Arabic Language and Literature
Seyed Esmaeil Ghasemi Mousavi
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, , Pages 195-215
Abstract
The text linguistics is one of that fields that has had a great impact on Translation Studies. In many definitions, translation has been defined as the replacement of a text in one language by a text in the target language, and a lot of researchers tried to use theories of text linguistics in translational ...
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The text linguistics is one of that fields that has had a great impact on Translation Studies. In many definitions, translation has been defined as the replacement of a text in one language by a text in the target language, and a lot of researchers tried to use theories of text linguistics in translational investigation. Accordingly, Yousof Noor Ewath tried in a communicative perspective to provide a short history of text linguistics and translation studies in his book "Elmonnas wa Nazariyat Al-Tarjomah" (The Text Linguistics and Translation Theory) and to explain the relationship between these two fields. So at the end of both book's two chapters, he has raised his theory of these fields and named it: (Nazariyat Al-Enziyahat) the shifts of theory. He recognizes three types of meaning in texts as Obligatory Meaning, Extended Meaning and Accessory Meaning, and based on the quantity of these different meanings in texts, it is divided into three types: Literary texts, non-literary text, and Fuzzy texts or Hybrid texts. In his opinion, with regard to this division and differences between each of these types, an appropriate translational strategy should be chosen.This paper with a descriptive-analytic method tries to review this book and to analyze its appearance and content and to assess the degree of realization of book's goals That are, to write a text linguistic approached introduction to translation studies and also tried to study the compatibility of this work contents with Arabic language and literature field. The most important result of current study is as follows two reasons caused this book not to be a comprehensive introduction to the text linguistics and translation studies: first the book was published long time ago, and secondly, the book has not mentioned all the main tendencies of the two fields and lacks all the necessary topics related to curriculum which prevents this book from being considered as the main source of translation theory courses, but paying attention to the new ideas and a strong theoretical framework can present the innovative research ideas and new thinking way about the translation process.
Arabic Language and Literature
Issa Motaghizadeh
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, , Pages 217-233
Abstract
University course books have a determining role in the teaching/learning process. A desirable course book has certain characteristics which differentiates it from a non-academic book. Reviewing and evaluating the content of the course book can lead to a better precision and accuracy in its design and ...
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University course books have a determining role in the teaching/learning process. A desirable course book has certain characteristics which differentiates it from a non-academic book. Reviewing and evaluating the content of the course book can lead to a better precision and accuracy in its design and organization. Using library research methodology in this study, an attempt has been made to obtain a framework which represents university course book characteristics. Our goal in this study was that by analyzing course book content we can also evaluate and review the definition and terminology of course book analysis, its application, dimensions, the related comments and interpretations. The book “Arabic Grammar and Reading” by Dr. Mohammad Reza Najjarian has been chosen as the case study, so we can check how well the book has benefited from the characteristics obtained. Course book is one of the most important and influential instructional medium which is very significant in the realm of education. Analyzing the content of course book can provide a better chance for the authors, course and curriculum planners and instructors to find the strengths and possible weaknesses of the books and also make revisions, and the possible changes to the content the books based on a desirable goal and academic principles can be helpful.
Arabic Language and Literature
Azade Montazeri
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, , Pages 235-253
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Along with the growth and advancement of human sciences and knowledge in the Western countries and their followers, new critical approaches have manifested in Arabic culture by various cultural exchanges, and it encourages Arabic critics to take advantage of the latest global critical results. Western ...
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Along with the growth and advancement of human sciences and knowledge in the Western countries and their followers, new critical approaches have manifested in Arabic culture by various cultural exchanges, and it encourages Arabic critics to take advantage of the latest global critical results. Western criticism has always been gravitated by many adherents who completely ignore their original legacy, but some such as Salah Fazl, an Egyptian well-known researcher and critic, has tried to introduce the results of critical studies and to apply them in all parts of Arabic communities using intellectual and reasonable attitude, and he has scrutinized the old and new Arabic criticism efforts very carefully. In this regard, this paper has explored and studied the book “Minhaj Al-Naghd Al-Moaser” written by Salah Fazl using quantitative and qualitative approaches, and it has evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of the content and form of the mentioned work as well. The results of this study have revealed that the mentioned book has not been written in an academic way due to the lack of references and citations, but it has been written in a way that the author calls it “Oral writing”, and the author of this book is influenced by the writing method used by Taha Hossein and Mohammad Mandoor. Therefore, the author has made impressive strides towards the simple andaccurate understanding of the critical content of this book by its addresses.
