Academic Honesty
The University of Georgia seeks to promote and ensure academic honesty and personal
integrity among
students and other members of the University community. In keeping with the
University
Honor Code and
Academic Honesty Policy, each student is expected to do his/her own academic
work and to acknowledge
fully any assistance and/or any academic resource. All academic work must meet
the standards contained
in "A
Culture of Honesty." Each student is responsible to inform themselves
about those standards before
performing any academic work.
NOTE: These course
syllabi are general plans for the courses. Deviations announced to the class
by the instructor may by necessary.
ARAB 1001 Elementary Modern Standard Arabic I
(LING 1910)
Course Description
The foundational concepts of Modern Standard Arabic, including the alphabet,
diacritical marking, symbols, and rules of correct recitation. The basics of
Arabic syntax are also covered, including nominal and verbal sentences, pronouns,
particles and a descriptive overview of the linguistic constructs of noun, verb
and particle.
Prequisites: none
Additional requirements for Graduate Students: Acquire facility with some essential
Islamic texts in Arabic. Memorize 10 hadith
Course Objectives
This course is aimed at establishing a firm foundation in the Arabic alphabet
towards attaining fluency in reading vocalized Arabic texts; basic vocabulary
acquisition and initiation into essential Arabic syntax: including the nominal
phrase, the construct, and conjugation of the past and present tense verbs with
an emphasis on the use of the verbal sentence. An accent is be placed upon listening
comprehension and basic speaking skills, which will include in-class and language
laboratory experience with listening and dictation exercises.
Topical Outline
- Alphabet
- Nunation and the definite article
- Case
- Long and short vowel
- Detached pronouns
- Idafa: the construct
- Nominal sentence
- Verbal sentences
- Attached pronouns
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ARAB 1002 Elementary Modern Standard Arabic II
Course Description
This course will continue in building on the already acquired skills form ARAB
1001, towards the establishment of a firm foundation of basic sentence structures,
plurals, verb conjugations: including the perfect and imperfect and the idafa
conctruct and other variations of the nominal sentence. There will be added
stress placed upon the acquisition of practical vocabulary, that is relevant
to day to day life in the Arabic -speaking world. An accent will also be placed
upon listening-comprehension and basic speaking and readilng skills that will
include in-class dialogues, listening exercises and regular dictations.
Prequisites: none
Additional requirements for Graduate Students: Acquire facility with some essential
Islamic texts in Arabic. Memorize 10 hadith
Course Objectives
Mastery of basic sentence structures, plurals, verb conjugations: including
the present and its two forms the jussive and the subjunctive. Vocabulary development
and reading and speaking skills are also key elements of this course.
Topical Outline
- The Present Tense
- The Jussive
- The Imperative
- The Subjunctive
- Verb-Subject agreement
- Verbs with two objects
- Particles and Nominalizers
- Numerals and counting
- Demonstratives
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ARAB 2003 Intermediate Standard Arabic I
Course Description
This course will continue in building on the already acquired skills form ARAB
1002, towards the establishment of a firm foundation of basic sentence structures,
plurals, verb conjugations: including the present and its two forms the jussive
and the subjunctive. There will be added stress placed upon the acquisition
of practical vocabulary, that is relevant to day to day life in the Arabic -speaking
world. An accent will also be placed upon listening-comprehension and basic
speaking skills that will include in-class dialogues, listening exercises, reading
of texts and regular dictations.
Prequisites: none
Additional requirements for Graduate Students: Acquire facility with some essential
Islamic texts in Arabic. Memorize 10 hadith
Course Objectives
Mastery of basic sentence structures, plurals, verb conjugations: including
the present and its two forms the jussive and the subjunctive. Vocabulary development
and reading and speaking skills are also key elements of this course.
Topical Outline
- The Present Tense
- The Jussive
- The Imperative
- The Subjunctive
- Verb-Subject agreement
- Verbs with two objects
- Particles and Nominalizers
- The Dual
- Verbal Nouns
- Telling time
- Adverbials of Time
- Forms II to V
- Human Collectives
- Future
- Cardinal and Ordinal numbers 20-99
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ARAB
2004 Intermediate Standard Arabic II
Course Description
This course will continue in building on the already acquired skills form ARAB
2003, towards the establishment of a firm foundation of basic sentence structures,
plurals, verb conjugations through Forms II to X, verbal nouns and relative
pronouns. There will be continuted stress placed upon the acquisition of practical
vocabulary, that is relevant to day to day life in the Arabic -speaking world.
An accent will also be placed upon listening-comprehension and the study of
texts that are media oriented, the course will also include in-class dialogues,
listening exercises and regular dictations.
