, 2009

3. Kasbani La Yalthaqiyani by Abdur Rahman bin Abdul Azeez al Sudais Kaukaba

al Kaukaba (P 105-115)

4. Al Zawaaju Hasaanathun wa ibthihajun by Abdur Rahman bin Abdul Azeez al

Sudais Kaukaba al Kaukaba (P 142-153)

5. Hanthala's Journey from Slumber to Consciousness, Saadallah Wannous, Dar

al Adab, Beirut

Poetry:

1. Hasir Hisaraka by Mahmood Darwesh

2. Thaqaddamuu by Samih al Qasim

3. Ila Allahi arfau ainee by Samih al Qasim

4. Muslimun by Yusuf al Qarlawi

5. Qablan ala al Jamru by Shihab Ganim


a) Adab al Mahjar, Dr.Nazmi abd al Badee Muhammad

b) Aelaam al Nathr wa al Shier Fee al Asr al Hadeeth, Muhammad Yoosuf Kokan (3

Volumes)

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c) Al-Adab al Arabiyy al Muaasir Fee Misr, Dr. Shouqi Dayf

d) Al-Funoon al Adabiyyah wa A’laamuha Fee Nahdah al Arabiyyah al Hadeeth,

Anees al Maqdisiyy

e) Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity, Viola Shafik, The American

University in Cairo Press, 2007

f) Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective,

Elizabeth S. Kassab, NY: Columbia University Press, 2010

g) Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression in Context, Anastasia

Valassopoulos, Routledge, 2007

h) Fee al Adab al Hadeeth, Umar al Dasooqi

i) Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892-2008, Hoda Elsadda, Syracuse

University Press, 2012

j) Modern Arabic Literature, Ismat Mahdi, Hyderabad, 1983

k) Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective, Anna Ball,

Routledge, 2012

l) Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition,

Wen-Chin Ouyang, Edinburgh University Press, 2013

m) Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature, Culture, and Empire, Deborah

Starr, Routledge, 2009

n) Tatawwur al Adab al Hadeeth fee Misr, Ahmad Haykal

o) The Experimental Arabic Novel: Postcolonial Literary Modernism in the Levant,

Stefan G Meyer, State University of New York Press, 2000

p) Twentieth Century Literary Theory: A Reader, K.M. Newton, Palgrave, 1997







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ARB 544 DISSERTATION & VIVA-VOCE Credit - 4

It should be about 50 written pages and properly bound. The students should be

familiar with recent research methodology. The topics of dissertation should be

based on Arabic language, Culture, History and Literature. The dissertations should

have originality. Translation of work will be permitted. Every student should have a

guide or supervising teacher. Dissertations to be submitted at the end of Semester

IV, The work can be started in Semester III

Mark Distribution

Dissertation : 75

Viva-voce : 25

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ELECTIVES

ELECTIVES


1 ARB 5011 Arabic for Travelers 4

2 ARB 5012 Islamic Literature in Arabic 4

3 ARB 5013 Arabic Literature in Kerala 4

ELECTIVES: SEMESTER – II

4 ARB 5021 Commercial Arabic 4

5 ARB 5022 Modern Arabic Literature in Saudi Arabia 4

6 ARB 5023 Arabic Literature in Spain 4

ELECTIVES: SEMESTER – III

7 ARB 5031 Research Methodology 4

8 ARB 5032 Drama, Biography and Fiction in Arabic 4

9 ARB 5033 Mahjar Literature 4

ELECTIVES: SEMESTER – IV

10 ARB 5041 Special Author: Naguib Mahfouz 4

11 ARB 5042 Arabic Journalism and Essay Writing 4

12 ARB 5043 Women's Writing in Arabic 4


ARB 5011 ARABIC FOR TRAVELERS Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To enable the students to speak Arabic

• To introduce the students the fundamental concepts & functions of Tourism and

Travel System

• To acquaint the words and phrases related to Tour and Travel sector

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Course Description

Under this course it is envisaged to enable the learner to converse freely and

fluently in Arabic especially during journey to Arab Countries and to acquaint with

the variations in spoken dialects. Usages in the language for different situations in

the modern living are to be taught with examples.

Module – I: Different occasions in the house like: Dealings with parents and

grandparents, elders, youngsters, small children, reception of the guests, being host,

seeing off

Module – II: Travel situations: Railway station, bus service, bus station, train fare,

airport, air travel, tourism, travel business, receptionist

Module – III: Different work situations: In the office, interviews, factory, in the shop,

business, market etc











Text Books:

a) Arabic for Your Trip - Berlitz, U.K.

b) Durusun Fil-Arabiyya by Linguaphone Institute, London

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c) Durusun Fil Arabiyya – Tamrinatun Shafawiyya, by Linguaphone Institute,

London

d) Durusun Fil Arabiyya – Tamrinatun kitabiyya by Linguaphone Institute,

London


a) A Course in Spoken Arabic, Shafi Shaikh (OUP)

b) Arabic Self Taught (Syrian), A. Hassam

c) Arabic Today, John Mace, Edinburgh University Press, London

d) Easy Steps to Functional Arabic, Dr. S.K. Bahmani

e) Introduction to Arabic, a BBC radio Course for beginners.

f) Spoken Arabic, Said Salah







ARB 5012 ISLAMIC LITERATURE IN ARABIC Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To describe the stand of Islam towards literature

• To evaluate the dimensions in relation of ideology, morals, aesthetics, creativity

and discourse with Islamic literature.

