Letters and meanings. A gate to Arabic Language

2019 ◽  

Letters and meanings is a tool for achieving an A.1 level in Arabic (according to the Common European Framework). Its main goal is to familiarize students with reading and writing the Arabic language. It is aimed at English-speaking students in a learning environment with an instructor. The independent learner, however, will also find recommendations and strategies for study as well as diverse materials and resources which will allow him or her to get acquainted with the new system of written signs and sounds which he or she hopes to learn. Letters and meanings is presented like an Arabic book, to be read from right to left. If you choose to print it, be careful and bind it to the right in order to use it properly. The book begins with an introductory and theoretical unit about the Arabic language. It is divided into eight teaching units, plus one review unit, and concludes with an answer key to the exercises, classroom vocabulary, some brief notes on Arabic calligraphy, and two glossaries. All of this is accompanied by downloadable mp3 audio files.

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Abizar Abizar

Language is means that needs to be mastered well by the students as an academician to support their ability and success in the educational atmosphere. Arabic language as an International communication language has become a compulsory that have to be mastered especially by the university student of Ma’had Al-Jami’ah at Ar-Raniry State Islamic University (UIN Ar-Raniry). Apart from reading and writing, the most important aspect to master this language skill is using Arabic language in daily conversation orally. In this case, Ma’had Al-Jami’ah is the right place to apply the communication skill of Arabic Language. The aim of this research is to know the various programs of Ma’had Al-Jami’ah and its implementation as well as to know the learning result of the students of UIN Ar-Raniry whether before and after implementation of those various programs. The method used in this research was analysis descriptive. The researcher also used random sampling with 454 samples that consist of three batches. The instrument used in collecting data is direct observation, interview, documents analysis, and test. The finding of this research as follows: the implementation of those various program of Ma’had Al-Jami’ah UIN Ar-Raniry could increase the students’ ability in speaking and beneficial also very helpful for them to increase their ability in speaking. In addition, those programs have significant role in order to increase their ability in speaking, it was suited with their pre test and post test analyzed by the researcher. The students who passed in pre test was 63% and failed was 37%, while students who passed in post test was 88% and failed was 12%.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-139
Author(s):  
Umair Raees Uddin ◽  

Prof. Dr. Ihsan-ul-Haq was a prominent scholars of Arabic and Islamic studies who played a vital role in the promotion of Arabic language and literature and awaking of Muslim nation in in Pakistan. Dr. Ihsan was a great Islamic preacher, good writer, eloquent speaker, compassionate and exemplary teacher, an excellent researcher, good mentor and reformer as well. He always strived for the understanding of the Qur'an and the teaching of the Arabic language in Pakistan. He loved Arabic language very much. Listening, speaking, reading and writing Arabic was his favorite pastime. He edited various textbooks in Arabic to develop the expertise of the students in Arabic language. He was also a great admirer of Urdu language. His sermons, speeches, lectures, articles and scholarly writings published in Urdu language were very easy, simple and neat. He speaks in a common sense according to the mental level of the listener and the reader so that the right of communication can be exercised. In this study, I have viewed the impact of Arabic language in his literary services. I adopted the method of description, analytics and historical criticism which covers all the aspects.


2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jyotsna Vaid ◽  
Rebecca Rhodes ◽  
Sumeyra Tosun ◽  
Zohra Eslami

This research examined the influence of directional reading/writing habits on the representation of depth in a scene. Participants with English vs. Arabic language backgrounds were asked to represent an imagined scene containing two houses, a “near house” and a “far house.” Nearly all participants drew the near house larger than the far house and drew the near house before drawing the far house. However, significant group differences in spatial strategies and movement biases were noted. Whereas the majority of native English readers drew the near house on the left side of the page and the far house to the right of it, native Arabic readers showed a slight right bias in placement of the near house and tended to place the far house to the left of the near house. This effect of script direction characterized right-handed and left-handed users of each group. Taken together, the findings support a cultural account of asymmetries in representational drawing reflecting biases arising from prolonged experience in reading and writing in a particular direction.


Author(s):  
Anne Phillips

No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as property owners with the right to do as they wish with their bodies. Others do not use the language of property, but are similarly insistent on the rights of free individuals to decide for themselves whether to engage in commercial transactions for sex, reproduction, or organ sales. Drawing on analyses of rape, surrogacy, and markets in human organs, this book challenges notions of freedom based on ownership of our bodies and argues against the normalization of markets in bodily services and parts. The book explores the risks associated with metaphors of property and the reasons why the commodification of the body remains problematic. The book asks what is wrong with thinking of oneself as the owner of one's body? What is wrong with making our bodies available for rent or sale? What, if anything, is the difference between markets in sex, reproduction, or human body parts, and the other markets we commonly applaud? The book contends that body markets occupy the outer edges of a continuum that is, in some way, a feature of all labor markets. But it also emphasizes that we all have bodies, and considers the implications of this otherwise banal fact for equality. Bodies remind us of shared vulnerability, alerting us to the common experience of living as embodied beings in the same world. Examining the complex issue of body exceptionalism, the book demonstrates that treating the body as property makes human equality harder to comprehend.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
K Indira Priyadarshini ◽  
Karthik Raghupathy ◽  
K V Lokesh ◽  
B Venu Naidu

