University Requirements Student must complete 19 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
10032100	Remedial English	0
Remedial English (E10032100) is a three-hour non-credited English course offered to students who score poorly (i.e. below 50%) on the placement test. Since the major concern of this course is to improve the students? proficiency before starting their ordinary university English basic courses and major courses taught in English, special emphasis has been placed on enhancing the students? ability to effectively acquire the four language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Specifically, the course attempts to ensure an academically acceptable performance on the part of the students at the level of the English basic courses. Moreover, the course aims at expanding students? vocabulary needed for various tasks.
11000101	Islamic Culture	3
This course aims to establish the concept of Islamic culture and its position among the other international cultures, its position in the Muslim life, its sources, its bases and its characteristics. It also aims to introduce the Islamic culture in faith, worship, relations, morals, and knowledge, to discuss the clash between cultures in addition to Globalization, Human Rights, Woman Rights, Democracy and other contemporary issues.
11000102	Arabic Language	3
This course aims to improve the level of students in language skills and various literary, read and absorb and express written, and oral and tasted literary, through texts flags authors and poets in different eras, lessons in grammar and spelling, and brief definition months dictionaries and Arab old ones the modern and how to use them. This course aims to implement the Arabic language in the areas of reading and expression of both types oral and written communication.
11000103	English Language I	3
University English I (E11000103) is a three credit-hour university-required English language course designed for students who need to work on the four skills of the language: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. The development of vocabulary and skills of comprehension are integral parts of the course. In addition, various reading strategies (making predictions, identifying main ideas, reading for details, relating information in the text to life experience) are introduced and developed through a wide range of topics for reading and writing. The course encourages a more analytical and independent approach to study and helps prepare the students for any subsequent exam preparation.
11000105	Palestinian Studies	3
The course is mandatory for university students from various disciplines, so it provides students with knowledge and `information about the Palestinian reality and in particular the political developments of the Palestinian cause since its inception until the present day in line social and economic developments and political which constitute the main pillars for the study of the Palestinian political reality. This course aims to study the Palestinian issue from its beginning until present in social, economic and political issues.
11000108	Community Service	1
This course aims to connect university students with charitable, community, and public institutions, while also enhancing students? role towards society and familiarizing them with humanitarian needs by providing assistance to targeted groups. It seeks to improve the living conditions of marginalized and impoverished populations. The course prioritizes achieving the greatest possible number of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the Palestinian context. This is not only through raising awareness and introducing these goals, but also by offering students opportunities to engage practically in implementing various SDGs locally. Students will participate in programs, projects, and activities aimed at reducing poverty and hunger, providing medical services, treatment, and medication to marginalized and poor groups, supporting gender equality and education, including persons with disabilities and special needs, preserving water resources and natural resources, raising awareness on alternative and clean energy, caring for the environment and agriculture, recycling solid materials, rejecting discrimination, promoting green spaces, and encouraging productive and forestry farming. Students enrolled in the course can join different stages designed with alternatives for each phase, allowing them to complete the requirements under flexible conditions. This approach benefits the community while developing students? skills and experiences.
11000117	Leadership and Communication Skills	1
The course aims to assist students in acquiring modern concepts in the field of communication and understanding the essential skills for effective communication with oneself and others. This is achieved through the use of effective teaching methods that rely on student engagement and motivation to learn through training and self-directed learning. The course emphasizes skill development through teamwork and interactive methods, helping students improve their verbal and non-verbal communication skills by learning public speaking and the fundamentals of oration. Additionally, it helps students develop active listening skills, and contributes to enhancing their abilities in dialogue and persuasion, overcoming public speaking anxiety, self-promotion, negotiation, job interviews, presentation and delivery, and writing. The course also provides students with knowledge about innovative and creative ideas that can be implemented, as well as how to write a resume. Furthermore, the course aims to refine students' personalities through participation in group presentations.