Arabic Language and Literature
Reza Nazemian
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, , Pages 255-271
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The critique of the book can be considered as an extension of the writer's efforts in providing research results. Critique is the essence of the research, and this article seeks to review the book "The Seasons of the Transfiguration and Al-Tarib", written by and Egyptian writer and interpreter, Mohammed ...
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The critique of the book can be considered as an extension of the writer's efforts in providing research results. Critique is the essence of the research, and this article seeks to review the book "The Seasons of the Transfiguration and Al-Tarib", written by and Egyptian writer and interpreter, Mohammed al-Batal. The book consists of eight chapters that deal with various subjects in the field of translation from Arabic to English and vice versa, and although all of these chapters, are the subject of an article, they are scattered. They are also dedicated to specialty in translation. The area where the author pays more attention to is the field of terminology, which is a large part of the book, and even a chapter of the book forms a small culture of press terminology. Considering that books on translation theory have a relatively long history and even a few books have been published in Arabic, the book "The Fosoolfi al-tarjomah va al- tarib" was expected from Mohammad al-Batal which was published in 2007 to deepen the field of translational studies, but a glance at the book's list of sources suggests that the author has an extensive research effort. He has not done much about translation technology and has written more practical experiences.
Arabic Language and Literature
Ebrahim Namdari
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, , Pages 273-289
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In the field of observing the standards of scientific papers, researchers take into account principles, rules, and specific criteria which depend on their skills, experience, and great carefulness. The present study aims to review the structure of six articles published in the Journal of Arabic Literature ...
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In the field of observing the standards of scientific papers, researchers take into account principles, rules, and specific criteria which depend on their skills, experience, and great carefulness. The present study aims to review the structure of six articles published in the Journal of Arabic Literature at Tehran University in the field of literature middle age, and their compliance with the standards of scientific papers. Research Standards related to the structure of scientific papers in these six articles suggest that some articles have drawbacks, such as having too general titles, lack of objective research methods in the abstract, weakness in key words, the lack of basic questions, lack of mentioning the literature and stereotypes of result.
Arabic Language and Literature
Yusuf Nazari
Volume 18, Issue 4 , August 2018, , Pages 291-307
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The book “Fi al-nass al-adabi: Dirasah uslubiyah ihsaiyah” written by Dr Saad Moslouh and published in 1993, is one of the foremost and significant works in the area of Arabic studies, dealing with statistical stylistics. In the current study, the book was analyzed in terms of form and content. ...
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The book “Fi al-nass al-adabi: Dirasah uslubiyah ihsaiyah” written by Dr Saad Moslouh and published in 1993, is one of the foremost and significant works in the area of Arabic studies, dealing with statistical stylistics. In the current study, the book was analyzed in terms of form and content. The focus of formal analysis revolved around cover artwork, typography, page layout, and typing errors. The content analysis, on the other hand, incorporated eloquence of expressions, order of the issues, resources, referencing, innovations and analyses and reviews of them. The results of the analyses indicated that since this work has been published almost 20 years ago, it has several deficits in terms of formal features particularly typography and referencing. It should be noted that, in terms of content, despite the novelty of the concepts in the area of Arabic studies, the underlying theoretical issues of the book are mainly adapted from western experts. Thus, it should be considered that the main innovation of the book is adapting the Western concepts and implementation of the related models and patterns in Arabic texts and literature.
Arabic Language and Literature
Ali Bashiri
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, , Pages 1-23
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Literary criticism is one of the main and most challenging fields of literature courses. The book titled: “Literary Criticism: Its foundation and Methods”, which was published at the end of the first part of the twentieth century, is one of the textbooks that is taught in Arabic Language ...
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Literary criticism is one of the main and most challenging fields of literature courses. The book titled: “Literary Criticism: Its foundation and Methods”, which was published at the end of the first part of the twentieth century, is one of the textbooks that is taught in Arabic Language and Literature. The present study aims at providing a critical vision for the reader by analyzing the concepts and approaches discussed in the book. At first, it is attempted to discuss the points belong to the superstructure. Thereafter, the author’s statements are studied according to the order of the book organization. So, the foundation and concepts of literary criticism, literary types, and the methods of literary criticism will be considered. The results of this study indicate that most of the concepts and perspectives presented by the author, in contrary to his own claim; i.e., originality, do have roots in western ideas and the trace of western intellectuals and critics is observable in this work.
