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Mes 160: Classical Islamic Literature & Civilization, Kirsten Beck

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This open resource includes a syllabus, class schedule, grading rubrics, and guidelines/examples for digital poetry annotation.

The course website can be found here: http://mes160.social.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/

In this course, we will take a journey through history, literature, and ideas, traveling through Islamic civilization from 600-1250 CE. We will learn about and contemplate the major events and concerns of Islamic civilization, from the dawn of Islam through the expansions, transformations, and fragmentations of Islamic empires, up until the end of the 13th century. Works of Islamic literature from a variety of genres will fuel our journey. Along the way, we will learn how …

المحتوى التعليمي لتدريس العربية للناطقين بغيرها كلية السلطان قابوس في تعليم اللغة العربية للناطقين بغيرها أنموذجا, محمد الصقري استاذ مساعد

Journal of Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Humanities)

الملخص:

تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى وصف الطريقة التي يُعدّ بها المحتوى التعليمي في كلية السلطان قابوس لتعليم اللغة العربية للناطقين بغيرها، والكشف عن رأي المدرسين ورضاهم عن هذه الطريقة، وإيجابياتها وسلبياتها من وجهة نظرهم، واتبعت الدراسة المنهج النوعي في البحث، واعتمدت على تحليل المحتوى لوثيقة (خطة البرنامج) المنظمة للتدريس في الكلية، وعلى الاستبيان المفتوح لجمع المعلومات من المدرسين، واختارت عينة من مدرسي الكلية، بلغ عددهم ثمانية مدرسين.

وأظهرت النتائج أن (خطة البرنامج) مع أنها اشتملت على عناصر المنهج، وتضمنت مصفوفة محتوى لكل مستوى من المستويات اللغوية، إلا إنها افتقرت إلى التحديد الدقيق للمحتوى التعليمي، وأنه يُعتمد على المدرس في إعداد …

Palestinian Evangelical Christian Music In Bethlehem, Israel/Palestine, Abby Smith

Senior Honors Theses

Often the story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is portrayed as Jewish vs. Muslim, Hebrew vs. Arab. There is little room in the international dialogue for minorities such as Arab Christians. Though Palestinians have a rich culture of Arabic musical and poetic heritage, they are unable to produce their own new songs. In this study I interviewed three members of Immanuel Evangelical Church on their experiences and opinions on local Christian worship. The findings show that Palestinian Christians may feel unable to write worship music because of a prevalent feeling of inadequacy and a lack of musical training. I propose several …

The Jordanian Novel In Postmodern Context, Hamed Alalamat

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

As the Jordanian culture is gradually impacted by the globalization process of late capitalism, this study argues that many Jordanian novels exhibit a number of postmodern characteristics, such as blurring boundaries and disrupting hierarchies, the use of pastiche as a compositional technique, formal fragmentation, and the weakness of utopian imagination. Adopting Fredric Jameson’s theory of postmodernism as a framework, the study explores ten Jordanian novels written between 1986 and 2016 to demonstrate that the modernization process and the cultural changes in the Arab world, in general, and in the Jordanian society, in particular, have increased the density of postmodern features …

More Than Sectarianism: How Have State And Non-State Institutions Used Violence To Form The Current Iraqi State And What Is The Effect?, Caitlyn Perkins

Honors Theses

This thesis examines the role of violence in Iraq in establishing the current Iraqi state. My chapters provide historical and theoretical context to the subject before getting into the analysis. The goal of this thesis is to show that violence in Iraq is not only caused by sectarian differences, but has been used and influenced by leaders, outside governments, and non-state institutions for personal gain and political goals at the cost of the Iraqi people.

Arab Authors’ Responses To Cross-Cultural Experiences With Europe: The Contrasting Perspectives Of ‘Abd Al-Rahman Al-Jabarti And Rifa‘A Al-Tahtawi, Clara R. Keuss

Global Tides

This article contrasts the ways in which major Arab authors of the early or pre- Nahda (Ar. "awakening," "renaissance") period (ca. 1850-1950) responded to the French during and after the Napoleonic occupation of Egypt (1798-1801), specifically through Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti’s contemporary chronicles of the invasion and Rifa'a al-Tahtawi's account of his five-year stay in Paris (1826-31). In so doing, it explores how or whether these reflections on the European other inflected the later development of modern Arabic narrative and concepts of Egyptian identity.

اللهجات العربية في كتاب شرح شذور الذهب للجوجري, د. محمود خلف حمد السبهاني, م.م. أمجد عويد الحياني

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

This paper deals with the study of Arabic dialects in the book Sharh Shuthoor Althahab to ALJojary (d. 889 AH), and the importance of the study of Arabic dialects of it represents a manifestation of the development of the language, and the book Sharh Shuthoor Althahab to ALJojary despite being an explanation of the manual book in as combines most topics as, has included many of the Arabic dialects through which we can explain some grammatical issues related to them. Representing a new addition in linguistic studies.

أم مالك في الشعر العربي, أ .م.د. صالح أحمد رشيد

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

The search for significance (or the owner) in Arabic poetry, and technical staffing for this nickname since the pre-Islamic era until the end of the Abbasid period, stopping on a number of results that we hope will be of interest, and can be summarized as follows.

- Did not rule out the search to be the historical roots of this nickname may in football did not reach us, or to be known in its time to the extent that sings mentioned.

- Technical Yeshi employment (or the owner) in the pre-Islamic era to the poets they were not mentioned in …

الثنائيات المتضادة في النواحي الأخلاقية في شعر زهير بن أبي سلمى, مدرس.نرجس حسين زاير

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

The research is an important aspect of life in general and poetry in particular, so that the contrast is a common phenomenon in the universe and nature are involved in organizing events of all human Hence the diodes opposite in hair Zuhair particularly in ethical express the vision and ideas poet because he was confirmed ethical aspects In his poems Since hair is depiction of the same, the poet lived our equilibrium between stimuli experiment noodles and what caused this dramatic expressions, and it has divided the antithesis as follows: (good versus evil), (and honesty against lying), (and meet against …

كتابا جامع التصانيف ومكتبة الأدب الجاهلي دراسة مقارنة في منهجي تصنيفهما, أ . م د. عذراء محمد راغب

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

This is a comparative study in two bibliographers' methods of Arab bibliographers in the last century : Elian Sarkis and Dr. Afif Abdul Rahman. One of them was in 1920s and the other was in 1990s . we preferred to select their two books because the first one represented the bibliography (the general classification) of the Arabic issues (the written and the translated) at his age , while the bibliography of the second was for a specific topic , I.e. pre-Islamic literature and what as written about it in the Arabic studies and in other languages. Both bibliographers chose the …

دمـــوع الحــب فـي الشـعر الأندلــسي ( عـصر الطـوائف), د. بشــرى عـبـد عـطية

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

• The research study concerns the tears in the poetry of love in Andalusia has been prying analysis of poetic texts which employed the poet of the word tears and on its behalf of crying and sadness.
• Been searching employing these words in the pictures of poetry that depended on tears to express their sense of the poet lover and his emotional and stand on styles of expression that emerged in this subject and the research found the most important of the results of several
• Creativity of the poet in employing these words in the love poetry to express his sincere …

ما خالف فيه المبرِّدُ البصريين في كتاب (الإنصاف في مسائل الخلاف) لابن الانباري, م.م. احمد جاسم محمد

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

What Al-Mubarad Disagrees with the Basras in hhis book al-Ensaaf fi masael Al-Khalaf

The researcher tackles the issues in which Al-Mubarad violates the group of Basri people in his book al-Ensaaf fi masael Al-Khalaf. The study contains six issues: three of which about articles and the other threes nouns.

The study was introduced by a biography of Imam Al-Mubarad in which we tackle his name, date of birth and the reason he called so in addition to the sheikhs, disciples and his most important writings.

I dpened on the two books of Al-Mubarad (Al-Kamil and al-Muqtadhab) in …

البناء الفني في شعر ابن صفوان التنجيبي 98 هـ, د. علاء طالب عبد الله, د. عبد الكريم فاضل عبد الكريم

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

No abstract provided.

A Papyrus Fragment Related To Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih’S Al-ʿIqd Al-Farīd*, Mark Muehlhaeusler

Faculty Journal Articles

This article presents an edition and a translation of a papyrus fragment from the Beinecke Library at Yale (P.CtYBR inv. 2598), together with a brief commentary. This literary fragment, containing two verses of poetry, is interesting because it provides an oriental source for a text until then known only through the famous Andalusian work of Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih, al-ʿIqd al-farīd; it also serves as an example of an informal mode of written transmission of Arabic poetry.