Ameloblastic fibroma is an uncommon mixed neoplasm of odontogenic origin with a relative frequency between 1.5 – 4.5%. It can occur either in the mandible or maxilla, but predominantly seen in the posterior region of the mandible. It occurs in the first two decades of life. Most of the times it is associated with tooth enclosure, causing a delay in eruption or altering the dental eruption sequence. The common clinical manifestation is a slow growing painless swelling and is detected during routine radiographic examination. There is controversy in the mode of treatment, whether conservative or aggressive. Here we reported a 38 year old male patient referred for evaluation of painless swelling on the right posterior region of the mandible associated with clinically missing 3rd molar. The lesion was completely enucleated under general anesthesia along with the extraction of impacted molar.


Author(s):  
Timothy Zick

This book examines the relational dynamics between the U.S. Constitution’s Free Speech Clause and other constitutional rights. The free speech guarantee has intersected with a variety of other constitutional rights. Those intersections have significantly influenced the recognition, scope, and meaning of rights ranging from freedom of the press to the Second Amendment right to bear arms. They have also influenced interpretation of the Free Speech Clause itself. Free speech principles and doctrines have facilitated the recognition and effective exercise of constitutional rights, including equal protection, the right to abortion, and the free exercise of religion. They have also provided mediating principles for constructive debates about constitutional rights. At the same time, in its interactions with other constitutional rights, the Free Speech Clause has also been a complicating force. It has dominated rights discourse and subordinated or supplanted free press, assembly, petition, and free exercise rights. Currently, courts and commentators are fashioning the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in the image of the Free Speech Clause. Borrowing the Free Speech Clause for this purpose may turn out to be detrimental for both rights. The book examines the common and distinctive dynamics that have brought free speech and other constitutional rights together. It assesses the products and consequences of these intersections, and draws important lessons from them about constitutional rights and constitutional liberty. Ultimately, the book defends a pluralistic conception of constitutional rights that seeks to leverage the power of the Free Speech Clause but also to tame its propensity to subordinate, supplant, and eclipse other constitutional rights.


Author(s):  
Cassandra L. Yacovazzi

By the 1840s, convent narratives gained more middle-class, respectable readers, moving away from descriptions of sex and sadism and focusing instead on convent schools and the education of young women. Popular works such as Protestant Girl in a French Nunnery described "tricks" used by nuns to convert female pupils and lure them into convents. Such literature warned that as neither wives nor mothers, nuns could not train the right kind of women for America. The focus on convent schools converged with the common or public school movement. At the same time, teaching became an acceptable occupation for women, prompting more women to seek opportunities for higher education. This chapter compares the approach to education among nuns and other female teachers alongside the caricatures of convent schools in anti-Catholic print culture. I seek to answer why convent schools faced such heightened animosity even as teaching became feminized.


Horizons ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-134
Author(s):  
Patrick T. McCormick

ABSTRACTMany oppose the mandatum as a threat to the academic freedom of Catholic scholars and the autonomy and credibility of Catholic universities. But the imposition of this juridical bond on working theologians is also in tension with Catholic Social Teaching on the rights and dignity of labor. Work is the labor necessary to earn our daily bread. But it is also the vocation by which we realize ourselves as persons and the profession through which we contribute to the common good. Thus, along with the right to a just wage and safe working conditions, Catholic Social Teaching defends workers' rights to a full partnership in the enterprise, and calls upon the church to be a model of participation and cooperation. The imposition of the mandatum fails to live up to this standard and threatens the jobs and vocations of theologians while undermining this profession's contribution to the church.


2020 ◽  
Vol 154 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S47-S48
Author(s):  
D Emechebe ◽  
M Alshal ◽  
T Rana ◽  
M Agaronov

Abstract Introduction/Objective Ectopic breast tissue (EBT) is a well-documented anomaly of the breast and commonly presents along the embryonic milk line extending between the axilla and groin. Reported incidence of accessory breast is 0.4–6% in females. Pathologies developing in an EBT are reported as a rare entity in the literature. Carcinoma is reported as the common pathology followed by inflammation and fibroadenoma Methods We present a case of 43-year- old female who presented with a painless mass in her right groin for the past year which gradually increased in size. CT abdomen pelvis with contrast showed a 2.2 x 3.0 x 4.4 cm superficial soft tissue mass in the right groin which was suspected to be a lymph node. Further investigation and histopathological report of biopsy showed ectopic breast tissue with admixed chronic inflammation and reactive changes.However, excision of the mass three months later showed showed proloferation of both glandular and stromal elements. Results The tissue from the biopsy was positive for GATA 3, mammoglobin, GCDFP and CD 10 and the histological features on excision was confirmatory of fibroadenoma. Conclusion In conclusion, when tumors or nodules are found along the mammary line, the presence of breast tissue should be considered during the investigation. It is clinically wise to evaluate and screen carefully cases of supernumerary breast for any pathology and for any associated urogenital anomalies such as supernumerary kidneys, polycystic kidneys and renal cell adenocaricnoma. In our case, patient had no associated urogenital anomalies and she is on follow up.


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