1. Credit hours: (3) Three credit hours 2. Course type: A- ☐ University requirement ☐ College requirement ■ Specialization requirement ☐ Track requirement ☐ Other B- ■ Mandatory ☐ Elective 3. Year/level in which the course is offered: (First year - Second level) 4. General description of the course: • This course studies Arabic literature in the early Islamic and Umayyad eras, and researches aspects of life in the two eras in a research in which introductions and results are arranged in connection with texts. It also researches prominent figures in poetry, rhetoric and writing in a research in which their personalities and literary characteristics are drawn 5- Prerequisites for this course (if any) Pre-Islamic Literature ARB1131 6- Requirements concurrent with this course (if any) There are no concurrent requirements 7. Main objective of the course • Understand the nature of Islamic literature Al-Umayyad poetry and prose, theoretical and practical.