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Attendance: 5%

Participation: 10%

Presentation: 20%

Midterm: 20%

Quizzes: 20%

Essay: 25%

*Participation will involve reading primary texts, translation, and answering questions in class (thus, preparation before class is obligatory). Failure to contribute to the aforementioned activities will be translated into failure to participate. Failing to participate for more than three times means no mark will be given for Participation (10%), unless under objective circumstance that is unforeseeable, unavoidable, and insurmountable.

*Failing to attend the lectures for more than three times means no mark will be given for Attendance (5%), unless under objective circumstance that is unforeseeable, unavoidable, and insurmountable.

*Please note that cheating in quizzes and exams is unacceptable in any circumstance. If you cheat in a quiz or exam, you will be failed.

See Section Three

Supplementary Reading

Abbasid Belles Lettres. Edited by Julia Ashtiany, T. M. Johnstone, J. D. Latham, and R. B Serjeant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period. Edited by A. F. L Beeston, T. M. Johnstone, R. B. Serjeant, and G. R. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Kennedy, Hugh. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates. London: Longman, 1986.

Schoeler, Gregor, and Toorawa Shawkat M, The Genesis of Literature in Islam: From the Aural to the Read. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.