• To asses the emerging scope of Islamic literature

• To introduce eminent personalities and important works in Islamic literature

Course Description

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The paper discusses the Islamic attitude towards literature. It wants to know the

conceptual understanding of Islamic literature in view of understanding to

differentiate between the literatures on Islam. It expalines the Islamic principles

and the literature written in accordance with the Islamic values

Module – I: Islamic Literature: Meaning and Definition, the term Islamic literature and

its Fundamentals, Entrence to Islamic literature, Hero in Islamic literature, Threats of

Islamic literature, Islamic literature and commitment, Islamic literature and aesthetics,

Islamic literature and society, Creativity and Education

Module – II: The emergence of Islamic literature with new definitions, the cultural and

intellectual invasion in Islamic world: transplanting the Islamic ideals with Greek,

Persian and other concepts, Islam in defense and redesigning the progressive elements in

Islam

Module – III: Stages of the evolution of Islamic literature, Islamic Period, Umayya

Period, Abbasid Period, Modern Period, Culture and its dimensional variants,

transparency and ambiguity, external and internal, symbolic and original

Module – IV: Islamic literature and its relation with modern literary schools, System of

belief and its influences upon their literature, Islamic literature as an instrument of critical

revision of the literary domain and tool in linking the past with present, bringing Quran in

the pivotal role of literature, The concept of Islamic literature at Arab writers in the

modern era, Islamic literature writers, Muahmmed Qutub, Najeeb Kilani, Sa’d Abu Riza







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Text Books:

1) Madkhalun Ila al Adab al Islami by Dr. Najeeb Keelani


a) al Adab al Islami fi Maulu’athihi wa Musthalahathihi, Dr. Adnan Ali Rila al

Nahwi, Dar al Nahwu, Riyad, 2003

b) al Adab al Islami, Dr. Ahmad Muhammed Ali, Dar al Sahwa, Cairo, 1991

c) al Arab fi Hadaratihim wa Thaqafatihim, Umar Farrukh, Dar al Ilm li al Malayin,

Cairo, 1981

d) al Khilafa al Amawiyya, Abdul Rahman Bava, Sunni Educational Board, Calicut

e) al Mafhum al Islami al Muthamayyiz Li al Adab, A. Anvar al Jundi, Imam

Muhammed bin Saud Islamic University

f) al Thasweer al Fanniyy Li al Qur’an, Sayyid Qutub

g) 'Asr al Ma'mun, Ahmad Farid Rifa'i, Dar al Kutub al Misriyya, Cairo, 1927

h) Dirasat Tarikh al Maghrib wa al Andalus, Ahmad Mukhtar, Mu'assasa Shabab al

Jami'a

i) Duhar al Islam, Ahmad Amin, Maktaba al Nahda al Misriyya, Cairo, 1999

j) Madkhalun Ila Nalriyath al Adab al Islami, Dr. Imadudeen Khaleel

k) Mafhum al Adab al Islami fi al ‘Asr al Hadith, Adli Yaqub, International Islamic

University, Malasia, 2006

l) Manhaj al Fann al Islami, Muhammed Qutub, Dar al Shuruq, Lebanon

m) Mawsu'a Tarikh al Islam: al 'Asr al 'Abbasi, Khalid Azzam, Dar Usama, Jordan,

2003

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n) Mawsu'a Tarikh al Islam: al 'Asr al Mamluki, Mufid al Zaydi, Dar Usama, Jordan,

2003

o) Mawsu'a Tarikh al Islam: 'Asr al Nubuwwa, Abdul Hakim al Ka'abi, Dar Usama,

Jordan, 2003

p) Min Qalaya al Adab al Islami, Dr. Salih Adam Beelu, Dar al Manara, Jiddah, 1985

q) Muhadirat Tarikh Umam al Islamiyya: al Dawla al 'Abbasiyya, Muhammad Bek,

Dar Ihya' al Kutub al Arabiyya, 1930

r) Nahnu wa al Islam, Dr. Najeeb Kilani, Muassassa al Risala, Berut, 1981

s) Nalriyath al Adab al Islami, Dr. Abdul Basith Badr, Dar al Manara, Jiddah, 1985

t) Tarikh al Alam al Islami, Abdul Rahman Bava, Sunni Educational Board, Calicut,

1997

u) Tarikh 'Asri al Khilafat al Abbasiyya, Yusuf Hasan, Dar al Fikr al Mu'asar, Beirut,

1998

v) Thajarub fi al Naqdi al Adabi al Thathbeeqi, Audathulla Munee’ al Qabasi







ARB 5013 ARABIC LITERATURE IN KERALA Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To trace the Historical background of Kerala-Arab Relations

• To study the development of Arabic literature in Kerala

• To have a detailed study over the Arabic works written in Kerala and its authors

• To focus on the influence of Arabic over Malayalam

• To evaluate the literary works in Arabi-Malayalam

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Course Description

The paper focuses on the historical background of Kerala-Arab Relations, the

development of Arabic language and literature in Kerala, Kerala works in Arabic in

the field of Islamic Sciences and their authors, the role of Educational institutions

and religious organizations in the development of Arabic language and education in

Kerala.

