PRE-MODERN ARABIC LITERATURES AND WORKSHOP

Module MODULE B: PRE-MODERN ARABIC LITERATURES

According to the Dublin descriptors, at the end of the course students will demonstrate

1)Knowledge and understanding

The monographic literature course will focus on the literary production of Islamic Sicily and al-Andalus. The general part, on the other hand, will focus on the literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman periods, which is usually scarcely investigated. The activities that will be carried out on the texts included in the programme will broaden the students' knowledge and comprehension skills.  

2) Application of knowledge and understanding

The exercises devoted to the translation and examination of the texts included in the syllabus will enable students to refine their tools of critical evaluation and to apply their acquired knowledge of pre-modern Arabic literary and cultural history.

3) Judgment

The work of translating and analysing texts and reading critical essays in Arabic will enable students to hone interpretative skills, to make autonomous judgements and to establish, at different levels, comparative relationships within and outside Arabic cultural production.

4) Communicative skills

Exercises in sectoral languages (business Arabic), conversations in the Arabic language spoken in Egypt and in the Arabic language spoken in Morocco, as well as exposé in Modern Standard Arabic, will improve students' communicative skills in the milieu of Arabic linguistic variation.

5) Encouraging autonomy and self-management in study.

During the lessons, students will be led to develop a greater awareness of their own learning abilities, which will result in a more mature and autonomous critical approach to literary texts.   

Module A:

M. Cassarino, A. Ghersetti, L. Osti, S. Pagani, Antologia della letteratura araba dalle origini al XVIII secolo, Roma, Carocci, 2024 (pp. 123-146; 343-388; 455-504) 

A. Kilito, Fi jaw min al-nadam al-fikri, Manshurat al-Mutawassit, Milano 2020, 81 p.

Module B :

F. M. Corrao, M. Ruocco (a cura di), Letteratura araba dall’epoca preislamica all’età postclassica, Mondadori, Milano, I Vol. (Sulla Sicilia islamica : capp. 7, 8, 10 – pp. 154-158; 161-208; pp. 240-243. Sulla letteratura di epoca mamelucca e ottomana: capp. 14, 15, 16 - pp. 311-400.

I. Licitra, Il canzoniere di al-Ballanubi: studio, edizioni, traduzioni, IPO, Roma, 2020, 300 p.

Ibn Hamdis, Il Canzoniere, a cura di C. Schiaparelli (curato per la stampa da S.E Carnemolla, Sellerio, Palermo, 1998, 436 p.

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