Arabic Language and Literature
Sayyed Mohammad Reza l Ibnorrasoo; Elahe Safian
Volume 17, Issue 1 , March 2017, , Pages 1-22
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The first press of "Arabic Morphology & Syntax 1 - 2" - which is written by Abbas Mahyar - has been edited by "The Center for Studying and Compiling University Books in Humanities" (SAMT) in 1385 (2006) as a main book of Arabic Morphology & Syntax 1 – 2 lessons for students of Persian Literature ...
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The first press of "Arabic Morphology & Syntax 1 - 2" - which is written by Abbas Mahyar - has been edited by "The Center for Studying and Compiling University Books in Humanities" (SAMT) in 1385 (2006) as a main book of Arabic Morphology & Syntax 1 – 2 lessons for students of Persian Literature in B.A which is considered as an eight-unit course , and it has been republished twice since then.The authors in the present paper aimed to analyze and criticize the Morphology chapter of this book from several viewpoints, such as the conformity of the book subjects with approved topics by Planning Higher Council, the correctness or inaccuracy of the explanation and examples given for the grammatical concepts, attention or inattention to importance, necessity, and the use of presented grammars for the students of Persian Literature, correcting the word & phrases pronunciation in the text and exercises, as well as the typographic mistakesthat cannot be ignored.
Arabic Language and Literature
Ali piranishal
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, , Pages 23-40
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The book on rhetoricians’ effects in Nahj-ul-Balaghah by Dr. Mohammad Khaghani is a valuable book from two points of view: First, because of author’s good authority in review and analysis of various topics in Rhetoric in valuable work of Nahj-ul- Balaghah. Second, because of author’s ...
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The book on rhetoricians’ effects in Nahj-ul-Balaghah by Dr. Mohammad Khaghani is a valuable book from two points of view: First, because of author’s good authority in review and analysis of various topics in Rhetoric in valuable work of Nahj-ul- Balaghah. Second, because of author’s worthy of praise effort in collecting of this book and providing personal opinion on some issues, but with overcoming on some shortcomings of this work and with doing some modifications in edition or content, it can increase the value of this work. Therefore, this paper is trying to help to fix the flaws of this book with presenting some comments and corrections.
Arabic Language and Literature
Sajad Esmaili
Volume 17, Issue 1 , March 2017, , Pages 23-45
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The present study tries to evaluate and pinpoint the structural and content weaknesses and strengths of the book, entitled (Talim Alloghatol Arabiya Lennateghina Begheyreha), authored by Ali Ahmad Madkoor and Iman Ahmad Haridi. To do so, first, the standard criteria for writing an educational book are ...
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The present study tries to evaluate and pinpoint the structural and content weaknesses and strengths of the book, entitled (Talim Alloghatol Arabiya Lennateghina Begheyreha), authored by Ali Ahmad Madkoor and Iman Ahmad Haridi. To do so, first, the standard criteria for writing an educational book are introduced, then the extent to which this book has benefited from those criteria is evaluated using the content analysis approach. Some results of the study show that the book does not satisfy 59 main criteria, satisfies 39 and meets only 6 criteria partially. Besides, the topic of the book reveals that it contains both theoretical and practical issues related to teaching Arabic language to non-Arab language learners. The analysis of the introduction part indicatrs that the book does not clarify the significance of the book nor does it review the similar books in the area of the topic.
Arabic Language and Literature
Maryam Jalaei
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, , Pages 41-54
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Literature is a set of texts that has a lot of proponents in the field of foreign language training such as Arabic; considering unique nature and characteristics of the literature, one should clearly differentiate between training of literature and other educational contexts of the language.‘Modern ...
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Literature is a set of texts that has a lot of proponents in the field of foreign language training such as Arabic; considering unique nature and characteristics of the literature, one should clearly differentiate between training of literature and other educational contexts of the language.‘Modern Arabic Poetry: Schools and Anthology’ by Dr. Sadeq Khorsha is one of the instructive resources of Arabic current literature at Iran universities. Since, Persian speakers are addressees of these kinds of books and Arabic language is a foreign, not a native, language, it is better that composing and training in this field are performed according to principles of applied linguistics. Accordingly, the present study investigate and criticize the book based on principles of the science in the field of training literature to the foreign language learners by descriptive-analytic method.
Arabic Language and Literature
abu al-hasan amin moghadecci; moosa bayat; abdo al- vahid navidi
Volume 17, Issue 1 , March 2017, , Pages 47-60
Abstract
Academic books, along with other elements of higher education, are considered important tools toeducate students and prepare them to enter the society. So, the preparation of a book to be able to fulfil this aim seems necessary. Analyzing the academic books based on the standard features can help us ...
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Academic books, along with other elements of higher education, are considered important tools toeducate students and prepare them to enter the society. So, the preparation of a book to be able to fulfil this aim seems necessary. Analyzing the academic books based on the standard features can help us accomplish such an important aim which constitutes the pillars of higher education. This article seeks to examine the Qur'an based on structural, linguistic, content and form characteristics. Moreover, it tries to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the book academic on the history of Arabic literature. The main results indicate that the apparent features such as artwork, page design and highlighs in writing are not taken into account. The language of book is scientific, eloquent, without any ambiguity. The rules of grammar and Rhetoric have been fully observed. Proportionality between the amount of information and details of the book as a whole has not been met, but this has been considered in the context of the chapter. The book in question is not comprehensive and updated enough, and it has not been able to communicate well with other books at its level .Its writing style is not based on the academic criteria.
Arabic Language and Literature
Maryam Jalaei
Volume 17, Issue 1 , March 2017, , Pages 61-72
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The book of ‘instruction of Arabic language by functional approach’ by “Davood Abdeh” is one of the rare and vanguard compilations in the field of Arabic language instruction with the functional approach in Arabic world. Hence, the present study introduces the book in the descriptive-analytic ...
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The book of ‘instruction of Arabic language by functional approach’ by “Davood Abdeh” is one of the rare and vanguard compilations in the field of Arabic language instruction with the functional approach in Arabic world. Hence, the present study introduces the book in the descriptive-analytic method and criticizes it according to the principles of functional approach. Accordingly, after a short introduction about its bases, positive and negative points of the book are reviewed. Using an eloquent and a simple language, the book is like a base for familiarizing instruction system of Arabian countries with functional approach in language instruction; However, this has caused some deficiencies in different parts of the book, the most important of which is the absence of psychological, linguistic, and social functions in the approach. Furthermore, there is no guideline for functional approach in instruction of some language skills.
Arabic Language and Literature
leila Jamshid
Volume 17, Issue 1 , March 2017, , Pages 73-95
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Review and criticism of studies that deal with the lives of literary figures and their influence on literature as one of the most important branches of human civilization are of high prominence especially when they play important roles in the advancement of educational goals.Such criticisms ...
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Review and criticism of studies that deal with the lives of literary figures and their influence on literature as one of the most important branches of human civilization are of high prominence especially when they play important roles in the advancement of educational goals.Such criticisms regardless of whether they cause adornment and acceptance of such works pave the ways for applied studies.Among these works, the book of '' Lord of the Poetry in Abbasia Period'' iss a work that the author has attempted by choosing the elect of Abbasia period poets and their poetic characteristics. Poetry of this period is one of the brightest Arabic literature periods.The present study aims to introduce the position and goal of this book after an introduction about the importance of criticism and analysis of literary books and present its content and structural criticism. Since the author has written this book with the aim of pushing enthusiasts of literature which is consistent with some training techniques, it seems that after removing shortcomings and review of this book, it would have optimal performance as a teaching source in M.A courses
Arabic Language and Literature
Mahin Hajizadeh
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, , Pages 81-103
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In the present era, related discussions to Semantics have extended so largely and much deeper, and the relevant scholars have introduced various theories and issues in this field. Linguistics knowledge, especially Semantics, has emerged as an independent science. Ahmed Mukhtar Omar is one of those ...
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In the present era, related discussions to Semantics have extended so largely and much deeper, and the relevant scholars have introduced various theories and issues in this field. Linguistics knowledge, especially Semantics, has emerged as an independent science. Ahmed Mukhtar Omar is one of those scientists that introduced Semantic theories by writing the book of “Semantics”. This work has been translated into Persian by Seyyed Hossein Seyyedi. The author of this paper has tried to study this book through analysis and criticism, and to consider its strong and weak points. At first, the source text has been studied briefly and then the translation is criticized. It is concluded that this book can only be used as a subsidiary textbook for Philology, Etymology, Applied Linguistics, and Translation courses, but it cannot be regarded as a complete textbook.
Arabic Language and Literature
Zahra Khosravi
Volume 17, Issue 1 , March 2017, , Pages 97-114
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The present article reviews and criticizes the Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī's book and his modern perspectives on literary criticism, translated by Maryam Mosharraf. Having the subject comparative linguistics, the book addresses some views of Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī, a Muslim scholar of the fifth century ...
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The present article reviews and criticizes the Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī's book and his modern perspectives on literary criticism, translated by Maryam Mosharraf. Having the subject comparative linguistics, the book addresses some views of Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī, a Muslim scholar of the fifth century AH, and his linguistic perspectives are compared with the views of some contemporary Western linguists, such as Saussure, the leader of the Structuralism School, and Chomsky, the pioneer of the generative-transformational approach, and John Lyon. The present article first deals with the issue in the works of the great Muslim scholars, and then in the other part analyzes the translation of Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī 's book and his modern views on literary criticism. These contents fall into two parts: form and structure analysis and content analysis.
Arabic Language and Literature
Yadollah Rafiei
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, , Pages 105-122
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The Book “Dewdrop and the Echo of Breeze” is relatively a complete review of rules of Arabic Language, especially Syntax, and Abd Allah ibn Yusuf ibn Hisham known as Ibn Hisham Ansari (1308-1360 AD) wrote it in the eighth century AH. And Various descriptions have been written on it so far. ...
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The Book “Dewdrop and the Echo of Breeze” is relatively a complete review of rules of Arabic Language, especially Syntax, and Abd Allah ibn Yusuf ibn Hisham known as Ibn Hisham Ansari (1308-1360 AD) wrote it in the eighth century AH. And Various descriptions have been written on it so far. This book has always been one of the main teaching sources in the Seminary and the University. This indicates the importance of this book in learning the rules of Arabic Language. Therefore, the author of this paper decided to make a content analysis of it, and besides regarding its advantages and disadvantages, evaluate its deficiencies by using the instructions of the rules of Arabic Language in the Lexicon and Syntax books. This book, like all human works, has some shortcomings, too. The results show that despite the miscellaneous advantages of this book, it also has some ambiguities that have made its learning difficult for the students. The author proposes to describe and translate it into Persian. So, he undergoes this responsibility and it will be finished in near future.
Arabic Language and Literature
farhad Rajabi
Volume 17, Issue 1 , March 2017, , Pages 115-135
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From the very beginning, the study of scholars, poets, and writers’ lives and keeping written records of their literary works and commentaries were considered the first steps towards literary historiography. This movement has developed from the traditional biography writing into modern scientific ...
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From the very beginning, the study of scholars, poets, and writers’ lives and keeping written records of their literary works and commentaries were considered the first steps towards literary historiography. This movement has developed from the traditional biography writing into modern scientific literary history. Arabic which inherits a modern literature has benefitted from some seminal historiographers who undoubtedly keep a lot of new literary findings in their works.Al-jame fi Tarikhe Al-adabe Al-arabial-hadis is one of the recent loops of Arabic literary historiography circle whose author, Hana Al-fakhuri, has attempted to tender a worthy history by using modern theories. In spite of having some good points, the number of problems and shortcomings has pushed this book away from the scientific criteria of literary history writing and made it close to the traditional works. Because of this important reason, the main objective of this article is to study the pathology of this book from a critical point of view within a descriptive-analytical framework.
Arabic Language and Literature
SeyedAbolfazl sajadi
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, , Pages 123-135
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The book “Al-nahw Al-asri”(Contemporary Syntax) is a new book on the rules of Syntax and Morphology which according to its author, the method of discussion in this book is new and intelligible, and it is easy to apply. In this book, the Syntax and Morphology of the Arabic Language have ...
