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” Reading of simple texts and short suras from the Qur’an. Exercises.
Literature: Geografical and historical notes on the Arabic peninsula.
The customary preislamic law.
History of the Arab language.
The ğāhiliyya period: the qasīda and the muʿallaqāt.
The prophet Muhammad and the rivelation of the
Qur'an.
The first four Caliphs.
The Umayyad period.