11000126	Introduction to Computer Science and Skills	2
This course aims to enrich students with the basic computer skills alongside with the theoretical and practical backgrounds behind those skills. First of all, software and hardware components of a computer are discussed. This forms the substrate from which a student can realize the practical applications of a computer, especially in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thereafter, the student awareness for the security vulnerabilities of a computer system is improved through discussing the threats associated with the absolute dependability on the Internet in storing critical data. This is conducted with presenting the basic secure Internet frameworks for students with emphasis on scientific research platforms (ResearchGate, Google Scholar, LinkedIn,?etc). Finally, word processing, statistical analysis and presentation software are discussed with practical applications in the lab.
11000327	English Language II	3
University English II is a three-credit hour university-required English language course specifically designed to meet the needs of the students of the humanities and social sciences. The instructors of the course will employ a broad-based approach by integrating the four language skills, in order to enable students to improve their reading skills and comprehension of a variety of academic texts and to provide their own input by expressing their opinions on the topics under discussion, through either verbal participation in class or written assignments at home. As the discussions in class will be held in English, this is hoped to enhance the listening comprehension of students as well as provide them with opportunities to exercise their speaking skills. The units in the prescribed textbook have been organized according to the various strategies that students need to practice in order to improve their speed and comprehension, particularly while reading on an academic subject in English. These strategies include understanding vocabulary in context, using the dictionary, understanding information from graphs and charts, scanning for specific information, taking notes from reading, studying collocations ?. etc. In Addition to the texts set for intensive reading, six more passages are also considered as self ? reading passages so as to encourage students to read at home and contact their instructors.

Speciality Requirements Student must complete 76 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
10401111	Principles of Research	2
This training course is designed to provide students with the necessary skills to do research. The course introduces students to research skills, conditions criteria, manuscript editing and art of writing. By end of the course, each student is expected to deliver a paper in their major. Instructor's evaluation of student's work will depend on how much the student was committed to the scientific research criteria.
10401112	Fiqh of Praying and Fasting	3
This course deals with the following topics: the rules of purity, types of water and impurities, ablution, purity bath, tayammum or sand ablution, rules of menstruation and post-discharge state; rules of prayers, prayer times, manner, pillars, conditions; special prayers such as traveler's prayer, Friday prayer, Eid or fesivals prayer, rain-invoking prayer, fear prayer and funeral prayer. It presents rules of fasting, its definition, conditions, pillars, fasting violators kinds, making the days up, expiatation of fasting, and the rules of fast-breaking charity
10401113	Fiqh of Zakat and Hajj	3
This course introduces the following topics: marriage contract, engagement, guardianship in marriage, marriage rights and duties, impacts of marriage contract such as: dowry, nafaqa (adequate financial support for the wife), and legal shelter. It also addresses divorce, khul' (divorce initiated by wife after paying compensation) and separation between the couple, impacts of divorce on child custody, nafaqa and compensation. The course ends with a detailed analysis of the personal status law articles dealing with these issues.
10401114	Fiqh of Marriage and Divorce	3
This course examines the following topics: marriage contract, engagement, custodianship in marriage, marriage rights and duties, conditions, requirements, and elements of marriage contract: dowry, nafaqa (adequate support for the wife), and legal shelter. It also addresses divorce, khul' (divorce initiated by wife after paying compensation) and separation between the couple, impacts of divorce on custody, nafaqa and compensation. The course ends with a detailed analysis of the personal status law articles dwelling on these issues.
10401116	Selling and Lease Contracts	3
This course deals with a number of topics: the concept of nominate contracts, classifications of financial contracts, levels of contracts; necessity, suspension, invalidity, validity and the nullity of the contract; it also deals with sale contract: its pillars, impacts, subcontracts of sale contracts such as contract of manufacture, forward sales contract, contract of money exchange; in addition to lease contract: its pillars, types and impacts. The course also holds a comparison between these contracts and the laws of contracts effective in Palestine especially related to landlords and tenants.