Module – I: Historical perspective of Kerala-Arab relation, Advent of Islam to Malabar,

a general survey of Arabic literature in Kerala, Development of Arabic education in

Kerala, Development of Arabic journalism in Kerala, Future of Arabic in Kerala

Module – II: Arabic Education in Kerala, Madrasas, Arabic in general education

institutions, higher education Centers of Arabic: Government and Private

Module – III: Prominent Arabic writers and poets and their works, Makhdum Family,

Shaliyathi, Qazi family in Calicut, Umar Qali, Swadeshabhimani Vakkom Abdul Qadir

Moulavi and his journals, Muhyiddeen Always, Abu Laila Muhammed Meeran

Module – IV: Arabi Malayalam, Arabi Malayalam writers, Padappatt, Badar Kissappatt,

Muhyiddin mala, Badarul Muneer Husnul Jamal, Qazi Muhammed, Moin kutty waydyar,

Arabi Malayalam Script writing, Arabic Manuscripts in Kerala









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Text Books:

Prose:

1) Al Muslimuna fee Kairala by Abdul Ghafoor Abdullah al Qasimi, Matba’a

Akmal, Malappuram, 2000

2) Min Navabigi Ulama’i Malaybar by Abdur Rahman Al Azhari

3) Thareekh al Alam al Islami (Islam in Kerala), Abdul Rahman Bava, Sunni

Educational Board, Calicut

4) Ada’wathul Islamiya wa Thathawwuruha Fee Shibihi al Qarath al Hindiyya

(P 365-440), by Muhyiddin Alway, Dar al Qalam, Damascus, 1986

Poetry:

1) Thahreel Ahli al Iman ala Jihadi abadath al Sulban (First 20 Lines Only),

Zainudeen Makhdum al Kabeer

2) Fath al Mubeen (First 20 Lines Only), Qali Muhammed


a) A’lam al Muallifeena Bi al Arabiyya fi al Bilad al Hindiyya, Jamaluddin Faruki

and Others, Al Majid Center, Dubai, 2013

b) Al Arabu wa al Arabiyya, Abdur Rahman Al Azhari, Dar al Ta’leef, Egypt, 1964

c) Al Shi’r al Arabi fi Kairala: Mabdauhu wa Thathawwuruhu, Dr. Veeran

Mohyideen, Arabnet, Calicut, 2003

d) Arabi Sahityatinu Keralatinte Sambhavana, Dr. K.M. Muhammad, Ashrafi Books,

Malappuram, 2005

e) Islam in Kerala, Abdul Samad, Laurel Publishers, Kollam, 1998

f) Manahij al Dirasath al Arabiyya Fi al Hind, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Husain al

Nadwi, 26, CIEFL, Hyderabad, 500 007

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g) Muqawamat al Isti’mar al Burtighali fi Malaybar, Abu Bakar Muhammad, Al

Huda Books, Calicut, 2007







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ELECTIVES: SEMESTER - II

ARB 5021 COMMERCIAL ARABIC Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To introduce the job opportunities in the field of commercial Arabic

• To develop translation and correspondence skills related to various business areas

• To familiarize the translation in the areas of business transactions, contracts, bank

statements and industrial discussions.

• To enhance the capacity in handling technical language and commercial

vocabulary in the different domains

Course Description

The course is designed to equip the learner with commercial vocabulary in the

different domains and technical language. By the completion of the course the

student will be competent to translate and handle the correspondence both in

Arabic and English

Module – I: Correspondence in Arabic: Business, Educational, Official, Legal and

Governmental correspondence

Module – II: Document Translation: Certificates, Visas, Passports, Residence Permits,

Licenses, Authorizations, Court Orders, Medical and Police reports, Attestations, Forms,

Advertisements, Circulars, Invoices, Tenders, etc.

Module – III: Practice in Arabic word processing: Practice in MS Office with Arabic

applications: MS Word, MS Excel and Page Maker



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Text Books:

1. Kaifa Taktubu Rasailuka by Dr. Ruhi Balabakki (Dar-ul-iim lil Malayin, Beirut)

2. A Hand book of Commercial Arabic by Dr. Aboobacker K.P

3. Business Arabic by Dr. A.I. Rahmathullah, al Huda Books, Calicut


a) A comparison of Arabic-English syntax, Dr. A. Basheer Ahmad Jamali, Arab Net,

Calicut

b) Al-Tarjuma al Arabiyya Minha wa ilayha fi al Hind ba’da al Istiqlal, Habibullah

Khan, Dar Sulayman, Delhi, 1990

c) An Easy way to Commercial and Journalistic Arabic, Muhammad Ismail al

Mujaddidi, Sahara Publications, Calicut, 2003

d) Arabic Composition and Translation, Abdul Jabbar, N., Al Huda Books, Calicut,

2000

e) Functional Arabic, Dr. Veeran Mohyideen, Arabnet, Calicut, 2009

f) Journal Arabic, V.P. Abdul Hamid, and N.K. Abdul Halim, al Huda Books,

Calicut, 1999

g) Rasail fi Jami’il Munasabat, Dr. Ilyas al Zain (Darul Fikar al Arabi, Beirut)

h) Secretarial Practice in Arabic, Hanif Palliyath, Friend's Book,

Thiruvananthapuram, 1980

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i) Technical, Business, Legal and Journal Arabic: an academic book in translation,

Abdul Rasheed, T.P. Mohammad, al Huda Books, Calicut, 2007

j) The Commercial Arabic, V.P. Abdul Hamid and N.K. Abdul Halim, Al Huda

Books, Calicut, 2003

k) The Professional Translator by Kobaya R. Machlab, Dar al Rateb, Beirut




2) Document Translation – 3 out of 5 3 x 5 = 15 Marks

(English to Arabic)

3) Document Translation – 3 out of 5 3 x 5 = 15 Marks

(Arabic to English)

4) Letter Drafting – 3 out of 4 3 x 6 = 18 Marks

ARB 5022 MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE IN SAUDI ARABIA Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To explain political history of Modern Saudi Arabia

