Arabic studies
The Arabic (Arabic Philology ) is the science of the Arabic language and Arabic literature . Arabic studies are part of oriental studies and closely related to Islamic studies . In German university policy, Arabic studies is classified as a minor subject .
The linguistic part deals with the various language levels of Arabic such as Old Arabic , Classical Standard Arabic , Middle Arabic , Modern Standard Arabic and its dialects .
As literary studies, Arabic studies researches Arabic poetry and prose literature from the pre-Islamic period to the present day and the religious, philosophical, historical and geographical literature of Islamic culture as well as Jewish and Christian literature in the Arabic language.
Universities with Arabic studies institutes in German-speaking countries
- Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg
- University of Bayreuth
- Free University of Berlin
- University of Bern
- Ruhr-University Bochum
- University of Bonn
- University of Erfurt
- Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
- Georg-August-University Goettingen
- Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
- University of Hamburg
- Heidelberg University
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- Christian Albrechts University in Kiel
- University of Cologne
- University of Leipzig
- Philipps University of Marburg
- Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
- Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
- University of Vienna
See also
- List of well-known Arabists
- The Ottoman is a branch of Oriental and refers to the science of the history and culture of the Ottoman Empire . It touches on the subjects of Islamic Studies , Turkic Studies, Arabic Studies, Iranian Studies , Byzantine Studies (including Judaic Studies ) and the history of Southeast Europe .
- Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft , magazine of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (since 1847), Morgenland
- German Orient Society (strongly archaeological)
- Bibliotheca arabico-hispana
Web links
Wiktionary: Arabic studies - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Link catalog on Arabic studies at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )