GENERAL INFORMATION

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This unit of the Applied Arabic Studies Course will cover al-Ajurrumiya, the blessed and renowned manual of grammar, written by the Moroccan saint, Ibn Ajurrum.
This unit will introduce the building blocks of Arabic and provide a panoramic view of how Arabic works in speech and in written text. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to analyze Arabic texts and make sense of complex sentences

COURSE OUTLINE

Lesson 1: What is Arabic Grammar?

• Definition
• Subject
• Fruit
• Attribution
• Legal ruling
• Historical overview
• Definition of Arabic speech
• Signs of nouns, verbs, and particles
• Inflection (‘irab)
• Definition of ‘irab
• Types of states in Arabic

Lesson 2: Inflection (continued)

• The nominative state (rafa’) and its signs
• The accusative state (nasb) and its signs
• The genitive state (jarr/khafd) and its signs
• The jussive state and its signs

Lesson 3: (General review of all signs); Present, past, and command verbs

• Weak verbs
• Verb conjugation
• The accusative impactors (nawasib)
• The jussive impactors (jawazim)

Lesson 4: Nouns in the nominative state (marfu’at)

• The Doer (fa’il)
• Pronouns
• Passive verbs
• Subject and predicate
• Kana and its sisters
• Inna and its sisters
• Zanna and its sisters

 Lesson 5: Nouns in the nominative state (continued); Followers of the nominative state

• Definition of the Follower
• Adjective (sifat/na’t)
• Definite/indefinite nouns
• Conjunction (‘atf)
• Emphasis
• Replacement (badl)

Lesson 6: Nouns in the accusative state

• Object
• Verbal noun
• Circumstantial
• Vocative

Lesson 7: Nouns in the accusative case (continued); Nouns in the genitive case

• Exceptive
• Cognate accusative
• Adverbal qualification of purpose
• Distinction
• Ownership
• Conclusion

 COURSE PREREQUISITES

• Ability to read and write Arabic, use a dictionary, and prior exposure to the basic building blocks of Arabic

INSTRUCTOR

Abdul Aziz Pippin was born and raised in Georgia, where he first began his study of the Arabic language as a teenager. He pursued further studies in Yemen, Mauritania, and Morocco, focusing on Arabic grammar, rhetoric, and literature. Since 1998, he has been teaching Arabic in institutes and private schools, as well as translating on a freelance basis. In 2001, he founded the Salik Institute, a night school program in the Washington, DC area offering multi-layered and holistic Arabic courses for adults. In 2005 he began translating and editing full time for Halabi Publications in the Netherlands, with three titles already published and eight more forthcoming.

HOW TO REGISTER

To pre-register for the course please email: appliedarabic@risalah.ca

Spaces are limited and only on-time registrants will receive instructions on how to confirm registration.