Description
The purpose of this module is to introduce students to Classical Arabic. Arabic, in a number of local spoken forms, is the mother-tongue of more than 250 million people. The classical form of the language, however, plays a central role in the lives of the world’s approximately 1.2 billion Muslims as it is the language of the Islamic revelation – the Qur’ān. Classical Arabic is also the language of canonical prayer and the religious discourse (scriptural exegesis, jurisprudence and theology, for instance.) In this module students develop knowledge and skills in the morphology, syntax and vocabulary of Classical Arabic, and will begin to read and translate basic texts in Classical Arabic
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Indicative Reading List
- Jones, Alan: 2005, Arabic through the Qur’ān, Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge,
- Versteegh, Kees: 2001, The Arabic Language, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh,
- Fischer, Wolfgang: 2002, A Grammar of Classical Arabic, 3rd ed, Yale University Press, New Haven,
- Shah, Mustafa: 2008, “The Arabic language.” Pages 261–277 in The Islamic World (ed. Andrew Rippin), Routhledge, London,
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