• To study the development of different forms in Saudi Arabia

• To compare the writings of Saudi Arabia with Magrib countries

• To shed the light over the biography of Eminent writers

Course Description

This course is intended to invite the attention of students to focus specially on the

innovative writings and the authors of Saudi Arabia. Geographical and Political

Explanation regarding Modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is also included in the

paper

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Module – I: Geographical Structure of Saudi Arabia, Formation of Modern Kingdom of

Saudi Arabia, Alu Saud, Alu Shaikh

Module - II: Prose Literature in Saudi Arabia, Novel, Short Story, Drama, Fiction,

Essay, Islamic Literature, Speeches, literary criticism, Arabic Journalism in Saudi Arabia

Module - III: Poetry in Saudi Arabia, Poetric genres, Modern Approach of Saudi writers,

Biography of famous poets, Travelogue literature

Module - IV: Women Writers from Saudi Arabia, Advanced centers of Arabic Learning

in Saudi Arabia, Blogs dealings Arabic literature, Aaidh ibn Abdullah al Qarni, Abdo

Khal, Laila al Juhani, Laila al Ohaidib, Fawziyya Abu Khalid, Rajaa al Sanea, Raja'a

Alem











Text Books:

1 Fi al Adab al Arabi al Saudi: Wa Fununuhu wa Ithijahathuhu wa Namadiju

minhu by Muhammad Ibn Salih al Shanti, Dar al Undulus, 1997

2 Madkhal Ila al Adabi al Saudiy al Mu’asir, Dr. Jameel Hamadawi


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a) Adab al Rihla fi al Mamlaka al Arabiyya al Saudiyya, Abdulla bin Ahmad al

Hammadi, 1997

b) al Adabi al Saudiy al Hadith, Dr. Muhammed Jala’ Idris, 2006

c) al Haraka al Adabiya fi al Mamlaka al Arabiyya al Sadudiya, Dr. Bakri Shaikh

Ameen, 1975

d) al Mausua al Alamiyya li al Shi’r al Arabi

e) al Mujaz fee Tharikh al Adabi al Arabi al Saudiy, Dr. Umar al Thayyib al Sasi,

1986

f) al Qissa al Qaseera fi al Saudiya, Dr. Sahmi al Hajiri

g) al Sahrau Fi al Shi’r al Arabi al Saudi, Yahya Ahmad al Zahrani

h) Fannu al Qissa fi Adabi al Saudi al Hadith, Dr. Hazmi

i) Fi al Adabi al Saudiy al Hadith, Dr. Husain Ali Muhammed, 2009

j) Surath al Adab al Saudi, Dr. Hasan bin Hijab al Hasimi







ARB 5023 ARABIC LITERATURE IN SPAIN Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To Study the Political History of Muslim Spain

• To Survey the Arabic literature in Spain (710 to 1492 AD)

• To Shed the light over the educational empowerment in Muslim Community

Course Description

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The course deals with the advent of Islam and Arabic Language in Spain. It

attempts to reveal the contributions of Muslim rulers in the construction of

Modern Spain. The paper analyses their contributions in the educational

enlightenment.

Module – I: The advent of Islam in Spain, Tariq bin Ziyad, the Muslim rule in Spain

(711-1492), The Umayyad dynasty in Spain, Other Muslim dynasties in Spain, A survey

on the Muslim period of Spain

Module – II: Development of Arabic Prose literature in Spain, Ar’rasaail wal Maqaamat,

Notable literary figures, Ibn Khaffaja, Lisanuddin ibn al Khatib, Ibn Rushd, Ibn Shuhayd,

Ibn Tufayl, Ibn al Arabi

Module – III: Development of Arabic Poetry literature in Spain: Muwashshahat and

Zajl, Ibn Hani', Ibn Zaydun, Ibn Abdi Rabba, North African and European elements in

Spanish-Arabic poetry

Module – IV: Development of Islamic sciences in Muslim Spain, Criticism in Spain, Ibn

Shuhayd











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Text Books:

1. al Adab wa al Nussus li Gair al Nathiqeena bi al Arabiyya (Volume II: P 201 -

230) by Hassan Khammees al Maleeji, King Saud University, KSA


a) al Risala al Hazliya, Ibn Zaidun

b) al Risala al Jiddiya, Ibn Zaidun

c) Al-Jami' fi Tarikh al Adab al Arabi: al Adab al Qadim (P 889 - 983), Hanna

Fakhuri, Dar al Jil, Beirut, 1986

d) History of Muslim Spain, Masudul Hasan Sabri, Adam Publishers, New Delhi

2004

e) Muslim Bharanam Spainilum Sisiliyilum, K.K. Muhammad Madani, Kerala

Bhasha Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, 1973

f) Tabaqathu al Umam, Said al Andalusi

g) Tarikh al Adab al Arabi (Parts IV & V), Dar al Ilm li al Malain, Beirut, 1981

h) Tarikh al Adab al Arabi, Ahamed Hasan al Zayyat, Darul Marifa, Beirut








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ELECTIVES: SEMESTER - III

ARB 5031 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To introduce the basic concept of research and its different types

• To illustrate the art of preparing research findings

• To impart the various stages of preparing research articles, thesis and dissertations

Course Description

The paper will act as an introductory source of research and help the students to

carry on their research systematically. It will satisfy the need of Students for

designing the outline of their dissertation, project and other research works

Module - I: Definition of research, categories of research, Literary research, General

methodology of research, Plagiarism in research

Module - II: Primary steps, Selection of a Topic, Exploring a suitable supervisor and

maintaining a healthy relation between the researcher and supervisor

Module III: Collection and compilation of data, Role of library, references, Indices,

