Al Kitaab II

Lesson One

General Links:

-Arab Countries' WWW Sites

-Modern Standard Arabic Page

-ArabNet

-Al Murshid

-Maps of the Middle East

Ibn BatuTa:

-Medieval Sourcebook: Ibn Batuta's travels

The Mamluks:

The Sufis:

-Sufism

Damascus:

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Lesson Two

Ramadan:

-Ramadan food

The Copts:

The Marronites:

Ann Marie Schimmel:

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Lesson Three

The Ottoman Empire:

-Muhammad Ali

-History of the Ottoman Empire

-Ottoman Architecture

History of the Arabic press:

-The Arabic Newsstand

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Lesson Four

Of Arabic Literature and Thought:

-Al-Murshid

-Amina As-Sa'iid

-Suhair Al-Qalmaawiy

-Taha Hussein

-Ahmed Amiin

-Mustafa Kaamil

-History of Al-Azhar

Algeria and French Colonialism:

-Algeria: History, French colonization

The Imam Muhammad Abdu

-a picture of Muhammad Abdu

History of the Arabian Peninsula:

Mey Yimaani:

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Lesson Five

The 1919 Revolution:

Tawfiq al-Hakiim: People of the Cave:

- "The Wise Sage of Arabic Literature"

Shehrazad:

Suleyman Al-Hakeem:

Dar Alkutub Al-MaSriyya:

Daisy Al-Amir:

Lughat Ad-Daad:

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Lesson Six

Culture: Veiling:

-alHareem

-al-Hijaab

-muHajjaba

-an-niqaab

-qanoon alaHual al-shaKhsiyya

Sheikh:

sheikh

The Partition of Palestine:

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Huda Shaarawi:

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Anis Baaz:

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Lesson Seven

The Thousand and One Nights:

-history, editions of

-story of the trader and the genie

Gamaal Al-Gheitani:

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Lesson Eight

Islamic Monuments:

-Sabil-Kuttab of Abd el-Rahman Katkhuda

-Qait Bey Madrasa

Ibn Jubayr:

The History of Baghdad:

Syria:

-hms and aleppo

Al-Azhar:

-Al-Azhar

The Crusades, Salah Ad-Din, and the Ayyubids:

-Jerusalem and the Crusader and Ayyubid Period

-History of Al-Azhar: The Ayyubid Period

-Saladin and the Mamluk Sultanate

-nasr muhammad ben qalaun

-Medieval Lebanon :The Umayyads, the Abbasids, the Crusades, the Mamluks

The Berbers:

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Lesson Nine

Aamiyya and fusHa:

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History of the study of the Arabic language:

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-al-khaliil ben ahmad

-sibuway

-(p. 280) alaSma<i abu s<aid abd almalak

-kisaa>i abu alhassan ali ben hamza

The Bedouin:

-The Bedouin

Zajal:

-an example (arabic, then transliteration, then translation)

-an article on elegies and zajal

The Ancient Greeks and the Arabs:

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Academies of the Arabic Language:

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Lesson Ten

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