Prerequisites: none
Additional requirements for graduate students: Acquire facility with some essential
Islamic texts in Arabic. Memorize 10 hadith
Course Objectives
Mastery of basic sentence structures, plurals, verb conjugations: including
the present and its two forms the jussive and the subjunctive, as well as Vocabulary
development and reading and speaking skills are also key elements of this course.
Topical
Outline
- Forms VII and VIII
- The Dual of nouns and adjevtives
- Counting from 99 to 10,000
- Nominalizers
- The Sisters of Kaana
- Particles and Nominalizers
- Adverbial use of the accusative
- Forms IX and X
- The Imperative and Indirect Commands
- Verbs of Beginning
- The Passive of the Perfect
- The Passive of the Imperfect
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RELI 1001 Introduction to Judaism, Christianity and
Islam
Course Description
A comparative and thematic study of the religious experience of the human community
as expressed in the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Emphasis will be on each tradition's view of:
(a) The basis of knowledge. (what can we rely on for knowing anything?)
(b) The nature of ultimate reality. (What is truly real? What is more real,
less real? How are these related?)
(c) The character of human life as understood in the light of that reality.
(Who are we?)
(d) The purpose of life. (What should we do?) and
(e) The way of life that leads to that attainment. (How can we do it?)
Prerequisites: none
Cross-Listings: offered through the UGA
Independent Study (USGIS)
Course Objectives
1) To gain understanding of the three monotheistic western traditions of Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam within a framework of the above themes.
2) To appreciate the richness and diversity as well as the commonalties of religious
life in these traditions.
3) To become aware of the need for religious dialogue in our contemporary world.
4) To gain an awareness of modernism and how it relates to the traditions of
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Topical Outline
I. Introduction
What is religion?
Religiology
The five areas of discourse in religion
II. Judaism
Meaning in God, creation, human existence, history, morality and justice
Messianism
The hallowing of life
Revelation and prophets
The Chosen People
Israel
Modern issues
III. Christianity
The historical Jesus
The Christ of faith
The end and the beginning
The good news
The mystical body of Christ
The mind of the Church
Roman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodox
Protestantism
IV. Islam
Background
The Seal of the Prophets
The migration that led to victory
The standing miracle
Basic theological concepts
The five pillars: shahada, prayer, zakat, fast of Ramadan and pilgrimage
Social teachings
Sufism
Islam today
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RELI 4304/6304 Koran: The Sacred Text of Islam
Course Description
A historical and thematic study of the sacred text of Islam, the Koran, which
shall include, the history of the text itself, its compilation and the stages
which led to its eventual printed form. There will also be an introduction to
basic technical terms of the Koranic sciences and the hernaneutics of the Koran.
The students will also be introduced to Arabic script and phonology.
Prerequisites: none
Additional requirements for graduate students: acquire facility with a voweled
Arabic text; memorize 3 short exerpts from the Koran; extra reading; research
paper
Course Objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce students to an in-depth understanding
of the essential themes of the Koran. This course differs from an introductory
course to Islam as well as "Islam in the Caliphal Age" in that it
concentrates on the text of the Koran itself and the major themes developed
therein. It deals as well with the history of the text itself and its development.
Topical Outline
I. Introduction
a. The Koran - linqustically
b. Textual history
c. Technical terms of the text
II. Themes
a. Epistemology
b. Ontology
c. Anthropology
d. Teleology
e. Methodology
III. Hermeneutics
a. Early schools of commentary
(1.) Mekka
(2.) Madina
b. Later schools of commentary
(1.) Rationalist commentaries
(2.) Compilations
3. Sufi commentaries
c. Modern schools of commentary
( 1.) Political commentary - The Islamic Brotherhood of Egypt
(2.) Scientific commentary
d. The Koran in translationa Part 1: Orientation and Introduction to th
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RELI 4305/6305 Muhammad: His Life and Legacy
Course Description
A historical and thematic study of the life of Mohammed, the founder of the
Islamic tradition. From his birth in 570 CE to his death in 633 CE. The course
will include: (1) an in-depth introduction to the genre of hadith and sira literature;
the major works, the history of its compilation and an evaluation of various
authors and their works, from the perspectives of both Islamic and Western scholarship;
(2) a biographical study of the life of Muhammad and the principles that Muslims
have gleaned from the example of his life; (3) an over view of the aspect of
veneration of Muhammad within the Sufi tradition of Islam.