10401130	Islamic Ruling	3
This courses introduces students to the following topics: introduction to the science of Jurisprdence: its origin, main subject, history, and the most important publication on it, legal ruling and its divisions, the manotary provision and its divisions; the positive provision and its divisions; the ruling, the subject of ruling, and the one upon which the ruling is given.
10401215	Inheritance	3
This course covers a number of topics: reasons of inheritance, its conditions and impediments to inheritance, heirs, the increase of inheritance shares, inheritance given to blood relations, inheritance by estimation, mandatory will, transitional inheritance effective in Islamic courts, in addition to examining the items of personal status law which deals with such issues.
10401231	Legislation Sources	3	10401130
This course addresses the following topics: evidence of the legal judgments (rulings): the Holy Qur'an, Sunna, consnsus, analogy, absolute interest, commendation, blocking the pretexts, customs, actions of prophet's companions, and legislations of earlier nations.
10401234	Rules of Fiqh(Qawa'id Fiqhiyyah)	3
Topics covered in this course include the following: introduction to fiqh principles/maxims, their topics, importance, origin, and development of sources; differences between fiqh principles and fundamental maxims; most important old and modern publications; fields agreed upon and school maxims. This is in addition to a detailed study coupled with examples and application of the five fiqh maxims and others in numerous fields.
10401433	Discretion & Shari'a Intents	3
This course addresses a number of topics: introduction to ijtihad (individual interpretation/ judgment), its importance, types, applications and purposes; introduction to purposes of shari'a, their importance, types, levels, manner of preserving them; contemporary fiqh applications on ijtihad according to shari'a purposes.
10401436	Islamic Education Practicum	2
This course aims at providing students with skills on how to prepare teaching plans, implement correct procedures, and how to design a class. Every student will make observation of classes for junior and secondary school teachers so as to be able to link between theoretical knowledge they receives in class and practical teaching. This practical experience will allow them to learn about the school current state of affairs. Every student will also teach school classes and will be evaluated by the instructor, school headmaster/ headmistress, and the Islamic education teacher. The course is divided into two parts: the theoretical part which is given 16 hours, and the practical part which is given 60 hours.
10401438	Graduation Project	1	10401111
This practical course aims at training students to write a paper specific to religion fundamentals. Each student is expected to deliver a well-researched paper to the instructor on a topic related to their major. The instructor will evaluate their paper according to the rubrics of scientific research writing: stages of writing will include the choice of topic, topic of research, research outline and writing.
10406142	Ulom Al_Qur'an	3
This course covers the following topics: definition of the Holy Qur'an, comparison between the Holy Qur'an and Hadith (prophetic teachings), most important sciences related to the Holy Qur'an: Allah's divine message conveyed to the prophet (wahi), manner of revelation, collection and documentation of the Qur'an and writing it down, reasons for revelation, Meccan and Medinan chapters, the seven readings, Qur'an miraculous aspects, interpretation and explanation, various layers of interpreters and their methodologies.
10406143	Ulom Al_Hadith & Thentication	3
The course covers the following topics: status and importance of Sunna as well as its authenticity, definition of the science of Hadith s, its origin and the relevant terminology, the most important publications on Hadith sciences and the Hadith narrations; the chain of transmission and the content of Hadith (Sanad and Matn respectively), the Hadith narration and performance, ways of endurance, narrating the Hadith by paraphrasing; Science of discrediting or confirming the reliability of narrators, its ranks, layers of narrators, deviding the Hadiths into: successively narrated, the well-known Hadith (which is not totally successively narrated), individually narrated Hadith, the good Haith, the weak Hadith, and the fabrications added into the Hadith.
