JOURNAL OF THE IRANIAN ASSOCIATION OF ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Year:2005 | Volume:2 | Issue:2|Papers Count:8

A language has four skills) i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing. If one concentrates on reading only, language learning process will be quite incomplete.In Iran teaching and learning Arabic) as a modern language and the major language of the Islamic culture and civilization, are very significant. In this article, four language skills, esp. the reading skill in teaching Arabic, have been scientifically studied.

Today, fiction is one of the most important literary genres. Fiction may also be classified in the short story, the novel, tale, fable, legend, etc. Among these subclasses the novel has a specific position. In the 19th cent the European and Arabic novels flourished a lot and the great novelists created outstanding novels. George Zeidan, the great Christian and Arab author, historian, and journalist, is one of these massive figures. He wrote many Islamic historical novels. In this way he created the first Arabic historical novels.In this article, it has been tried to survey his historical novels from the artistic and technical points of view. His novel, the "Heroine of Karbala" has been selected as a sample for this research.

For many years, and especially nowadays, much attention has been paid to Arabic literature from different perspectives in Iranian studies.Although there are many great Jordanian authors and poets, less attention has been paid to them in these studies. This research, therefore, has tried to introduce and survey Jordanian literary figures and works as has been done with Egyptian, Lebanese, and Syrian authors before. The researcher also focuses on the literary life and works of one of the great Jordanian poets, i.e. Yusuf Al-Azm, a poet of Quds. In this way, the Iranian reader will be able to perceive his literary resistance and activity against the various enemies of mankind, humanity, and peace.

It is quite essential to do various researches on comparative literature. There are many things in common in the Arabic and Persian literary grounds. Therefore, studying, for instance, the anecdotes can be very significant and may lead to important results. Through this sort of study one may find out the various ways of their lifestyles as well. In this way one many have a better understanding of their social life. Even today, studying the anecdotes of the world peoples may result in a better interaction.Since they belong to the oral literature, the meanings and themes of anecdotes along with their literary values, can have lots of historical, social, political, religious, etc. advantages concerning the peoples of the past periods.

The greatest mystery being present in the Ibn-Farid Khamriyeh is its true love for God and it makes one's soul really brilliant. All of the facts in the universe have been originated from this true love for God; from the beginning to the end of the world. Hence, in this article this mystery and true love have been thoroughly surveyed.

In this article, the researcher, first, considers the principles and factors of the formation of "Ashura Movement" and then surveys the impact of this movement on the Islamic Revolution of Iran.Based on the holy sayings of Imam Hossein (P.) which were effective in Imam Khomeini Movement, the modern Arabic poets talked about the emergence, formation, and victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran. Imam Khomeini (R.) could make the people well familiar with the present situations and conditions of the Iranian community.Based on Imam Hossein (P.) Ashura Movement, he led the Islamic Revolution quite well and caused the Revolution to be victorious.

The students of law should study 15 credits of fiqh and Usul texts which are all in Arabic. Hence they should study and know Arabic quite well. But they have only one credit of Arabic. Therefore teaching Arabic should be based on the students' educational requirements. Among four language skills, the reading skill should be emphasized on. Thus a modern and practical method of teaching reading should be considered. A practical method may have four characteristics, i.e. selection, grading, presentation, and repetition.

Describing is one of the most important elements of poetry. It is dependent on the fantasy image. While describing the nature, an image of beauty and aesthetics is drawn.In this article, it has been tried to survey the description of the nature done by these two poets comparatively. First, a brief account of these two poets has been put forward. Then their ways of imaging the nature through presenting some instances of their poems have been posed. A comparative study of their poems has been done as well.At the end, it should be said that although both of them were great figures in describing in their own national literature, in this article it has been tried to emphasize on their description of the nature.