NOBLE QUR'AN SECTION
TAFSEER AND 'ULOOM AL-QUR'AN
SUNNAH AND 'ULOOMUL-HADEETH
'AQEEDAH: ISLAMIC CREED
SEERAH NABAWIYYAH
FIQH AND USOOL AL-FIQH
DA'WAH AND ISLAMIC CULTURE
ARABIC LANGUAGE
ENGLISH
PSYCHOLOGY
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
EDUCATION
 


ARABIC LANGUAGEARABIC (240 Hours)

I. OBJECTIVES
 
  1. Linking the student with Arabic, the language of the Qur’aan and Islamic civilization, and the language of mutual understanding and unity of the Muslim Ummah.
  2. Correcting the student’s reading and writing skills as well as developing his ability to express his opinions and thoughts in correct phrases.
  3. Enable the student to quickly understand the written and spoken word and to express what knowledge he has learned.
  4. Developing in the student the ability to discover facts and meanings from the Arabic dictionaries in the various fields of learning and to be able to further his or her studies on a graduate level in an all-Arabic environment.
II. CLASS CONTENT
First Year
This course is an intensive study of grammar, syntax and composition necessary to master the various language skills for both research and study.
  1. A Brief Introduction to the birth and development of Grammar and syntax.
2. Technical Terms: Lafz, Kalimah, Kalaam, Kalim, Qawl.
3. Types of kalimah and the branches of each type.
4. Indefinite and Definite and Types of Definite constructions.
5. I‘raab and Binaa: Their Meanings, Signs, Types.
6. Inna and its sisters.
7. Kaana and its sisters.
Second Year
  1. A Brief Introduction to Verb Conjugation and its benefits.
2. A Brief Study of the tri-literal roots and their increased forms
3. The Verbal Sentence: Its Symbols, Rules, Contents.
4. The conjunctions
5. The forms of the Past Tense Verb
6. Practical Application of Rules to Varied Texts.
Third Year
  1. Declension of the Present Tense Verb and Future Forms of the Verbs
2. Forms of Address (Nidaa), Surprize, Negation, Response, Praise and Dispraise
3. Noun Derivatives and their Patterns.
4. Male and Female Forms, Fixed Symbols and Rules.
5. Additional Letters and their Places of Addition.

Fourth Year

  1. Separation and Linking in Writing.
2. A Brief Look at the Arabic Dictionary: Its birth, development and its methods of expressing word meanings
3. A Brief Introduction on the Development of Arabic Writing
4. Writing the Hamzah in various positions of a word and Taa Marbootah
5. The Numbering Symbols and their importance.

III. TEXTBOOKS
A. Required Text:
  Bilal Philips, Arabic Grammar Made Easy, Book 1&2
Al-Qawaa‘id al-‘Arabiyyah al-Muyassarah:
King Saud University Book 1,2&3
Al-‘Arabiyyah Baina Yadaik (Arabic for All) Vol I&2, Islamic Waqf Foundation
Ibn Hishaam, Sharh Qatarun-Nadaa, Sharh Shuthoor ath-Thahab
B. Supplementary Texts:
  Muhammad al-Haashimee, al-Qawaa’id al-Asaasiyyah lil-Lughatil-‘Arabiyyah
‘Abdus-Salaam Haaroon, Qawaa‘id al-Imlaa
Ahmad al-Haashimee, al-Mufrad al-‘Alam fee Rasmil-Qalam
‘Umar Sulaymaan, Daleel at-Taalib ilaa Istikhdaam al-Ma‘aajim al-‘Arabiyyah
 
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