Description
This final textbook is for advanced learners who want to think, analyze, and argue in Arabic with confidence. It brings together sophisticated themes, higher rhetoric, critical writing, and independent learning.
After completing this textbook, learners will be able to:
- debate advanced topics such as religion and the state, Arabic prose and poetry, major Arabic books, mind and intellect, treaties and charters, fine arts, theories, and doctrines
- identify and evaluate an author’s point of view with strong supporting arguments
- understand authentic spoken texts intended for Arabic-speaking audiences
- explain, critique, and summarize major ideas orally and in writing
- practice advanced morphology, especially a wide range of plural patterns
- use advanced grammar such as oath structures, direct exclamation, condition, praise and dispraise, exception, incitement and warning, ellipsis, and verbal emphasis
- learn rhetorical concepts such as simile, explicit and implicit metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and verbal and semantic embellishment
- write for or against an opinion using connectors and patterns of support and refutation
- write short stories using rhetorical devices
- define terms and life values clearly
- produce summaries of books, historical events, and major figures
- analyze articles into their elements and reconstruct them
- deepen cultural knowledge related to literary symbols, Muslim thinkers and inventors, Yemeni legends, Arabic calligraphy, the four schools of law, and the Umari Covenant of Jerusalem
- continue advanced learning strategies through classical texts, tafsir and history extracts, full documentaries, poetry reading and recording, and translation in both directions.
