Language:Introduction to the knowledge of Arabic.
The alphabet.The arabic sentence: the noun, the
definite article, cases and declensions, the genitive, the adjective, gender and number, the pronouns, interrogative particles, the simple verb (perfect and imperfect), the verb Kāna. The negative of nominal sentences using the verb laysa.
Learning basic Arabic conversation. Exercises.
Reading of simple texts and short suras from the Quran.
Literature: Geografical notes on the Arabic Peninsula.
Etnographic data and history of the Peninsula.
The pre-Islamic customary law.
History of the Arab language.
The ğāhiliyya period: the qasīda and the muʿallaqāt.
The prophet Muhammad and the revelation of the
Qur'an.
The first four Caliphs.
The Umayyad period.