{"id":4531,"date":"2026-06-17T07:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dar.aswu.edu.eg\/en\/?page_id=4531"},"modified":"2026-06-17T07:49:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:49:55","slug":"course-description-department-of-literary-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dar.aswu.edu.eg\/en\/course-description-department-of-literary-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Descriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4531\" class=\"elementor elementor-4531\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-864f2fb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"864f2fb\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-232a10b\" data-id=\"232a10b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-05abfdc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"05abfdc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 10-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva;\"><strong>Course Descriptions &#8211; Department of Literary Studies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-73b5267 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"73b5267\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-757bf31\" data-id=\"757bf31\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f9a3f5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"f9a3f5f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 10-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-toggle{text-align:left}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title{font-weight:700;line-height:1;margin:0;padding:15px;border-bottom:1px solid #d5d8dc;cursor:pointer;outline:none}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title .elementor-toggle-icon{display:inline-block;width:1em}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title .elementor-toggle-icon svg{margin-inline-start:-5px;width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title .elementor-toggle-icon.elementor-toggle-icon-right{float:right;text-align:right}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title .elementor-toggle-icon.elementor-toggle-icon-left{float:left;text-align:left}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title .elementor-toggle-icon .elementor-toggle-icon-closed{display:block}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title .elementor-toggle-icon .elementor-toggle-icon-opened{display:none}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title.elementor-active{border-bottom:none}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title.elementor-active .elementor-toggle-icon-closed{display:none}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title.elementor-active .elementor-toggle-icon-opened{display:block}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-content{padding:15px;border-bottom:1px solid #d5d8dc;display:none}@media (max-width:767px){.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-title{padding:12px}.elementor-toggle .elementor-tab-content{padding:12px 10px}}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-toggle,.e-con>.elementor-widget-toggle{width:var(--container-widget-width);--flex-grow:var(--container-widget-flex-grow)}<\/style>\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2611\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2611\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">First Year<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2611\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2611\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Course Outline: Pre-Islamic Literature<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">This course is taught for four hours per week during the first semester and covers the following topics:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Defining the terms used in history, literature, and the pre-Islamic era.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">The temporal and geographical boundaries of the pre-Islamic era.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">The Arabian environment in the pre-Islamic era: place and people.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Intellectual, social, political, economic, and religious life in the pre-Islamic era.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">The language of pre-Islamic poetry and its documentation: oral and written forms.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">The Narration of pre-Islamic poetry.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Sources of pre-Islamic poetry.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">The issue of plagiarism in pre-Islamic poetry.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">The purposes of pre-Islamic poetry.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Prominent poets of the pre-Islamic era.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Prose genres in the pre-Islamic era.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Examples of poetry and prose from the pre-Islamic era.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Applications: Questions, projects, research, discussions, or presentations.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">2. Course Outline: Texts from the Pre-Islamic Era<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">This course is taught for four hours per week during the second semester and covers the following topics:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Introduction: Guidelines for reading pre-Islamic poetry and prose.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Practical examples of reading pre-Islamic poetry and prose, both ancient and modern.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">The Mu&#8217;allaqat (The celebrated collection of pre-Islamic Arabic odes).<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">The poetry of the outlaws.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Bedouin and urban poetry.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">The language and structures of pre-Islamic poetry.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">The structure and artistic characteristics of the pre-Islamic poem.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Analysis of complete examples of pre-Islamic poetry.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">The language and structures of pre-Islamic prose.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">The structure and artistic characteristics of pre-Islamic prose.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Analysis of complete examples of pre-Islamic prose.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">Applications including questions and a presentation project.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2612\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2612\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Second year<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2612\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2612\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">1. Course Outline: Literature in the Early Islamic and Umayyad Eras:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">This course, taught for four hours per week during the first semester, covers the early Islamic and Umayyad periods as follows:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">The influence of the Holy Quran and the Prophetic Hadith on language and literature in the early Islamic and Umayyad eras.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">The relationship between Islam and poetry.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Poetry in support of the Islamic call.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">The development of poetic themes in the early Islamic and Umayyad eras.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Poetry on the themes of the Islamic call.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Political poetry.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Amorous poetry.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Poetry of invective.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Panegyric poetry.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">The development of prose writing in the early Islamic and Umayyad eras.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">The aesthetics of the Prophetic Hadith and its impact on the development of writing.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">The development of the art of oratory in the early Islamic and Umayyad eras.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">The development of the Epistolary Art in the early Islamic and Umayyad eras.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">The development of the art of Endorsements and wills in the early Islamic and Umayyad eras.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Applications of the content.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">2. Course Content: Texts from Islamic and Umayyad Literature<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">This course, taught for four hours per week during the second semester, covers the following topics:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Introduction to reading and analyzing literary texts.