10406144	Qur'anic Recitation	3
Topics covered in this course include manners of recitation, the virtue and ranks of recitation, the definition of tajwid (reciting the verses in the best way), its position, the rules of saying the Isti'atha: (I seek refuge in Allah from the cursed Satan) and al-basmalah (saying: In the name of Allah) rules related to some sound like the non-voweled N and M, rules of elevating or lowering sounds (accentuated - deaccentuated), the different ways of pronouncing the letter R, places of articulation, manner of articulation, voiceless and voiced sounds, how to pronounce the definite article AL, symbols of making pauses or stop during recitation, the Qur'anic Script, in addition to other Tajweed rulings taking into consideration that students practice and apply these rules as practical classes will be given 70% of the course.
10406149	Exegesis "Tafsir 1"	3	10406142
This course is devoted to the interpretation of Al-An'am chapter: analytical interpretation, highlighting the miraculous aspects of this chapter. This is in addition to the chapter's presentation style of the issue of aqida (creed) and the manner of debating infidels; wisdom from the Meccan Quran's focus on Islamic faith rather than legislative details.
10406155	Analytical Hadith 1	3	10406143
This course is a study of 33 hadiths from Jami' al-Uloom wal Hikam (according to the analytical method). The course addresses hadiths dealing with niya (intention) iman (belief), bid'a (condemnable innovation) shubohat (doubts) nasiha (advice) brotherhood, tawba (repentance), soul infusion in body.
10406160	The Islamic Creed I	3
Islamic Creed ('aqida) course deals with the following topics: the meaning of the concept: Islamic Creed, its characteristics, and its impact on the individual as well as the society. It also discusses the Qur'an's approach of establishing the 'aqida, signs or indications of the existence of the Creator; issues that ban people from believing in Allah; the meaning of monotheism, its types, requirements and the acts which nullify the belief; a brief explanation of other pillars of belief: the belief in angles, heavenly-revealed books, messengers, the day of judgment and fate and divine decree.
10406245	Recitation 1	1	10406144
The course deals with the following topics: the recitation of the 29th and the 30th parts of the Holy Qur'an, in terms of recitation, memorization, taking into account the practical application of the rules of Tajweed.
10406246	Recitation 2	1	10406245
The course deals with the following topics: Al-Baqara Chapter, in terms of recitation, memorization, taking into account the practical application of the rules of Tajweed.
10406247	Recitation 3	1	10406246
The course deals with the following topics: the recitation of the 27th and the 28th parts of the Holy Qur'an, in terms of recitation, memorization, taking into account the practical application of the rules of Tajweed.
10406258	Principles of Hadith Drivaton	3	10406143
This course deals with the following issues: methods of haditg verification and sourcing from the authentic sources of sunnah, the method of sourcing the hadith using the computer, the way by which they can collect the hadiths and organize them, how to draw the hadth sourcing tree, judgement steps by which they can examin the authentication of the hadith in terms of the narrators and the text itself. The practical classes are given almost 70% of the total number of classes.
10406263	Syntax Studies 1	3	11000102
The topics which covered in this course are: parts of speech: nouns, verbs, etc. the static (al-mabni) and the inflected (al-mu'rab), the definite and the indefinite nouns, the subject and the predicate, the nominative subject of the verb (was, etc.) and the predicate of (inna), verbs and their parts and tenses. The course laso presents some texts from the Qur'anic scripts and honarable hadith, in addition to the speeches of the Arabs.
10406274	Rhetoric in The Holy Quran	3
This course begins with the definition of rhetoric as a science inimitability of the Qur'anic rhetorical style; concept, importance, characteristics, most important writings on it, past and present, rhetoric of word in the Holy Qur'an, science of meaning, science of philology, and science of rhetorical figures. This will be accompanied with practical applications of each on the Holy Qur'an verses. The course caps with an artistic description in the Holy Qur'an.