Information sources: Primary and secondary sources, Internet sources, search engines,

Inflibnet, Primary reading, Redesigning and modification of research model

Module - IV:, Thesis writing, The conclusive stage of research, Layout of thesis,

Bibliography, Evaluation of the whole work, Inter university research collaboration





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Text Books:

a) Kaifa thakthubu bahsan jami’iyyan, Khaffaji, Abdul Mun’im & Sharaf, Abdul

Azeez, Bairut; Dar al jeel, 1998


a) Kaifa tuktabu bahthan aw risalathan, Salah-al Din Al Hawari, Dar wa maktab

Hilal, Lebanon, 2001

b) Al Bahth al Adabi, Shawqi Daif, Dar al Ma’rif, Cairo, 1986

c) MLA Hand book for writers of research papers (VIII edition), Modern language

Association of America, 2009







ARB 5032 DRAMA, BIOGRAPHY AND FICTION IN ARABIC Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To trace the origin and development of drama, biography and fiction in the Arabic

Literature

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• To examine the basic differences between the dramas in Arabic and other

languages

• To evaluate the influence of fiction and drama in modern Arabic literature

• To provide a basic knowledge about autobiographical literature in Arabic

Course Description

The paper is designed to provide the basic elements of narration in Arabic

literature. It deals with the history and development of Drama, Biography and

Fiction in Arabic along with the information regarding contemporary Arab

theaters and films.

Module – I: Drama: a new genre in Arabic literature, It’s origin and development,

Western influence, early stage plays, Trends and writers in modern Arabic drama, Social

drama, Historical drama, Comic drama, Maroon Naqqash, Saleemul Bustani, Yaqub

Sannu, Salama Hijazi, George Abyad, Poetic dramas of Ahmed Showqi, Eminent play

writers: Mahmood Taimoor, Mahumood Taimur, Master of Arabic Drama Tawfeeq al

Hakim

Module – II: Biography in Arabic, Short biographical essays, Digital Analysis of Arabic

Biographical Collections, Literary Arabic Biography, History of Autobiographical

literature, Famous Autobiography writers, Taaha Husain, al Aqqaad, Ahmad Ameen

Module – III: Short Story in Arabic: Trends and writers in modern Arabic short story:

Realistic short story in Egypt, Modern school of Arabic short story and its features,

Background of Narrative literature and fiction in Arabic literature, Social short story,

Historical short story, influence of western short stories, Translation movement of

western short stories, Advent of Arabic journalism and fiction, Early short story writers:

Salim al Bustani, Muhammad Taymur, Mustafa Lutfi al Manfaluti, Mahmud Taymur,

Yusuf Idris, Yahya Haqqi, Ihsan Abd al Quddus, Contemporary experimental short story:

Jamal al Ghaytani, Abd al Hamid Haduqa

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Module – IV: Novel in Arabic: Origin and Development of novel literature in Arabic,

western influence in Arabic novel, Trends in modern Arabic novel, Educational novel,

Social novel, Historical novel, Psychological novel, Autobiographical novel Early

translations, Modern forms of Maqamas, Muhammad al Muwaylihi, Early novels in

Lebanon and Syria, Salim al Bustani, Historical novels of Jurji Zaydan, Jubran Khalil

Jubran, Early Egyptian novels, Muhammad Husayn Haykal and ‘Zaynab’, Mahmud Tahir

Lashin, al Mazini, Taha Husayn, Tawfiq al Hakim and Mahmud Taymur, Naguib

Mahfouz and Egyptian realistic novel, Nobel prize for Arab novel, Islamic novels: Najib

Kilani, Autobiographical Novels, Issue of Colloquial and literal language in novel,

Palestine novel and Ghazzan al Kanafani, Modern experimental novels: Edward al

Kharrat, al Tayyib Salih











Text Books:

1. Heena Yasthaqeemu al Sabeel by Ali Ahmad Ba Katheer

2. Hayathee by Ahmad Ameen

3. Allah Mahabba by Ihsan Abd al Quddus


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a) al Masrahiyya: Nash’atuha wa Tarikhuha wa Usuluha, Umar Dasuqi, Dar al Fikr

al Arabi, Beirut

b) al Qissa al Qasira fi al Adab al Mu'asar, Ali al Ra'I, Dar al Hilal, Cairo

c) Encyclopaedia of Arabic Literature (Volume - II), Julie Meisami & Paul Starkey,

Routledge 37, 1998

d) Essays in Arabic Literary Biography: 1350-1850, Roger M. A. Allen and others,

Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009

e) Fi al Adab al Hadith, Umar Dasuqi, Dar al Fikr al Arabi, Cairo, 2000

f) Hawla al Masrah al Islami, Najib Kilani, Mu’assasa al Risala

g) Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology, Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Columbia

University press, New York, 2005

h) Modern Arabic Literature (1800-1970), John A. Haywood, Lund Humphries,

London, 1965

i) Modern Arabic literature, M.M. Badawi, Cambridge University press, London,

2006

j) Naguib Mahfouz wa Fann sina'at al 'abqariyya, Misiri Hanura Dar al Shuruq, 2008

k) Tarikh Cambridge li al Adab al Arabi al Hadith, al Subail and others, al Nadi al

