A. Medietekster
Som grunnbok brukes: Julia Ashtiany: Media Arabic, Edinburgh Univ. Press 2001 (1993)
Det leses utvalgte tekster fra denne + andre aktuelle medietekster.
B. Klassiske tekster
Det brukes tekster fra: Dickens and Watson: Standard Arabic - An advanced course. Cambridge Universtiy Press, 1998.
C. Moderne skj?nnlitter?re tekster (i kompendium)
Noveller:
Muhammad al-Murr: Li-madha darabat Fattum al-Ward jarata-ha,
Hanan al-Shaykh: Bint ismu-ha Tuffaha,
Al-Tayyib Salih: Hafnat tamr,
Yusuf Idris: Bayt min lahm, (fra A Reader of modern Arabic Short stories).
Zakariya Tamir: Shams saghira , (ibid.).
Dikt:
Mahmud Darwish: Matar naim fi kharif baid / Mildt regn en fjern h?st,
Nizar Qabbani: ma qimat al-shab alladi laysa lahu lisan?, (i An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry).
al-Sayyab: li- anni gharib, (i An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry).
Nazik al-Mala'ika: ana, (i An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry).
Studentene henvises til litteraturhistoriske verk, f.eks. Meisami and Starkey (eds): Encyclopedia of Arabic literature og Cambridge History of Literature, samt enkeltartikler, for bakgrunnsstoff om forfattere og litter?re genre.
D. Kulturelle tekster (i kompendium)
- Koran: Sure 1 (al-Fathiha); 2:255 (Ayat al-Kursi); 2:284-286 (end of al-Baqara); 24:35 (Ayat al-Nur); 97 (al-Qadr); 112 (al-Ikhlas); 114 (al-Nas)
- The Five Pillars of Islam
- Ritual Prayer, incl. The Call to Prayer
- Hadith: from al-Nawawi's 40 Hadith, nr.s.1-2
- Sabah Fakhri: Qadduka 'l-Mayyas
- Abdel Halim Hafez: Qari'at al-Fingan
- Fairouz: Zahrat al-Mada'in
- Fairouz: A'tini al-Nay wa-ghanni
- Umm Kulthum: al-Atlal
- Various short musical extracts
- Matrimonials
- World Union of Muslim Scholars: Rule on Abductions and the Taking of Hostages
Additional Reading on the Qur'an
G. K. Meruerian and A. Najmabadi, "Zulaykha and Yusuf, whose 'best story'?", International Journal of Middle East Studies 29, 1997, 485-508
M. Mir, "The Qur'anic Story of Joseph, Plot, themes and characters, Muslim World 76, 1986, 1-15
A. M. Walker and M. A. Sells, "The wiles of women and performative intertextuality: A'isha, the Hadith of the slander and the sura of Joseph", Journal of Arabic Literature 30, 1999, 55-77
More will follow as soon as I get used to the system!