Madinah Islamic University: Arabic Course for English Speaking Students

Madinah Islamic University: Arabic Course for English Speaking Students Volumes 1, 2, 3

Originally devised and taught at Madinah Islamic University.ξThe ARABIC COURSE for English-speaking Students, is a comprehensive and popular course for the teaching of the Qur’anic and Traditional Arabic, originally devised and taught at the renowned Madinah Islamic University catering for the non-Arabic speaking students from all over the world. Over the years, this course has enabled students to become competent in their use of the Arabic language and to participate and benefit from scholarly pursuits such as Qur’anic exegesis, hadith, fiqh, sirah history and classical and modern Arabic literature.

It is concise (consisting of only three books reasonably short) but extensive in their coverage. It combines modern Arabic vocabulary with Islamic terminology as used in the Qur’an and Sunnah. It covers all the necessary Arabic grammatical rules in such a way that the student is spared the monotonous task of memorising them. It helps acquires an understanding of hundreds of Qur’anic verses, ahadith, Arabic parables and poetry. Dr Abdur-Rahim, obtained his doctorate in the Arabic language from Al-Azhar University, Cairo, and has taught it for more than four decades. He was, for a long time a principle lecturer of Arabic language to foreign students at Madinah Islamic University. He has combined the modern way of learning with the classical system, and applied the same style in this course in a living and vibrant language taking examples from Arabic in every day use, and also from the Qur’an and Hadith.