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The book “Al-nahw Al-asri”(Contemporary Syntax) is a new book on the rules of Syntax and Morphology which according to its author, the method of discussion in this book is new and intelligible, and it is easy to apply. In this book, the Syntax and Morphology of the Arabic Language have been studies entirely, the advantages and disadvantages of the methodology of compilations in the Arabic Syntax have collected, and all the subjects in the Arabic Syntax and Morphology and all their styles have been studied. The book “Contemporary Syntax” is almost comprehensive; however, it lacks References, Verses and Narrations, etc. It has a relatively appropriate teaching method, but since learning the syntactic and morphological rules needs repetition and practice, the lack of practices in this book is one of its disadvantages. Because the presented issues in this book are simple, it is a suitable book for intermediate levels. With respect to some scientific errors in the book, it cannot be regarded as a source for Syntax and Morphology, or as a specialized source. This article tries to evaluate the scientific level of the book, its teaching methods, the extent of author’s accomplishment in describing, explaining, and teaching the rules of Arabic Language through its analysis.
Arabic Language and Literature
Ali Saeidavi
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, , Pages 137-158
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Abstract The book Assas al-Loghat al-Arabyya (Foundations of Arabic Language or Arabic Linguistics) is among outstanding works of Muhammad Fahmi Hejazi written about Arabic linguistics. The translation of this book into Persian seems necessary for Arabic Language and Literature. Therefore, the translation ...
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Abstract The book Assas al-Loghat al-Arabyya (Foundations of Arabic Language or Arabic Linguistics) is among outstanding works of Muhammad Fahmi Hejazi written about Arabic linguistics. The translation of this book into Persian seems necessary for Arabic Language and Literature. Therefore, the translation of Seyyed Hassan Seyyedi is admirable, but in spite of his great efforts in this path, it seems that his translation has some errors. The present study investigated this translation at two lexical and sentence levels. At last it obtained the results that the translator has committed some errors in selecting equivalences for some of words and expressions. In addition, his radical commitment to the structure of Arabic syntax and also his insufficient knowledge of some theories and ideas of linguistics in translation such as collocation caused that his translation be vague and unclear in some cases.
Arabic Language and Literature
Mohsen Seifi; Bahare Samadi
Volume 17, Issue 1 , March 2017, , Pages 137-152
Abstract
The book “the History of Arabic Literature in Hadith Era” written by Nader Nizam Tehrani is about the history of Arab contemporary literature. In this book, by considering contemporary literary events and movements and also pointing to the poets of the era, the author tries to present an ...
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The book “the History of Arabic Literature in Hadith Era” written by Nader Nizam Tehrani is about the history of Arab contemporary literature. In this book, by considering contemporary literary events and movements and also pointing to the poets of the era, the author tries to present an overall picture of Arab literary life. The study of the book shows that like other written works, this book cannot be considered the best of its kind and has some deficiencies which should be resolved in the next editions. In this article, by considering different dimensions of the work, taking an impartial approach and applying logical principles necessary for a scientific critique, the author tries to see to what extent the original writer (of the book) had adhered to the scientific standards of writing, and how he has used them to realize pedagogical goals. Furthermore, by evaluating the book as a pedagogical resource, the author of the article will determine to what extent it holds the features of a technical and specialized work.
Arabic Language and Literature
Sadeq askari
Volume 17, Issue 1 , March 2017, , Pages 153-176
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This article presents a brief commentary on the book Afaq Al-She'r al-Arabi fi Al-Asr al-Mamlouki, written by a renowned Lebanese author Yassin Al-Ayyubi. Accordingly, after a general introduction of the work, the result of the review and criticism comes in two discussions of form and content. ...
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This article presents a brief commentary on the book Afaq Al-She'r al-Arabi fi Al-Asr al-Mamlouki, written by a renowned Lebanese author Yassin Al-Ayyubi. Accordingly, after a general introduction of the work, the result of the review and criticism comes in two discussions of form and content. The results of this review indicate that along with strengths such as proper bookbinding, precise layout and typography, complying with the writing and editing rules, multiple attachments and profiles, appropriate arrangement of the triple chapters, and using numerous and valid references, this book has deficiencies in terms of form and content, the most important of which include: using lexical obscure and ambiguous words, confusion in referencing and the arrangement of references, the broad and repetitive subject of the book, the lack of a methodical introduction and ending to some parts and many chapters, the incomplete arrangement of some chapters, and thus the similarity and even the overlap of the themes of some chapters, using common and cliché titles for the chapters, exaggeration in defending Arabic poetry and literature in the Mamlouki era, and unscientific compliment and praise, some ethnic and religious orientations and biases, lack or weakness of analysis and criticism due to relying on the collection of content from multiple references, and weakness of science innovation and production.
