MAIE630 ARABIC GRAMMAR

Course Description:

This course is a basic Arabic Grammar for the non-Arabic speakers and geared toward learning the Quranic language as a main discipline for specialists in Islamic studies. The course covers; part of speech, gender of nouns, numbers, pronouns, verb’s different tenses, constructing sentences, and other topics.

Course Code: MAIE630

Credit hours: 2

Pre-Requisites: Advance fluency in Arabic

Learning Objectives:

1. Students will be able to introduce students to the basics of Arabic Grammar.
2. Students will be able to provide students with a foundation in simple functional grammatical patterns and the basics for sentence construction.
3. Students will be able to familiarize students with the eloquent language of the Quran.

Course Outline:

• Part of Speech.
• The Gender of Noun.
• Number of Nouns.
• Pronouns.
• Ia’rab (Identifying the position of each word in the sentence).
• Different Phrases; Adjective, relative, demonstrative, and genitive phrase.
• Nominal and verbal sentence.
• Regular and irregular verbs.