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Characteristics of Qur&#8217;anic expression through a model from the Holy Qur&#8217;an.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Characteristics of Prophetic expression through a model from the Prophetic Hadith.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Characteristics of Islamic Da&#8217;wah poetry (an applied example from one of the Da&#8217;wah poets).<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Features of the art of Naqa&#8217;id (polemical satire) through examples from the Umayyad era.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Features of Amorous poetry through an example from the Umayyad era.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Features of political poetry through an example from the Umayyad era.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Analysis of examples from each prose genres in the early Islamic and Umayyad periods: oratory, Official Endorsements, Epistolary Writing, and testaments.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Applications of the course content.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2613\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2613\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Third year<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2613\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2613\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">1) Literary Outline in the Abbasid and Andalusian Eras:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">This course, consisting of four hours per week in the first semester, covers the history of Abbasid and Andalusian literature as follows:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">First: Abbasid Literature:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">(a) The general influences of Abbasid literature.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">(b) The Development of poetry in the Abbasid era and an introduction to its artistic characteristics.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">(c) The Development of prose in this era and an introduction to its artistic characteristics.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">(d) The flourishing of authorship and its most prominent works.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">(e) Literary translations.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Second: Andalusian Literature:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">(a) General influences on Andalusian literature.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">(b) The classification of Andalusian literature into its various eras, with overview of the development of its literary forms.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">(c) Literary biographies of prominent poets and prose writers, and an introduction to the most important literary works and their approaches.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">2) Content outline of Abbasid and Andalusian Texts:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Especially four hours per week in the entire second semester:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Introduction to Modern Approaches to Literary Studies:<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\"> Stylistics, artistic study, the Psychoanalytic Approach to literature, and Other approaches.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Applied reading of Abbasid and Andalusian poetry and prose texts, both old and new editions.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Poetry samples from various poets<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Bashar ibn Bard, Abu Nawas, Abu al-Atahiyah, Abu Tammam, al-Mutanabbi, Abu al-Ala al-Ma&#8217;arri, Ibn al-Farid, Mihyar al-Daylami.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Poetry samples from various poets<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Ibn Khafajah, Ibn Zaydun, Moatamad ibn Abbad, Hamduna.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Prose from Abbasid and Andalusian literature: Abu al-Ala al-Ma&#8217;arri&#8217;s (Risalat al-Ghufran), Al-Imtaa&#8217; wal-Mu&#8217;ansa li&#8217;l-Tawhidi, and others.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">The Language and Structures of Abbasid Poetry: The language and structures of Andalusian poetry &#8211; The structure and artistic characteristics of Abbasid poetry &#8211; The structure and artistic characteristics of Andalusian poetry &#8211; The language and structures of Abbasid and Andalusian prose &#8211; Analysis of complete models of Abbasid and Andalusian poetry and prose.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Applications include questions and a project.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva;\">(3) Literary Courses: This course, with two hours per week during the academic year, clearly outlines a collection of diverse literary texts from different literary periods, encouraging reading and brief analysis of these texts.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2614\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2614\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Fourth year<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2614\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2614\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">(1) Course Outline for Modern Literature:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">This course, taught for four hours per week during the first semester, covers modern literature and focuses on:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">The temporal and spatial boundaries of modern literature.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Political, social, and scientific influences on modern literature:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Napoleon&#8217;s campaign, the 1952 Revolution, and modern Western philosophies and schools of thought: Marxism, existentialism, symbolism, and structuralism.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Literary movements and schools in the modern era: the Revivalist School, the Emigrant School, the Romantic School, the Diwan School, the Apollo School, the Realist School, modernism, and postmodernism.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">The relationship between the information age and literary arts, and their development.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">The evolution of poetry in terms of form and content in the modern era.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">The emergence and development of the novel and the short story in the modern era.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">The emergence and development of drama in the modern era.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Prominent poets and writers of the modern era (Al-Baroudi, Shawqi, Mutran, Al-Aqqad, Naji, Al-Sayyab, Nazik Al-Malaika, Gibran Khalil Gibran, Al-Fayturi, Amal Dunqul, Adonis, Tawfiq Al-Hakim, Nageib Mahfouz, Ali Ahmed Bakathir, Al-Rafi\u2019i, Taha Hussein, Mahmoud Taymour, and others).<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Examples of poetry, novels, short stories, and plays from the modern era.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Applications, questions, research projects, discussions, or presentations.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">(2) Course Outline: Texts from Modern Literature<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">This course is taught for four hours per week during the second semester and covers:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">An introduction to modern literary studies methodologies:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Russian Formalism, Structuralism, and Deconstruction.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Practical examples of reading modern poetry and prose texts, according to the aforementioned methodologies.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Poetic examples by the poets Al-Baroudi, Shawqi, Al-Aqqad, Khalil Mutran, Abd al-Rahman Shukri, Ibrahim Naji, Ali Mahmoud Taha, Mahmoud Hassan Ismail, Nazik al-Malaika, Ahmed Abdel-Mo&#8217;ti Hegazi, Al-Fayturi, Al-Sayyab, Amal Dunqul, Mahmoud Darwish, Adonis, and Muhammad al-Maghout.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 16px;\">Examples from the novel, short story, play, and essay by: Taha Hussein, Al-Aqqad, Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Taymour, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Al-Rafi&#8217;i, Ahmed Hassan al-Zayyat, Ali Ahmed Bakathir, Youssef Idris, Muhammad Abu al-Ma&#8217;ati Abu al-Naja, Muhammad Munif, Ibrahim al-Kufi, San&#8217;allah Ibrahim, Baha&#8217; Taher, Khalil Roman, Majid Tobia, Tayeb Salih, Zakaria Tamer, Mu&#8217;in Bseiso, and Muhammad Bennis.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; 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