10406364	Syntax Studies 2	3	10406263
This course covers several topics, including the accusative cases, such as the five objects (direct object, the exception (Istithna'), the circumstantial adverb, and specification (Tamyiz). It also addresses the genitive cases, numbers and their pronouns, and the dependent elements (Al-Tawabi'), which include conjunction (Atf), apposition (Badal), the emphasis (Tawkeed), and descriptive adjective. The course incorporates practical examples from Qur'anic verses, Hadith, and classical Arabic texts. Additionally, it includes the parsing and grammatical analysis of Surah Al-Kahf, focusing on the extraction and application of grammatical rules.
10406366	Art of Oration	2
This course covers the following topics: the importance of public speaking and its role in raising awareness and providing guidance, how to prepare a successful speech, the characteristics of an effective speech, the foundations for selecting the topic of a speech, the qualities of a successful speaker, and the pitfalls to avoid in both the speaker and the speech. It also addresses teaching-related topics, including the significance of lessons, the differences between a lesson and a speech, how to prepare a successful lesson, and how to plan sequential lessons. Additionally, the course includes contemporary examples of prominent speakers and teachers through YouTube and video presentations. The course also emphasizes practical training and real-world application by the students, with the practical component constituting 70% of the course.
10406453	The Inimitability of The Qur'an	3
The course covers the following topics: the definition of the word miracle, the concept of miraculous aspects, the importance of miraculous nature, the history as well as the progress of research on the miraculous aspects, a comparison between the miracles of prophets, types of the miraculous aspects of the Holy Qur'an: the legislative, rhetorical, scientific, numeral,etc.
10406462	Comparative Religions	3
The course deals with the following topics: introduction to comparative religions, its origin, the efforts of Muslim scholars in this field, the current state of this discipline in this modern age. It also includes a detailed study on Judaism and Christianity in terms of: their beliefs, sects, the most important legislations, rituals, festivals, sacred religious texts (scripture), and their contemporary reality. It deals with certain religious texts chosen from the bible or the Tora to be compared with other corresponding religious texts from the Holy Qur'an; in addition to a brief study on non-heavenly religions aiming at offering a general introduction on them.
10411179	Introduction to Islamic Banks	3
This course covers the following topics: the emergence and development of Islamic banks, their foundations, objectives, characteristics, social and economic roles, and their relationship with central banks and conventional banks. It also explores the sources of funds, investment and financing mechanisms in Islamic banks, including financing structures such as Murabaha for the orderer to purchase, joint mudarabah, ownership-ending partnership, leasing ending in ownership, and the banking services offered. Additionally, it covers the criteria for profit distribution, management of Islamic banks, Shari'ah supervision in Islamic banks, and practical applications of Shari'ah supervision.

Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 12 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
10401224	Fiqh of Legislative Verses and Hadiths	3
Topics covered in this course are importance of studying fiqh issues based on legislative texts, presentation and demonstration on verses of commandments (ayat al-ahkam), and on hadiths of commandments and their methods. This is in addition to an analytic
10401321	Fiqh of Political System in Islam	3
Topics covered in this course include the foundations of the political system in Islam, its features; refutation of secularism; concept of pledge of allegiance, concept of social contract, mutual commitments emerging from them; head of state and his duti
10401322	Criminal Legislation	3
This course addresses the following topics: Islamic criminal system, its foundations and characteristics, suspicions raised around the Islamic criminal system; discussion of these suspicions; rules for crimes on self, excluding self and embryo; penal la
10406248	Qur'anic Story Telling	3
the course deals with various topics: the meaning of the word "story" in language and convention, the meaning of the concept: the Qur'anic story, its objectives, characteristics, and the most crucial douts which were raised against the Qur'anic story, and how such doubts were refuted; a detailed study on some stories such as the story of Adam, Noah, Moses, Solomon, David, (PBUT), other samples of stories of people who are not prophets might be studied such as the story of Saul, Kurah, and the People of the Cave.