Prerequisites: none
Additional requirements for Graduate Students: acquire facility with a voweled
Arabic text; memorize 3 short exerpts from the Koran; extra reading; research
paper
Course Objectives
Muhammad, His Life and Legacy has a twofold purpose. The first is to provide
the student with essential material on the life and legacy of Muhammad needed
by anyone involved in research in the Islamic World. The second goal is to is
to open a window for the student upon the "Muslim world view" of Muhammad
as the exemplar of the Islamic norm as perceived by Muslims themselves with
an aim towards increasing our understanding and appreciation of wealth and cultural
diversity of Islamic culture. It is also hoped that this view through the "window
of the Muslim world view" will provide the student with a window from which
to view his or her own world. Learn to use essential resources of Islamic Studies.
Topical Outline
I. Introduction
a. Sira source material
b. Islamic scholarship on Sira
c. Western scholarship on Sira
II. The Life of Muhammad
a. The Abrahamic Tradition
b. Mohammad, the early years
c. Meccan period
d. Medinian period
e. Muhammad, the legacy
III. Muhammad: his role in Islamic Spirituality
a. The Muhammadan Light
b. Sufi veneration
c. His Birthday Celebration
d. Muhammad as a role model
e. Muhammad as a Hero
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RELI 4307/6307 Islam and Islamic Culture in Morocco
Course Description
"Islam and Islamic Culture in Morocco" has a twofold purpose. The
first is to provide the student with a window unto the Islamic world through
a thorough introduction to a living example of Islam as it occurs in Moroccan
culture. The second goal is to present the material under consideration within
a coherent framework of essential spheres of belief. The epistemological, teleological
and methodological aspects of the Islam and Islamic Culture studied will permit
the student to perceive the various concepts presented within a cohesive culturally
meaningful whole. This vision will not only provide the student a window from
which to view the Islamic World but his own world as well.
Prerequisites: none
Additional requirements for Graduate Students: acquire facility with some essential
Islamic texts in Arabic; memorize 10 hadith; maintain a diary of the trip; research
paper
Course Objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce students to an in-depth understanding
of Islam and Islamic Culture. The course will present the student with a broad
view of the socio-religious and socio-political issues that are shaping the
Islamic world of today. The course will also deal with the central issue of
Islam and the West and the role of modernity within the context of one of the
world’s major religions.
Topical Outline
Part 1: Orientation and Introduction to the Islamic cultural world, Overview
- Marrakech: Where city and country meet - The Basin (al-Haouz)
- Brief overview of the history of Islam in Morocco, Colonial period until today
- Introduction to Religiology, comparative worldviews, Modernity. significance
of reactions to culture shock.
Part 2: In Depth Survey of the Core Islamic Worldview
- Epistemology: Sources of knowledge in Islam
- Ontology: Muslim beliefs about Reality, God, the Hereafter
- Anthropology : Muslim beliefs about the nature of humans and human relationships
in the world and afterlife
- Psychology : Muslim beliefs about the nature and faculties of consciousness
- Guided historical visit of the Old City and its monuments
- Teleology : the purpose of life in Islam
- Methodology of Islam
- Overview of Islamic institutions for implementing methodology: The Mosque,
madrasa, palace, qadi, home, souq (agriculture), bazaar (crafts/trade), fortified
city (jihad), zawiya (brotherhoods) and tomb.
Part 3: The Expression of Islam in Morocco
- The South of Morocco: Tamagrout, Dra Valley, Nasiri Zawiya
- brief road talks: Moroccan geography, agriculture, Berbers and Arabs.
- Sunnah, Zuhd, Genesis of Sufism and Sufi Orders
- Zawiya / Sufi Pedagogy and means of transmission / Sufi ritual, Saint’s
Tomb
- Tinmil fortified mosque in the High Atlas Mountains
- brief road talk on the Muwahhidine and Ibn Toumert
- Quran, a Moroccan Institution
- The Mosque: its Social and Religious roles
- Madrassa system of Morocco (rural and urban)
- Sufism in Morocco: Yesterday and Today
Part 4 :The Expression of Islam in Morocco
- Concert in the evening: Moroccan music
- Lecture : Fes: a city founded by a saint - delivered from the Merinide Tombs
- Doorways to Islamic Art
- FES: The Islamic City and Civil Society
- Andalusian influences in Morocco
- Lecture : Fatima Saddiqi : The Situation of Women in Morocco
- Traditional Crafts and Social Values
- Saint as Exemplar : Ibn Abbad, scholar and shaykh
- Worldly and spiritual travelling
- Saints of Marrakech : a pilgrimage to the Old City
- The bazaar, lifeblood of the Islamic City - guided tour of local crafts
- Classical Islamic Values and the Islamic City
- Summary : Islam, coherence and modernity
- Summary : Islam and Equilibrium
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