Semester | Spring Semester, 2018 | ||
Department | Junior Class of Department of Arabic Language and Culture Senior Class of Department of Arabic Language and Culture | ||
Course Name | Topics on Literature | ||
Instructor | SU I-WEN | ||
Credit | 2.0 | ||
Course Type | Selectively | ||
Prerequisite | Topics on Literature |
Course Objective |
Course Description |
Course Schedule |
Schedule W1 (2/27) Induction W2 (3/6) Akhbār (I) — Quiz W3 (3/13) Akhbār (II) — Quiz W4 (3/20) Biography — Quiz W5 (3/27) Biography W6 (4/3) Biography W7 (4/10) The Qur’an and Interpretation — Quiz W8 (4/17) The Qur’an and Interpretation W9 (4/24) The Qur’an and Interpretation W10 (5/1) Midterm W11 (5/8) Poetry and Wine — Quiz W12 (5/15) Poetry and Wine W13 (5/22) Poetry and Wine — Quiz W14 (5/29) Poetry and Wine W15 (6/5) Maqāmāt — Quiz W16 (6/12) Maqāmāt W17 (6/19) Akhbār (III) W18 (6/26) Final
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Teaching Assistant |
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Requirement/Grading |
Evaluation Attendance: 5% Presentation/ Assignment: 30% Midterm Examination: 20% Final Examination: 25% Quizzes: 20%
*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. Presentation and Assignment Guideline
Presentation and Assignment Topics
1. Write a news article about one of the following subjects: Abū al-ʿIbar, Taʾabbaṭā Sharran, al-Walīd b. ʿUqba, Khālid al-Qasrī, al-ʿArjī, al-Ḥuṭayʾa, al-Ḥusayn b. al-Ḍaḥḥāk, based on the biographies in Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī’s Kitāb al-Aghānī. Every of these subjects did something sensational. You need to write a news-report about the subject and his deed or misdeed. In the news article, you will have to provide the following information: (1) basics about the subject (dates and places of birth and death, if known; his occupation; his associates, including relatives, friends and/or patrons; any information that is relevant to this news); (2) his deed or misdeed that is newsworthy (explain what he did and why it is controversial, from your perspective); (3) include an eyewitness report about the deed or misdeed (you have to provide the name of this witness, as noted in the Kitāb al-Aghānī). Every piece of information has to be referenced (for example, when the birthplace of the subject is given, you need to note the page number, where this information is found in the al-Aghānī).
2. Write a biography about one of the following subjects: ʿAmr b. Kulthūm, Abū Nuwās, and Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī. The information should include: the dates and places of the subject’s birth and demise (if available), his upbringing (family background, education, or anything that may inform his personality), and evaluation of his achievement(s). You need to use at least three primary sources to provide the above information for the biographee. Every piece of information has to be referenced.
3. Write a comparative analysis of the story of a prophet mentioned in the Qur’an. You need to outline what the Qur’an and al-Thaʿlabī say about the prophet in question. You have to compare the elements or details missing in the Qur’an but fleshed out by al-Thaʿlabī as the conclusion (references are required).
4. Write an analysis of one of the following maqāmāt by Badīʿ al-Zaman: al-Baghdādhiyya (71–74), al-Makfūfiyya (93–96), al-Sāsāniyya (108–112), al-Iblīsiyya (208–212). You need to outline the plot of the maqāma in question, and identify its punch-line(s) (quote the key sentences, if necessary). That is, you need to analyse what makes the given maqāma funny.
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Textbook & Reference |
Reading *Coverage of quizzes in bold.
Week 2 Akhbār (I) Ibn al-Marzubān. Tafḍīl Al-Kalb ʿAlā Kathīr Mimmā Labisa Al-Thiyāb. Edited by ‘Iṣām Muḥammad Sabārū. Cairo: Mu’assasat al-Ahrām, 1998, 45–47, 50–53 [Quiz], 57, 61–64, 79–80, 85–90.
Week 3 Akhbār (II) Al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī, Muḥāḍarāt al-udabāʾ wa-muḥāwarāt al-shuʿarāʾ wa-l-bulaghāʾ. Beirut: Dār al-Arqam b. Abī al-Arqam, 1999, vol.2, 660–666 [Quiz].
Weeks 4–6 Biography Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī. Kitāb Al-Aghānī. Edited by Iḥsān ʿAbbās, Bakr ʿAbbās, and Ibrāhīm al-Saʿʿāfīn. 3rd ed. Beirut: Dār Ṣādir, 2008, vol. 18, 122–152 [Quiz: 122–124].
Weeks 7–9 The Qur’an and Interpretation The Qurʾān, 18:83–98 [Quiz W7].
Al-Ṭabarī, Muḥammad b. Jarīr. Jāmiʿ Al-Bayān ʿan Taʾwīl Al-Qurʾān. Edited by Maḥmūd M. Shākir and Aḥmad M. Shākir. Cairo: Dār al-Maʿārif, 1954–1969, vol.15, 368–412.
Al-Thaʿlabī. Qiṣaṣ Al-Anbiyāʾ. Cairo: Maktabat al-Jumhūriyya al-ʿArabiyya, n.d., 409–415 [Quiz W9].
Weeks 11–14 Poetry and Wine ʿAmr b. Kulthūm. Muʿallaqat ʿAmr B. Kulthūm. Edited by Muḥammad ʿA. al-Ḥasanī. Abu Dhabi: Dār al-Kutub al-Waṭaniyya, 2012, 18–69 [Quiz W11: 19–21].
Abū Nuwās. Dīwān Abī Nuwās. Beirut: Dār Ṣādir, n.d., 7–8 [Quiz W11].
Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī. Dīwān Ṣafī Al-Dīn Al-Ḥillī. Edited by Muḥammad Ḥawwar. Beirut: al-Muʾassasat al-ʿArabiyya li-l-Dirāsāt wa-l-Nashr, 2000, 601–602. [Quiz W13]
Weeks 15–16 Maqāmāt Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī. Maqāmāt Badīʿ Al-Zamān Al-Hamadhānī. Edited by Muḥammad ʿAbduh. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2005, 62–66 (al-maqāma al-iṣfahāniyya) [quiz].
Week 17 Akhbār (III) Al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī, Muḥāḍarāt al-udabāʾ wa-muḥāwarāt al-shuʿarāʾ wa-l-bulaghāʾ. Beirut: Dār al-Arqam b. Abī al-Arqam, 1999, vol.2, 264–304 [quiz; 264–270].
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Urls about Course |
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Attachment |
TL II.pdf |