courseTitle
Pre-Islamic Literature
courseCode
ARB 1131
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Total Content
3
courseType
mandatory
Course id
65652594
Course Description
General description of the course:
• This course chronicles Arabic literature in the pre-Islamic era, and deals with pre-Islamic life in the Arabian Peninsula and how it was the cradle of the Semites. It also deals with studying the emergence of pre-Islamic poetry, its narration, its documentation, its characteristics, its poets, and its issues. It also deals with the arts of pre-Islamic prose, such as proverbs, oratory, and soothsayers' rhyme, highlighting their basic lines and the splendor of speech and beauty of their introduction.
5- Prerequisites for this course (if any)
There are no prerequisites
6- Requirements concurrent with this course (if any)
There are no concurrent requirements
7. Main objective of the course
• This course aims to introduce students to literary eras and their time limits, and to understand the nature of life in the pre-Islamic era politically, socially, and economically, and to learn about its most important characteristics, purposes, poets, and issues.