Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Ali Bashiri
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, Pages 1-23
Abstract
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.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Ali piranishal
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, Pages 23-40
Abstract
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.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Maryam Jalaei
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, Pages 41-54
Abstract
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.
Research
Theology and religions
Ali Hajikhani; Nowrooz Amini
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, Pages 55-80
Abstract
One of the main criteria in the evaluation of the academic papers, either periodical or promoting, is the selection of the appropriate title. The masters of methodology of the scientific researches have introduced several criteria such as particularity, felicity, attraction, brevity, accuracy and ...
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One of the main criteria in the evaluation of the academic papers, either periodical or promoting, is the selection of the appropriate title. The masters of methodology of the scientific researches have introduced several criteria such as particularity, felicity, attraction, brevity, accuracy and novelty for the titles of the academic papers which are necessary to observe. In this article we try to find an answer to this question that how much the authors and the reviewers of the academic papers in religious studies observed these criteria for choosing the titles of their papers by using a combination of description, comparison, and critique of the titles of 86 papers from the Periodic Journal of Hadith Science as a sample for review and evaluation based on the mentioned criteria so that in this way, we will explain the correct method for choosing the titles of the academic papers in the field of religious studies while we consider the amount of the attention or neglect of the authors and the reviewers to these criteria.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Mahin Hajizadeh
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, Pages 81-103
Abstract
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.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Yadollah Rafiei
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, Pages 105-122
Abstract
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.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
SeyedAbolfazl sajadi
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, Pages 123-135
Abstract
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.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Ali Saeidavi
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, Pages 137-158
Abstract
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.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Mohammad Reza Azizipour
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, Pages 159-181
Abstract
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”
Research
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.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Danesh Mohammadi
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, Pages 201-216
Abstract
Curriculum planning in Teaching Arabic Language in Iran is very rare in comparison to it in Arabic countries. The book titled: “The Reference in Teaching Arabic to the Speakers of Other Languages” is one of the most important books in this field in the Arab World. In this article, it is tried ...
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Curriculum planning in Teaching Arabic Language in Iran is very rare in comparison to it in Arabic countries. The book titled: “The Reference in Teaching Arabic to the Speakers of Other Languages” is one of the most important books in this field in the Arab World. In this article, it is tried to study and criticize this book. So, the strong and weak points of this work will be explained through content analysis, and the discussed issues of the book will be compared with the English books in curriculum planning. The results of the research indicate that the approach of the authors of the book is cultural. In fact, they could provide the Islamic-Arabic framework for teaching Arabic Language to the speakers of other languages through localizing the Western theories and methods of curriculum planning. One of disadvantages of this book, according to its content analysis, is the lack of discussing and studying the main component of “Need Assessment” in the curriculum planning, and the lack of some essential issues such as the methods of teacher training, evaluation, and the improvement of their performance.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Alireza Nazari
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, Pages 217-233
Abstract
Although more than forty years have passed since the publication of the first Edition of this book, it is highly important among the Arabic books on Linguistics. Regarding the common titles among most of the books in this field, what fortifies the status of this work is its comprehensiveness and the ...
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Although more than forty years have passed since the publication of the first Edition of this book, it is highly important among the Arabic books on Linguistics. Regarding the common titles among most of the books in this field, what fortifies the status of this work is its comprehensiveness and the scientific analysis, and avoiding pure narration. Despite the fact that some other books had published after this book, they could not reach the position of this book written by Ramadan Abd Al-Tawwab. Hamidreza Sheikhi translated the book in 1988. By studying and criticizing his translation through total induction, expressional and structural comparison with the original work, the following results obtained: the Persian translation of the book, in spite of a lot of typing errors and some mistakes in understanding and transforming concepts, is generally an acceptable and reliable translation. Perhaps, the main point in this work is not translating the poetic evidence, but only in one chapter, and they left in their original forms. Maybe, the translator thought that mentioning these verses were just phonetic, morphological, or syntactic examples, and the author did not intend their conceptual and meaningful aspects. Actually, it is confirmed that the main audience of this work are Arabs or Arabic linguists, and the audience of the translation are non-Arab speakers.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Yusuf Nazari
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, Pages 235-256
Abstract
Teaching Arabic for specific purposes is one of its main challenges in Teaching Arabic Language in Iran. “Teaching Arabic Language” coauthored by Faramarz Mirzaei and Ali Nazari is a textbook developed for teaching Arabic to the students of Law. The close interconnection of some areas of ...
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Teaching Arabic for specific purposes is one of its main challenges in Teaching Arabic Language in Iran. “Teaching Arabic Language” coauthored by Faramarz Mirzaei and Ali Nazari is a textbook developed for teaching Arabic to the students of Law. The close interconnection of some areas of the field of Law with Arabic Language and the lack of diverse textbooks in this area have doubled the need for writing such works. In this article, the form and content of the book have been analyzed. In the form analysis, the book cover, typography, page layout, bookbinding, punctuations, and typing errors were examined. The content analysis bases on the conformation of contents with title, the logical order of the chapters and their discussions, the critique of the scientific content, the adequacy and fluency of the script, and the referencing. The prominent advantages of the book include the compilation of plentiful legal examples and practices, and its new arrangement to some extent. Yet, it is required that the authors revise the existing form and content shortcomings in the next editions of the book.
Research
Arabic Language and Literature
Maryam Hashemi
Volume 16, Issue 43 , March 2017, Pages 257-276
Abstract
The present article has been written with the aim of reviewing the book titled: “The Egypt Superiorities: Its Chronicles and Characteristics” by Ibn Zulaq on a scientific quest of Islamic-literary Historiography of the Fatimid civilization and the local history. This type of Islamic-literary ...
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The present article has been written with the aim of reviewing the book titled: “The Egypt Superiorities: Its Chronicles and Characteristics” by Ibn Zulaq on a scientific quest of Islamic-literary Historiography of the Fatimid civilization and the local history. This type of Islamic-literary Historiography with its rooted tradition and its specific originality has always been appreciated by Muslim historians, such as Ibn Zulaq. He wrote the local history of Egypt and his book became known as one of the original and orderly types of Islamic Historiography; that i. e., the local history of different cities of the Islamic world. This scientific work of Ibn Zulaq is a valuable effort and a long step in explaining the depth and transcendence of local Historiography of the Fatimids, and it is reviewed and evaluated by descriptive-analytic method. According to the results of this terse article, the factors of emergence of this type of Historiography from the viewpoint of Ibn Zulaq include patriotic motivation, its prominent position for him, and the personal interest of this local historian to record the historical events of his city and also the encouragement of local authorities. Moreover, the author benefited from historical-narrative approach and arrangement methods in the Islamic Historiography according to hadith-report method in reviewing the local history. The contents of the book are mostly presented in a chronological and cyclical classification.