Adabi al Thaqafi, Jiddah, 2002

l) Tatawwur al Riwaya al Arabiyya al Haditha, Dar al Ma'arif, Abdul Muhsin Taha

Badr, Cairo, 1983

m) The Anchor book of Modern Arabic Fiction, Danys Johnson Davies, The Anchor

books, New Delhi, 2006

n) The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction Matti Moosa, Lynne Rienner, London,

1997

o) The Palestinian Novel: acommunication study, Ibrahim Taha, Routledge, London,

2002

p) The world Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, Vol 4, Don Rubin, Routledge,

London, 2000


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ARB 5033 MAHJAR LITERATURE Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To understand the distinct features of Mahjar literature in Arabic

• To introduce new literary schools and trends in American Arabic literature

• To estimate the scope of various genres of Mahjar literature

• To assess the influence of western literature and culture in Mahjar literature

• To evaluate the conflicting values of Mahjar and Arab world writers in Arabic

Course Description

The paper introduces the salient features of Migratory Literature of Arabic

language. It attempts to have a glance on the master piece works written in Arabic

in the continents of North, South America and Europe. It explaines the different

types of Literary movements which geared up the Arab writings out side the Arab

Peninsula along with biographies of distinguished writers of the age

Module – I: Background of Arab migration to American continents – Mahjar literary

groups in North and South Americas – Mahjar literature and its impact on Arabic

literature.

Module – II: Mahjar Literature: Characteristics – Religious and artistic freedom – al

'Irbal – Mahjar and the Diwan movement – Role played by Mahjar literary persons in the

development of Arabic literature – Arabism and Nationalism in Mahjar poetry

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Module – III: al Rabita al Qalamiyya in New York: Literary activities – Jubran Khalil

Jubran – Mikha'il Nu'ayma – Iliyya Abu Madi, Al Usbat al Andalusiyya in Brazil: Mishal

al Ma'luf, Other Mahjar groups, Arabic journalism & Mahjar literature: Mahjar journals











Text Books:

1 Al-Ajniha al Mutakassira by Jubran Khalil Jubran


a) ‘Ara’is al Muruj, Jubran Khalil Jubran, Dar al Kitab al Arabi, Beirut, 1997

b) al Jami' fi Tarikh al Adab al Arabi: al Adab al Hadith, Hanna Fakhuri, Dar al Jil,

Beirut

c) al Nabi, Jubran Khalil Jubran, Dar al Kitab al Arabi, Beirut, 1997

d) al Qissa al Qasira fi al Adab al Mu'asar, Ali al-Ra'I, Dar al Hilal, Cairo

e) An introduction to modern Arabic literature, Roger Allen, Cambridge University

Press, London, 1998

f) Diwanu Abi Madi, Iliyya Abu Madi, Dar al Awda, Beirut, 1996

g) Encyclopaedia of Arabic Literature (Volume - II), Julie Meisami & Paul Starkey,

Routledge 37, 1998

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h) Fi al Adab al Hadith, Umar Dasuqi, Dar al Fikr al Arabi, Cairo, 2000

i) Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology, Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Columbia


j) Modern Arabic Literature (1800-1970), John A. Haywood, Lund Humphries,

London, 1965

k) Modern Arabic Literature, Ismat Mahdi, Hyderabad, 1983

l) Modern Arabic Literature, M.M. Badawi, Cambridge University Press, London,

2006

m) Shi’r al Akhtal al Saghir, Bashar Abdullah al Fawzi, Dar al Kutub al Arabiyya,

1997

n) Tarikh Cambridge li al Adab al Arabi al Hadith, al-Subail and others, al Nadi al


o) Tarikh ul-Adab il-Arabi, Ahamed Hasan al Zayyat, Darul Marifa, Beirut

p) The Anchor book of Modern Arabic Fiction, Danys Johnson-Davies, The Anchor








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ELECTIVES: SEMESTER - IV

ARB 5041 SPECIAL AUTHOR: NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To survey the literary contributions of Naguib Mahfouz

• To analyze the themes introduced by Naguib Mahfouz

• To examine the social realism in the works of Naguib Mahfouz

• To have a detailed study over the works of Naguib Mahfouz which shed light over

the history of Egypt

Course Description

The Paper will provide a detailed description of the one and only Nobel laureate in

Arabic Literature. It will discuss elaborately and deeply the literary contributions

of Naguib Mahfouz

Module – I: Biography of Naguib Mahfouz, Development of Arabic Novel in Egypt,

Contribution of Naguib Mahfouz to Arabic novel, Realism and Existentialism and its

influence in the novels of Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize for literature in 1988, Egyptian

Cinema and Naguib Mahfouz, Political condition of Egypt

Module – II: Works of Naguib Mahfouz: a general survey of the novels of Naguib

Mahfouz, Historical, Realistic, Philosophical, Post-realistic and Symbolic novels, Writing

style and themes of Naguib Mahfouz, The Experimental novel, The Cairo Trilogy, Short

stories of Naguib Mahfouz, Naguib Mahfouz: The Son of Two Civilizations

Module – III: Detailed and analytical study of ‘Zuqaq al Midaq’ - the novel of Naguib

Mahfouz, General outline, character sketch, realistic depiction of life, style of writing,

criticism, etc.

