Course

Level 3: Arabic Three

Time limit: 365 days
20 credits

£400 Enrol

Full course description

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Students in need of further financial assistance should contact the education team at education@almahdi.edu to enquire about the possibility of further fee waivers. 

 

This level three course is the final Arabic language and grammar course taught at AMI. This course builds upon the skills developed in the first two courses by exposing students to a variety of literary texts to help consolidate their reading and comprehension skills. This is complimented by further training in Arabic grammar. By the end of this course, students should have an advanced level of proficiency in the Arabic language and should be able to decipher classical texts relevant to their Hawza studies at AMI and beyond.

 

Lesson 1      Introduction

                   Irregular verbs

Lesson 2      Weak verbs

                    Useful vocabulary from Kashf al-murād

Lesson 3      Useful vocabulary from Kashf al-murād

Lesson 4      Reading from Kashf al-murād

Lesson 5      Reading from Kashf al-murād

Lesson 6      Reading from Kashf al-murād

Lesson 7      Placing of the ḥamza

                    Dealing with words which have irregular roots

Lesson 8      Dealing with words which have irregular roots

Lesson 9      Reading from the Maqtal of Abū Mikhnaf

Lesson 10    Reading from the Maqtal of Abū Mikhnaf

Lesson 11    Reading from the Maqtal of Abū Mikhnaf

Lesson 12    Superlative (ism tafḍīl)

Reading from the Maqtal of Abū Mikhnaf

Lesson 13    Cardinal and ordinal numbers

Lesson 14    Jāmid and Mushtaq

Lesson 15    Subjunctive verb factors in-depth

Lesson 16    Subjunctive verb factors in-depth

Lesson 17    Reading from Sayyida Khadīja text

Lesson 18    Jussive factors

Lesson 19    Conditional tools which are not jussive

Lesson 20    Reading from Iqtiṣādunā

Lesson 21    Reading from Iqtiṣādunā

                     Nominative nouns

Lesson 22    Reading from Iqtiṣādunā

Lesson 23    al-nawāsikh

Lesson 24    Reading from Iqtiṣādunā

Lesson 25    lā al-nāfiyya li-l-jins

                    Reading from al-Ḥaqāʾiq bāb al-ṣawn

Lesson 26    Reading from al-Ḥaqāʾiq bāb al-ṣawn

Lesson 27    asālīb ʿarabiyya

Lesson 28    al-istithnāʾ and al-taʿʿjub

Lesson 29    Reading from Tafsīr sūrat al-Qadr

Lesson 30    Reading from Tafsīr sūrat al-Qadr

 

Prerequisites

Please note that Arabic Three is only available to those who have completed Arabic Two, except with the approval of the Education Manager (education@almahdi.edu). 

 

Hours of Study

38 hours

 

Assessment Methods

Written exams (100%)

 

Course Instructor

Shaykh Muhammad Reza Tajri

Shaykh Muhammad Reza Tajri began his seminary studies at the Ḥawza ʿIlmiyya of London and went on to complete a BA in Islamic Studies at The Islamic College and Middlesex University. He then moved to Damascus to study at the Ḥawza al-Imām al-Khumaynī. Whilst in Damascus, he also studied advanced Arabic at the University of Damascus. Upon returning to the UK, he completed an MA in Islamic Studies at The Islamic College and Middlesex University and a second MA in Islam in Contemporary Britain at Cardiff University. He is currently completing his PhD at Lancaster University where he is researching evolving perceptions of Shīʿī religious authority on British university campuses. A specialist in the Arabic language, he has been a Lecturer in Arabic at the Al-Mahdi Institute since 2015. He is also the Director of both the Centre of Intra-Muslim Studies (CIMS) and the Inter-Religious Symposia Platform (IRS) and is the lead for research into comparative religion at AMI. His research interests revolve around Muslims in the UK and Europe, contemporary Shīʿism and Shīʿī identity, religious authority, and the impact of gender on religion. He has presented his research at numerous conferences across the UK