Knowledge and Understanding
Mental abilities
Skills
Knowledge and Understanding
- Describing the correct articulation of Arabic letters.
- Understanding the rules of Arabic grammar.
- Understanding the conjugation of Arabic verbs.
- Demonstrating how Arabic verbs are conjugated.
- Displaying the history of Arabic dictionaries, their types, and methods of searching within them.
- Identifiing different literary movements, their origins, and main features.
- Analyzing literary texts and their cultural contexts.
- Describing the musical structure of Arabic poetry in terms of meter and rhyme.
- Distinguishing the characteristics and features of various critical approaches.
- Stating the differences among the Arabic rhetorical sciences and the subjects of each.
- Explaining the relationship between Arabic literature and the literatures of other nations.
- Clarifing the relationship between the Arabic language and other Eastern Semitic languages.
- Distinguishing the fundamental features of linguistic research fields and modern linguistic schools.
- Recognizing the key topics, issues, and fields of study in Arabic linguistics.
- Presenting the history of Islam and its civilization in the Arab East, Egypt, the Maghreb, and al-Andalus.
- Learning about the history of the Crusades and modern Eastern history.
- Identifing the different Islamic theological sects and philosophical movements.
- Knowing the terminology of the sciences of the Holy Qur’an and the sciences of the Prophetic Hadith.
- Explaining the various methods and approaches in interpreting the Qur’anic text and the Prophetic Hadith.
- Demonstrating how the Qur’anic text addressed the relationship between human beings and their Creator, and among humans in society.
- Learning about the stages of the emergence of philosophy and the Muslim stance toward it.
- Stating the stages of the Islamic call (Da’wah) and the challenges it faced during the life of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
- Interpreting the rulings of worship according to various Islamic jurisprudential schools.
- Explaining the characteristics and features of Islamic creed (‘Aqidah).
- Stating the terminology and topics of both Qur’anic sciences and the Prophetic Sunnah.
- Presenting the fundamental and jurisprudential rules of Islamic law (Fiqh).
- Explaining modern critical approaches.
- Understanding the rules and etiquette of a European language.
Mental abilities
- Inferring grammatical and morphological rules from written or read texts.
- Distinguishing between the articulation points and characteristics of Arabic sounds.
- analysing Critically the literary texts from various perspectives.
- Analyzing poetic text (prosodic analysis).
- Analyzing literary texts in light of their relation to the literatures and cultures of other nations.
- Deducing the relationship between political conditions and intellectual and cultural states—both in periods of advancement and decline—in the history of Islamic civilization.
- Comparing different approaches to interpreting the Qur’anic text.
- Distinguish between the levels of the noble prophetic hadith and the criteria for each: authentic, weak, and fabricated.
- Comparing the features of the Arabic language with other Eastern or Semitic languages.
- Deducing the distinctive features of each field of linguistic research.
- Inferring the relationship between classical rhetorical sciences and modern rhetorical theories.
- Deriving the unique characteristics and features of the rhetoric of the Qur’anic text.
- Deducing the relationship between political systems, cultural movements, and social characteristics, and their impact on literary creativity.
- Distinguishing between topics of philosophy and Islamic theology.
- Compares the various jurisprudential schools in Islamic law.
- Deducing the rules and ethics governing relationships in society through the Qur’anic text.
- Differentiating between the sciences of the Qur’an and the sciences of Hadith.
- Identifiing the challenges faced by the Islamic call (daʿwah) throughout its history.
- Deducing the relationship between Sufism and modern Islamic thought.
Skills
Professional and Practical Skills:
- Speaking fluent and correct Arabic.
- Using proper Arabic grammar in both writing and speaking.
- Reciting literary texts—such as poem, speech, or short story—with accurate delivery.
- Discussing the relationship between the literatures of different languages and cultures.
- Discussing literary texts using various critical approaches.
- Writing a historical research paper on any period of Islamic history.
- Extracting Islamic legal rulings from Quranic verses and Hadiths.
- Discussing philosophical and theological issues from an Islamic perspective.
- Reading texts in a European language.
- Reading Arabic sources in language, literature, and Islamic studies.
General Skills:
- Working in research or work team.
- Conducting objective discussions with neutrality and respect for others’ opinions.
- Performing assigned tasks with honesty and precision.
- Demonstrating strong presentation skills.
- Appling learned knowledge to correct common linguistic mistakes in society.
- Correcting misconceptions about Islam prevalent in the community.
- Utilizing information technology in Arabic and Islamic sciences.

