Full course description
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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