10406250	Analytical Interpretation 2	3	10406142
This course is devoted to the analytical interpretation of An-Nur chapter, in addition to the Medinate Qur'anic chapters' presentation of the punishments stipulated in the Qur'an such as the punishment of adultery, the accusation of chaste women, it aims at presenting a detailed study on the event of slandar and the morals concluded, the Islamic rulings which protect and preserve the society and guarantee chasity, the rules of asking for permission, the rulings of clothing and accessories; then, students would be asked to present the interpretation of the 28th part.
10406254	Fiqh of Siyra	3
The course covers the following topics: the concept of biography, its resources, importance, benefits and advantages gained from the study, and the particularities of it. It also discuses the most important contemporary doubts which were raised on it, and they were refuted; it deals with a very detailed and analytical study of the events which had taken place since the prophet's birth till his death, benefiting form the morals concluded from such events.
10406351	Methods of Exegesis	3	10406142
The course deals with the following topics: introduction to Qur'anic interpretation (tafsir), and the allegorical interpretation (ta'wil), and the differences between the two approaches, the conditions of the Qur'anic interpretor, interpretation by using: the narrated traditions or by opinion; in addition to presenting some interpretations of the deviant sects, and interpretations of contemporary interpretors.
10411175	Fiqh of Contemporary Financial Transaction	3
This course covers the following topics: contemporary financial jurisprudential issues, such as: rulings on usury in sales and exchanges, the issue of two sales in one contract, possession (catching the money): its rulings and modern applications, the sale of debt and its contemporary practices, rulings on credit cards, the rulings on the fluctuation of paper currency values, tawarruq and its modern applications, the selling plus (murabaha) for the orderer to purchase, and the jurisprudence of commercial papers.
10411376	Fiqh of Financial Markets	3
This course introduces students to the concept of stock exchanges, their importance, functions, types, instruments and ways of trading in them. It also addresses the shari?arules pertinent tothese exchanges, Islamic stock exchangesharesandtheircharacteris
11011222	Entrepreneurship and Innovation	3
Explores the world of entrepreneurship and creativity by examining the processes and techniques used to develop ideas and turn them into successful projects. The course includes understanding the foundations of entrepreneurship and the stages of emerging business development, in addition to analyzing the factors that affect the success of entrepreneurial projects and enhancing creativity in various fields.

Sub-specialty Requirements Student must complete 21 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
10301111	Introduction to Literary Appreciation	3
This course aims at introducing the elements of the creative process: the creativity, the text, and the recipient, and attempts to identify with the artistic, intellectual, and psychological aspects of the literary text, and propelling students? abilities to receive the text spontaneously; establishing an effective relationship between them and the text, on the one hand, and with the text and its social environment on the other, through high texts from different ages.
10301112	Morphology	3
This course is designed to introduce the linguistic levels and the morphological status. After this, the course moves to cover a number of morphological topics: morphological derivatives, dualism, I?lal (defectiveness), Ibdal (appositional substantive), reduction, relation, and assimilation, etc. This is coupled with an application of the topics in the form of exercises.
10301113	Arabic Rhetoric 1	3
This course addresses the study of the topics of rhetoric and eloquence; the student studies types of metaphor, linguistic and intellectual tropes, metonymy and preterition. It also studies affectation and embellishments. The course is coupled with an application on a set of selected literary texts.
10301117	Literature and Texts in the Islamic Era	3	10301115
This course is designed to introduce students to the Islamic perspective on poetry, the media warfare the Ansar poets had to go through against the ethnic poets of Mecca, and monitors the traditional and new purposes that accompanied the triumph poetry. It also studies the magnificent masterpieces of contemporary poets, and identifies the Islamic and Jahili penetrations.