Workings Of Theocracy: The Historical Function And Modern Applicability Of Charitable Endowments, Nuh Elalaoui

Honors Program Theses

Historically, various systems and institutions across diverse civilizations have been established to meet the many needs that interweave the fabric of society. One, and perhaps the most significant of these institutions is the waqf/hubus system. Characterized by the designation of a property or revenue stream as mortmain and the investment of the usufruct for the benefit of (often predetermined) beneficiaries, this form of charitable endowment is hailed as a cornerstone of Islamic civilization. The objectives of this paper are threefold. Primarily, it examines the historical role of awqāf, with focus on their social and economic significance in two distinct Islamic …

Toward An Arabic Modernism: Politics, Poetics, And The Postcolonial, Alaa Taha

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

This thesis explores modernism's temporality and location through the examination of Arabic modernism's occurrence. In this thesis, I question whether the authenticity of modernism derives from its temporality period or its literary content while concurrently investigating several poems by Lebanese authors Kahlil Gibran and Nadia Tuéni and Syrian poet Adonis. Additionally, I trace Arabic modernism's influence to the early 1900s-1910s to the conception of the Mahjar movement and the Pen League, an Arabic literary society consisting of Arabic immigrant writers. As I discern the political impact within Arabic writings, I explore political events, such as World War I and its …

Legal Translation In A Political Context: The Trick Of Choosing Between Alternatives In Translating Electoral Terms, Zakia Deeb

Abdou Filali-Ansary Occasional Paper Series

Legal electoral terminology is a specialist subject within the broader legal language discourse. When translating into Arabic, even basic electoral terms can be translated differently in different Arab countries for various reasons due to different sources of inspiration. Most legal electoral terms have a variety of alternative equivalents within the relevant linguistic field or semi-legal domain. This paper discusses such alternatives while presenting problems related to the existing resources in the field. Data collected from the 2012 election of members of the Libyan General National Congress are analysed to test the consistency in selecting from these alternatives. Furthermore, material presented …

Arab Media's Representation Of Arab-Israeli Normalization Agreements, Rylan L. Forester

Honors Theses

When, on August 13, 2020, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced it was normalizing relations with the state of Israel, few could have predicted the effects it would have. However, since the Emirati decision, three other Arab countries - Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco - have reached agreements with Tel Aviv to normalize relations. Such events are a sharp divergence from the status quo and thus, this thesis examines, through the application of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and analyzed through a constructivist framework, how three Arab media sources - Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya, and Al-Mayadeen - discuss and represent these normalization agreements. By …

Madness And Sanity: Wisdom Of Madmen And The Wise Men Madness In The 19th Century, Norah Roudhan

Undergraduate Research Symposium

This research is based on a careful examination of the concept of insanity and reason. In addition to mentioning some examples from the nineteenth century in the literature to illustrate how each of them used the concept of insanity. Despite the different reason for describing each of the above names and personalities as insane, through analyzes and questions posed it becomes clear that insanity in the end may have a different meaning from what today’s concept represent. The research concludes with the main reason behind the presentation of literature to some famous figures of insanity in a manner that reflects …

Ancient Beliefs And Their Religious And Mystical Symbols, Elyor Alimkulov

The Light of Islam

The article examines the concept of religious symbols, the history of the origin of religious-mystical symbols in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, their essence and content and meaning today. Also, the author’s views on the introduction of the concepts of symbol and religious symbols into scientifc circulation are expressed, various defnitions of these concepts by Western scientists are given, the role of symbols in society is determined. It is noted that in ancient Egyptian beliefs, each tribe worshiped and revered not only its own god, but also a certain animal that was somehow connected with this god, regardless of whether …

صناعة المصطلح العلمي بين التوريث والتحديث إحياء اللغة أم اضطراب المفاهيم, Riad Osman

Al Jinan الجنان

No abstract provided.

الانسجام الصوتي: دراسة تحليلية الحلقة الأولى, Abdulmoneam Bchennaty

Al Jinan الجنان

No abstract provided.

تعداد المفاهيم والاستخدام في مصطلح الأصول لدى ابن السراج, Mohammad Abou Alrab

Al Jinan الجنان

يقف هذا البحث على حقيقة مفهوم مصطلح (الأصول) ودلالته من منظور لساني في كتاب ابن السراج (الأصول في النحو) إذ يوحي عنوانه أنه كتاب في أصول النحو العربي السماع والقياس والإجماع واستصحاب الحال.

