Faculty of Literature

(Adab)

Among the Fatimi Arabic literary texts studied at Aljamea are the works of writers such as al-Syed al-Amīr al-Tamim, Syedna al-Muayyad al-Shirazi RA, Syedna Ali bin al-Maula Mohammed al-Walīd RA, Syedna Taher Saifuddin RA and Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA. An in-depth study of the corpus of Lisān al-Daʿwa literature and literary works of key authors such as Syedi Abdeʿali ʿImaduddin QR, Syedi Sadiqʿali Saheb QR and Syedi Luqmanjee Saheb QR are an integral part of the curriculum.

Notable poets of Arabic literature such as al-Mutanabbi, Ibn Hāni al-Andalusi, Sharif Raḍi and Ahmed Shawqī together with prominent poets of the English langauge also comprise important parts of the course.

Core Topics

Core Topics

years

Quranic literature

1 & 2

Core Topics

year

Study of key literary figures

3

Core Topics

year

Shakespeare and his contemporaries

4

Victorian literature and culture

4

Critical perspectives

4

Core Topics

year

Pre-Islamic Arabic literature

5

Core Topics

year

Modern Arabic literature

6

Islamic Arabic literature

4

Core Topics

year

Comparative study of Urdu, Arabic and Lisan al-Daʿwa literature

7

Core Topics

years

Study of the Maqāmāt genre (assemblies)

8 & 9

Classical literature

4

Romanticism

4

Core Topics

years

Contemporary writing

10 & 11

Modernism

4

Post-colonial writing

4

Arabic lexicology

4