ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Oral exam.
The language course introduces the student to the study of Arabic, providing him with the first morphological and syntactic elements that will enable him to read write and start a conversation.
The course of literature directs the student to focus on the socio-cultural background of Arabs
before the advent of Islam and it allows the scholar to appreciate the distinct features of the literary
tradition in pre-Islamic and Umayyad poetry.
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.
- VECCIA VAGLIERI L., Grammatica teorico‐pratica della lingua araba, primo volume, Roma, Istituto per
l’Oriente;2012.
‐ ABBOUD, MCCARUS, Elementary Modern Standard Arabic, (EMSA) part I, Cambridge University Press;
‐ ʿABD AR‐ RAHMĀN F., Durūs al‐luġa al‐ʿarabiyya, al‐ğuz al‐awwal, Medina, al ğāmiʿa al‐Islāmiyya;
‐ BALDISSERA E., Il Dizionario di Arabo, Bologna, Zanichelli;
- Contu G., L’Arabia preislamica, Cattedra di lingua e letteratura araba, Sassari;
- Bausani A.,Il Corano, Rizzoli, Milano;
- Gabrieli F.,Letteratura araba, Sansoni, Firenze.
Face to face lectures
Additional teaching materials will be provided in class