وفي سعينا لتجلية حقيقة الأمر حرصنا على تقديم ما يمهد لنا ذلك أولاً، ثم عرفنا الأصل لغة واصطلاحا، وبينا آراء الباحثين قدماء ومحدثين في الكتاب نفسه وموضعه من تلك الأصول النحوية. وبعد ذلك كله، وقراءة الكتاب نفسه من قبل تبين لنا أن ابن السراج قد تحدّث عن السماع والقياس في بداية كتابه بصورة موجزة، وتحدث عن العلة بوصفها ركناً من أركان القياس. والحق أن الأمر لديه لم …

أثر المعنى في تعدد وجوه الإعراب عند أبي جعفر النحاس دراسة تطبيقية في سورة المائدة, Abdelaziz Ali, Mohammad Abou ِAlrab, Raed Tafech

Al Jinan الجنان

The semantic impact on the diversity of parsing according to Abi- Ja'far ANNaḥaas: An applied study on Surat Al Ma'idah (The Repast) The current paper studies the relationship between the meaning and its various parses in the holy Qura'n. The study has taken the parsing moods of Chapter 5 )Surat) Al Ma'idah )The Repast) from the book named 'i9raab Al-Quran' by Abi Ja'far Al-Naḥaas as a typical example of application to demonstrate this relation. First, the parsing forms of controversial verses in chapter 5 were confined. The diversity of perspectives of parsing these forms among scholars were discussed in light …

لغتنا الزاخرة ذاخرة, Abdulmoneam Bchennaty

Al Jinan الجنان

أجمع علماء اللغة العربية منذ صدر الإسلام من خلال دراستهم للغة العربية أن ذخائر أمتهم يجب إبرازها بصورة رائعة. وقد نجح علماء أمة اللغة العربية في هذه المهمة الصعبة في المحافظة على الإرث اللغوي العربي. وللمحافظة على ثبات اللغة العربية قام آلاف العلماء اللغويين يجمعونها من مظانها ومواطن نشأتها. ولغتنا الفصحى أسمى اللغات، وأرقاها في الأسلوب، ودقة التعبير أصلها ضارب في عمق فجر الإنسانية، ورثناها كابرا عن كابر.

والزاخر: الشرف العالي.. قال أبو تراب : سمعت مبتكرا يقول:زاخرته فزخرته، وفاخرته ففخرته،... وفخر بماعنده، وزخر : بمعنى واحد. فمادة (زخر)تدل على معان وجيهة حول العلو والإرتفاع والشرف والفخر، ومعنى (لغتنا الزاخرة)الشريفة …

الانسجام الصوتي: دراسة تحليلية الحلقة الثانية, Abdulmoneam Bchennaty

Al Jinan الجنان

No abstract provided.

لسانيات الخطاب : من لسانيات الجملة إلى لسانيات النص دراسة في بعض مؤلفات مشروع أحمد المتوكل الوظيفي, Abdelwahab Sedik

Al Jinan الجنان

No abstract provided.

Women In Palestinian Folk Tale, Mohammed Dawabsheh

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

This paper examines the wemen are portrayed in the Palestinian folktales. Of special interest are the so-cial spiritual, psychological and sexual portrayal of women in the roles they assume: mother, sister, wife, daughter, daughter-in-law and fellow wife. It also investigates both the negative and positive mythical depictions of women in Palestinian folk tales. Later, the paper draws a comparison between this portrayal and the way women are featured in modern social and psychological science. Inspired by the relevant approaches, particularly the mythical ap-proach, the paper used the descriptive analytical approach.

Persuasive Strategies In The English Translations Of The Al-Baqarah Quranic Verses, Dalal A. S. Aldahshan

Student Works (2020-2029)

The persuasive act refers to the performance of an act with the use of a specific form of communication through language, one of the most essential factors used in influencing people's thoughts and attitudes, setting decisions and controlling values. The persuasive act can be used in many ways by influencing the thoughts and behavior of people or in advertisement which sell products or services by way of convincing people to buy certain products or services. In politics, it is also used to convince people to change their political beliefs or ideologies. On the religious side, the persuasive act is considered …

Islamic And Middle East Area Studies Librarianship, Walid Ghali, Waseem Farooq, Paul Auchterlonie, Arnoud Vrolijk

Abdou Filali-Ansary Occasional Paper Series

The three papers collected here are based on a seminar on Islamic Studies Librarianship held on 31 January 2019 at the Aga Khan Library (AKL), in conjunction with the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC). Curators, area studies directors, and collection librarians, who are currently involved in this field, gathered to discuss common challenges and to identify strategic areas for collaboration.