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Text Books:

1. A’lam al Nathr wa al Shi’r fi al ‘Asr al Arabi al Hadith by Muhammad Yusuf

Kokan

2. Zuqaq al Midaq by Naguib Mahfouz


a) al-Qahira al Jadida, Naguib Mahfouz, Matba’a Misr, 1946

b) al-Qissa al Qasira fi al Adab al Mu'asar, Ali al Ra'I, Dar al Hilal, Cairo

c) Amam al Arsh, Naguib Mahfouz, Maktaba Mass, Calicut

d) Bina’ al Shakhsiyya al ra’isiyya fi riwayati Naguib Mahfouz, Badawi Uthman,

Dar al Hadatha, Beirut, 1986

e) Douriyathu Naguib Mahfouz, Al Majlis Al A’la li al Saqafa, Cairo, 2010

f) Fi al Adab al Hadith, Umar Dasuqi, Dar al Fikr al Arabi, Cairo, 2000

g) Midaq Alley, Naguib Mahfouz, Anchor Books New Delhi, 1992

h) Modern Arabic Literature, Ismat Mahdi, Hyderabad, 1983

i) Naguib Mahfouz wa Fann sina'at al 'abqariyya, Misiri Hanura, Dar al Shuruq,

2008

j) Naguib Mahfouz, Muhammad Kalakish, Dar al Fikr al Lubnani, Beirut, 2008

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k) Tatawwur al Riwaya al Arabiyya al Haditha, Dar al Ma'arif, Abdul Muhsin Taha

Badr, Cairo, 1983

l) The Anchor book of Modern Arabic Fiction, Danys Johnson Davies, The Anchor


m) The Thief and the dogs, Naguib Mahfouz, Anchor Books, New Delhi







ARB 5042 ARABIC JOURNALISM AND ESSAY WRITING Credit - 4

Aim of the Course

• To explain the role of Journals and Media in society

• To guide the students towards the origin and development of Journalism in Arabic

language

• To introduce the art of Essay Writing and to enhance the writing skill in Arabic

• To introduce the leading print and visual medias along with the electronic medias

Course Description

The paper expalains the basic concepts, role and development of journalism. It

examines the changes in Arab society brought by the Medias and its role in

creating political awareness among general public. It reveals the history of the

development of Arab journals

Module – I: Definition of journalism, journalism and communication, Role of journalism

in literary and political awareness, History of Arabic journalism, Prominent newspapers

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and journals in Arabic, Press personalities in the Arab world, Electronic journalism in

Arabic

Module – II: Development of Arabic journalism in India, Arabic journals and periodicals

in Kerala

Module – III: The classical form of Risala, development of modern essay (maqala) in

Arabic, Role played by Journalism in the development of essay writing, Political, social,

literary and religious essays

Module – IV: Early essay writers: Muhammad Abduhu, Mustafa Lutfi al Manfaluti,

Abdul Rahman al Kawakibi Essay writing between two world wars – Literary Essay

writing: Abbas Mahmud al Aqqad, Taha Husayn, Ahmad Amin, Ahmad Hasan al Zayyat

Islamic Essay writing: Mustatafa Sadiq al Rafi’e, Sayyid Qutub, Ali al Tantawi, Anwar al

Jundi, Yusuf al Qardawi, Muhammad al Ghazzali – Modern Essay writing











Text Books:

1. Journal Arabic by V.P. Abdul Hamid, and N.K. Abdul Halim, Al Huda Books,

Calicut, 1999

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2. A New Arabic Grammar (P 487-494) by J.A. Haywood and H.M Nahmad

3. Musahamat al Hind fi al Nathr al Arabi khilal al Qarn al ‘Ishrin (P 266 - 294)

by Ashfaq Ahmad, New Delhi, 2003


a) al-Jami’ fi Tarikh al Adab al Arabi: al Adab al Hadith, Hanna Fakhuri, Dar al Jil,

Beirut

b) al-Nadarat, Mustafa Lutfi al Manfaluti, Maktabatu Lubnan, 1991

c) Encyclopaedia of Arabic Literature (Volume - II), Julie Meisami & Paul Starkey,

Routledge 37, 1998

d) Essays: Indian and Islamic, Khuda Baksh, Jayyed Press, New Delhi, 1977

e) Modern Arabic Literature (1800-1970), John A. Haywood, Lund Humphries,

London, 1965

f) Modern Arabic Literature, Ismat Mahdi, Hyderabad, 1983

g) Modern Arabic Literature, M.M. Badawi, Cambridge University Press, London,

2006

h) Muhadirat al Shaikh Muhammad al Ghazzali, Abd al Hamid al Qutubi

i) Tarikh al Sahafat al ‘Arabiyya, Phillip De Tarrazi, Beirut, 1914

j) Tarikh Cambridge li al Adab al Arabi al Hadith, al Subail and others, al Nadi al


k) Tatwwar al Adab al hadith fi Misr, Ahmad Haykal, Cairo, 1983

l) Wahy al Qalam, Mustafa Sadiq al Rafi’e, Dar al Kitab al Arabi, Beirut






4) Preparation of one news report in Arabic

– 2 out of 4 2 x 9 = 18 Marks

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ARB 5043 WOMEN'S WRITING IN ARABIC Credit - 4

Aim of the Course:

• To describe the distinctiveness in the women’s writings

• To evaluate the Arab social attitudes towards women writings

• To introduce the important women immensely contributed to Arabic language

• To survey the women’s contributions in Arabic Literature

Course Description

The paper sheds the light over the contributions of the women in the field of Arabic

language right from Pre Islamic Period to the contemporary world. It discusses the

role played by them in keeping the language as living language. Biography of

eminent women writers is also a matter of discourse

Module – I: Women's writing in Arabic: History and development, Feminist writing,

Islamist women writers, Images of women in literature, Difference between male and

female perceptions, women’s language, Problems encountered by women writers,

Women in Arabic literature, Women and Journalism

Module – II: Elegy and the ‘Poetess-Persona’: al-Khansa’ and Layla al-Akhyaliyya,