10301329	Modern Palestinian Literature	3
This course is designed to address Palestinian literature in its different times and places: Palestinian literature before 1948, exile literature as well as poetry of the Nakba (disaster 1948), resistance literature in occupied Palestine between the years 1948 and 1967, prose poetry and free verse, and a study of the Palestinian writers Ibrahim Touqan, Abd- Al Karim Al Karmi (Abu Salma), Tawfiq Sayegh, Tawfiq Ziad, and Mahmoud Darwish. The course also studies the Palestinian novel in terms of origins, evolution, the most prominent symbols in exile and in Palestine, such as Ghassan Kanafani, Emil Habibi. It also considers the short story in different environments and at different times, so as to cover the short story map since its very beginning until Al-Aqsa Intifada, and chooses the models of Najati Sodqi, Sameera Azzam, Mahmoud Shuqair, Tawfiq Fayyad, Liana Bader, Akram Haneyya; furthermore, it covers distinct autobiographies such as those by Fadwa Touqan, and Jabra. I. Jabra.
10301334	Modern Linguistics	3
The course aims to provide students with a basic knowledge of modern linguistics, the linguistics illustrated by the articulatory and morphological circles concerned with types of morphemes, and the syntactic modern theories. The course includes the modern linguistic schools: constructive, Chomsky?s structural syntax, and others; it also highlights linguistics? relationship to other sciences, such as psychology, sociology and anthropology.
10301437	Modern Arabic Prose	3	10301332
This course addresses the modern prose art, beginning with the short story, the modern Arabic novel, and the Arabic play, as it studies their emergence in the Arabic literature since their 20th century beginnings, and highlights their pioneers, trends, themes, artistic properties, and evolution in the modern Arabic literature. The course is coupled with application models on the short story, novel and play.

Sub-specialty Optional Requirements Student must complete 3 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
10301219	Prosody and Rhyme	3
This course is designed to introduce prosody in terms of resources, terms, role in musical poetry, and the poetic verses and the different anapests, and then to highlight the divisions of poetry schemes: syllables, rhythms, divisions, and defects. In addition, the course addresses the modernization movement in Arabic poetry music: Muwashshah, free verse, and rhythm.
10301221	Arabic Philology	3
Topics covered in this course include: the origin and development of the Arabic language, and theories that study this development, such as dialects, places, and characteristics. It also studies Arabic?s relationship with Semitic languages, the study of the extinct Arabic epigraphs, the study of the remaining Arabic and its characteristics, the characteristics and features of the mutual languages, and furthermore, duplicity, syntactics and the linguists? viewpoints, derivatives, parsers, synonyms, antonyms, syntax, portmanteau, and discussing the linguists points? of view in the previous cases.
10301325	Jerusalem in Arabic Literature	3
This course covers the holy city?s presence in the ancient and modern prose and poetry of Arabic literature, and it identifies the most important intellectuals who wrote in these fields, highlighting their orientations and visions, then their artistic properties. The course tackles the distinct ages and literary arts where Jerusalem was uniquely present and addressing the reasons for this presence.
10301331	Poetry in the Abbasid Age	3	10301118 or 10301218 or 10301117
This course is designed to introduce students to the literary and intellectual life in the Abbasid Era (132-656), and identify the impact of amusement, lechery, heresy, populism and asceticism in poetry, the process of modernizing and the most prominent trends in poetry, alongside with the identifying the masters of poetry (Bashar, Abu Nawwas, Abu Al-Atahya, Abu Tammam, Al Buhturi, Ibn Al Rumi, Al Mutanabbi, Abu Firas Al Hamadani, and Al Ma?arri). Finally, the course examines literary texts and shows the artistic characteristics of this poetry.
10301435	Approaches of Modern Literary Criticism	3	10301328
Students are introduced to the most important methods of literary criticism from the 19th century approaches (Sainte Beuve, Hippolyte Taine, and Prontera), and addresses Impressionism, the non-structural curriculum scripts (psychological and social), and reaches out to the structural curriculum scripts, and those that address the receiver (semiotics and deconstruction), and the modern Arab literary criticism masters? interaction with these curriculum approaches as well as the most important doctrines of classic, romantic and realistic literature.