Course Main Objective
To define literature of the early Islam age and its poets, writers and their intellectual and literary attributes; clarify the Holy Quran and the Prophetic Sunna’s position on poets; identify reasons beyond weakness and lack in the said period; train students on analyzing the said era-related literary texts and enable them to capture secrets of artistic expressions; define the Umayyad poetry and its poets and writers as well as their intellectual and literary characteristics and monitor the literary (poetic and prosaic) phenomena appeared in such period such as: Urdhri (pious) poetry, Naqaed (biting refutations) poetry, political poetry and emergence of the phenomenon of Diwaniya messages.
Course Learning Outcomes
- 1. Knowledge and Comprehension
- 1.1 Learn about the most important literary issues in the early Islam period and the Umayyad period and the characteristics of their prose, poetry, most significant topics and issues and most prominent figures.
- 2. Skills
- 2.1 Distinguish the objective issues and attitudes of the poetic and prosaic texts within the age of early Islam and the Umayyad period.
- 2.2 Analyze literary texts properly according to such criteria adopted by the approaches unveiling their aesthetics.
- 2.3 Use communication and information technology and learning resources and communicate effectively orally and in writing upon performing the assignments relating to literature of early Islam period and the Umayyad period and upon searching for literary works and requirements of studying them.
- 3. Values
- 3.1 Assume the individual, collective and leading responsibility and respect personal relationships upon performing the joint assignments relating to literature of early Islam period and the Umayyad period and their duties.
- 3.2 Observe scientific integrity and ethics as a responsible citizen upon performing his literary assignments.
Course Content
- An introduction to the course and its requirements.
- Effect of Islam on poetry and poets and the religion's position on them
- The most significant issues raised about the early Islam period:
1- Weakness
2- Lack
3- The most important issues emerged in the said period and Islam's effect on them, like: (poetry about embracing Islam, praise poetry).
- The meaning of contemporariness "al-khadramah"
- The most prominent poets of the period and examples from their literature along with studying such texts which unveil transformation of ideas, purposes and styles from the previous period (poets of Dawah "inviting people to Islam": Hassan Bin Thabit, Abdulla Bin Rawaha, Ka'b Bin Malik, and poets of the desert: Ka'b Bin Zuhair, Banat Su'ad Poem).
4- Development of oration, oration of the Prophet, may the blessings & peace of Allah be upon him and the Rashidun (the rightly-guided) caliphs.
5- Manifestations of the political, social and cultural life in the Umayyad period and the most important centers of the Umayyad poetry.
a- The environmental effects on the poetry, Najd, the Levant, Iraq
b- The general effects on poets and poetry.
6- Study of poetic phenomena in the Umayyad period:
- The political poetry and praise poetry and a study of examples from such genre.
7- The Naqaed "biting refutations" and most prominent figures of the Naqaed, a study of Naqaed poetic texts and explaining its characteristics.
8- Study of poetic phenomena in the Umayyad period "continued":
- Ghazal (love) and its two types: a study of its texts.
- The most prominent Ghazal poets.
9- The most important prosaic types of such period literature and a study of its texts:
- Oration
- Messages
- Most prominent prose writers
- Poetic and prosaic texts of the period arts and its most prominent poets.
Textbook (s)
- Daif, Shawky. The Age of Islam. Dar Al-Ma'aref. Egypt, 42nd ed., 2012.
- Al-Hady, Salah Al-Din. Literature in the Age of Prophecy and Rashidun. Al-Khangy Bookshop, Egypt, (no. ed.) 2015.
Course ID: ARAB 209
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 3 | 3 | 3 | ARAB 203 |
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