Gendered Interlocutions: Fadl al Sha‘ira, ‘Ulayya Bint al Mahdi, Nazhun, ‘Udhri love

stories, Sacred Herstories: Fatima al Zahra’ and ‘A’isha Bint Abi Bakr, ‘A’isha al Ba

‘uniyya, Classical Women writers: al Khansa', al Kharnaq bint Badr, Layla al Akhila,

Sukyna bint al Husayn, Rabi'a al Adawiyya, 'A'isha bint al Mahdi

Module - III: Textual Formulations of the Early Modern Women’s Movement: ‘A’isha

Taymuriyya (Egypt), Malak Hifni Nasif (Egypt), and May Ziade (Lebanon-Palestine),

Feminism and Free Verse: Fadwa Tuqan (Palestine), Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Jordan-

Palestine) and Nazik al Mala’ika (Iraq), Women Writers and Narrative Voice: Suhayr al-

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Qalamawi (Egypt), Latifa Zayyat (Egypt), Radwa Ashur (Egypt), Hanan al Shaykh

(Lebanon), and Latifa Baqa (Morocca)

Module – IV: Modern Arabic Women Writers: Assia Djebar (Algeria), Zakiyya 'Ilal

(Algeria), 'A'isha Bint al Shati' (Egypt) Nawal al Sa'dawi (Egypt), Wafa’ Abd al Razaq

(Iraq), Fadia Faqir (Jordan), Layla al Uthman (Kuwait), Sa'diyya Mafrah (Kuwait),

Zaynab Fawwaz (Lebanon), Nida Unsi al Hajj (Lebanon), Layla Ba'albaki (Lebanon),

Fatima al Marnisi (Morocco), Samira 'Azzam (Palestine), Buthayna Idris (Saudi Arabia),

Ghadat al Samman (Syria), Qamar Kilani (Syria), Samar Samir Mezghanni (Tunisia)

Module – V: Modern Arabic Women Poets: Samira Negrouche (Algeria), Amina Qutub

(Egypt), Khadija Mahmud (Iraq), Nabila al Khatib (Jordan), Sa’ida Mafrah (Kuwait),

Warda al Yaziji (Lebanon), Suzan Alaywan (Lebanon), Jumana Haddad (Lebanon),

Fatima Bannis (Morocco), Amina al Marini (Morocco), Anisa Darwish (Palestine),

Fadwa Tuqan (Palestine), Na’umi Shihab Nay (Palestine), Jawhara al Saffarini

(Palestine), Insaf Ali Bukhari (Saudi Arabia), Fatima al Qarni (Saudi Arabia), Amal

Musa (Tunisia)











Text Books:

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Prose:

1) Dawr al Mar’ath Fee Israil al Lugath al Arabiyya wa adaabiha ‘abral ‘usoor

by Farhanah Siddiqi, Goodword Books, New Delhi, 2003

2) ‘Aam Sa’eed by May Ziade (Lebanon-Palestine)

3) ‘Ihdar al Dam by Nawal al Sa'dawi (Egypt)

4) al Jathat wa shajara al Zaytun by Qamar Kilani (Syria)

5) al Risala al Akhira by Zakiyya 'Ilal (Algeria)

6) Faris al Hayy al Munkasar by Buthayna Idris (Kuwait)

7) Min al Alam al Jameel by Samar Samir Mezghanni (Tunisia)

Poetry:

1) Ana by Nazik al Mala'ika (Iraq)

2) Ma’a Sanabil al Qamh by Fadwa Tuqan (Palestine)

3) Rihla fi Ahrash al Lail by Hamida Qutub (Egypt)

4) Ruhi Bi Qurbika by 'A'isha al Taymuriyya (Egypt)

5) Sarkha min Sarayifu by Amina al Marini (Morocco)


a) A'lam al Nathr wa al Shi'r fi al 'Asr al Adabi al Hadith, Vol 1 & III, Muhammad

Yusuf Kokan, Madras

b) al-Jami' fi Tarikh al Adab al Arabi: al Adab al Qadim & al Adab al Hadith, Hanna

Fakhuri, Dar al Jil, Beirut

c) al-Katibat al Arabiyyat, Meriam Cooke, al Nadi al Adabi al Thaqafi, Jiddah

d) Amina Bint Wahab, Bint al Shati', Dar al Hilal, Cairo

e) Bahitha al Adabiyya wa 'A'isha al Taymuriyya, May Ziade, Dar al Hilal, Cairo

b) Encyclopaedia of Arabic Literature (Volume - II), Julie Meisami & Paul Starkey,

Routledge 37, 1998

a) Fi al Adab al Hadith wa Naqdihi, Imad ali Salim al Khatib, Dar al Masira, Jordan,

2009

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b) Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology, Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Columbia


c) Modern Arabic Literature, M.M. Badawi, Cambridge University Press, London,

2006

d) Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader (Arabic Edition), Ronak Husni

& Daniel L. Newman, 2008

e) Nāzik al Malāʼikah wa-āthāruhā al adabīyah wa-al-shiʻrīyah, Farḥānah Ṣiddīqī,

New Delhi, 2002

f) Tarikh al Adab al Arabi, V.P. Abdul Hamid, Al Huda Books, Calicut, 2006

g) The Anchor book of Modern Arabic Fiction, Danys Johnson-Davies, The Anchor


h) The world Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, Vol 4, Don Rubin, Routledge,

London, 2000







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