Arabic Language and Literature
Mohammad Reza Azizipour
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, , Pages 159-181
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Translation Criticism[WU1] : “The Arabic Textbook for Teaching Translation of Books and Newspaper”[1]The study and criticism of the scientific works lead to the recognition of their characteristics and disadvantages; therefore, it results in avoiding shortcomings and emphasizing on ...
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Translation Criticism[WU1] : “The Arabic Textbook for Teaching Translation of Books and Newspaper”[1]The study and criticism of the scientific works lead to the recognition of their characteristics and disadvantages; therefore, it results in avoiding shortcomings and emphasizing on the strong points. Undoubtedly, this will cause to improve the quality of the academic textbooks when the criticism is done clearly and constructively. Accordingly, and based on the request of the Iranian Council for Reviewing Books and Text on Human Sciences, the book titled: “The Arabic Textbook for Teaching Translation of Books and Newspaper” written by Adnan Tahmasebi has been criticized. The results of this study state that this book has some advantages and some disadvantages as well which are studied in the form and content. The advantages include preface, list of content, reliable resources, appropriate equivalences for some political and sport expressions, accuracy and fluency of the translation except in some cases which are discussed in detail. The lack of careful subject division, the shortage of suitable practices, none of notation, typing mistakes, hastiness, and lack of edition are the disadvantages of this book which result in many deficiencies in non-compatibility of the Persian Translation with the Arabic text. Finally, some suggestions are presented for the improvement of this work.[1] “Derâsat manhajiyye fi tarjomate al-sohof wa al-majallât”
Arabic Language and Literature
Alireza Kahe
Volume 17, Issue 1 , March 2017, , Pages 177-191
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Understanding the formation and the stages of progress of Arabic fiction literature and the factors affecting its progress requires detailed and comprehensive research, as its geographical and historical and thematic broadness makes its realization difficult. Therefore, each of the various books ...
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Understanding the formation and the stages of progress of Arabic fiction literature and the factors affecting its progress requires detailed and comprehensive research, as its geographical and historical and thematic broadness makes its realization difficult. Therefore, each of the various books written on the subject has met part of the researchers' needs. In the meantime, it is necessary to mention different approaches to criticism in the researchers' analysis, because each of them has sought to adapt his approach in his analysis. Evaluating the al-Revayah al-Arabiah book written by Roger Allen indicated that the author used a historical-criticism approach in editing the book. The political and social situation of Arab countries in the twentieth century was first investigated, and then by presenting fictional examples the author attempted to explain the reading of these texts of situations. The challenge that faces the book is failure to follow a systematic approach in text analysis, which has made this book only partially responsive to the needs of scholars in the field of Arabic novel and therefore it cannot be introduced as a complete reference.
Arabic Language and Literature
Issa Mottaqizadeh; Sajad Esmaili; Mohammadrahim khallizadeh; Davood ikdery
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, , Pages 183-200
Abstract
Teaching language skills has been the most important concerns of education experts and programmers in the education system. Although teaching Arabic Language has many problems and shortcomings in Iran, these problems are most observed in teaching language skills and esp. in the course of the laboratory ...
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Teaching language skills has been the most important concerns of education experts and programmers in the education system. Although teaching Arabic Language has many problems and shortcomings in Iran, these problems are most observed in teaching language skills and esp. in the course of the laboratory of Arabic. This study is going to investigate teaching methods of the laboratory of Arabic Language in the undergraduate degree of the Arabic Language and Literature major through survey; besides, it tries to discover the amount of accomplishment of professors in teaching this course and in their amount of applying suitable criteria for teaching Laboratory course. The statistical population of the research consist of 10 expert professors in teaching language skills and 68 students of Arabic Language and Literature in Tehran University. The most important findings of the research indicated that in teaching the Laboratory course, the respected aims of the educational programmers have been accomplished. And there seem not any problems in using traditional teaching methods, monotonous subjects, and the lack of educational facilities and equipment.
