scholarly journals Perceptions of Children's Literature in the Writings of Sheikh Abi Al-Hassan Ali Al-Nadwi

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 144-165
Author(s):  
PM. Hamthoon
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Literary Achievement ◽  
Arab Schools ◽  
Indian Lands

India is one of the most famous non-Arab countries in the world where the Arabic language and Arabic literature has grown, developed and flourished on a large scale. During the period of Arab rule in the Indian lands, Arabic was an official language of government and a means of learning about Arab-Islamic heritage and literary achievement. Moreover, many Arab schools and cultural institutions of higher education were established that produced a large number of poets, writers, Islamic thinkers, and interpreters of the Qur’an and Hadees scholars. Among those great writers was Allama Abul-Hassan Ali Al-Hasani Al-Nadawi, who was an outstanding imam whom the twentieth century saw and one of the great personalities of India, served Islam and Muslims. This study concerns the problem of Arabic teachers in Sri Lanka and India, who do not follow an appropriate methodology for teaching Arabic children and tries to make sure that children’s literature writers take into account the psychology of children in their compositions. To achieve these goals, the researcher has followed the descriptive and analytical approach to complete this study and reach the required results. This study concluded that Allama Abul-Hasan Ali al-Hasani al-Nadawi, may God have mercy on him, had a huge role in contemporary Arabic literature. Especially in children's literature, where he showed his value theory while following wonderful methods in his literacy works, concerning the psychology of children and their childhood, which helps students to read and understand through a very easy way.

Literary Dynamics in Synchronic Cross-section

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reuven Snir
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Autonomous Networks ◽  
Modern Arabic ◽  
Literary System ◽  
Literary Networks

This chapter looks at the literary dynamics of Arabic literature in synchronic cross-section. Inventories of canonized and non-canonized literary texts are presented separately in three subsystems: texts for adults, children’s literature, and texts in translation. The resulting six subsystems ― three canonized and three non-canonized ― are seen as autonomous networks of relationships and as interacting literary networks on various levels. The internal and external interrelationships and interactions between the various subsystems need to be studied if we want to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the modern Arabic literary system. The structure of the canonical center of the Arabic literary system is discussed referring to the phenomenon of Islamist literature and the reasons for its exclusion from the secular literary center.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reuven Snir
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Russian Formalism ◽  
System P ◽  
Literary System

The Introduction explains why the need for a new theoretical framework for the study of Arabic literature is so urgent. Its main outlines are based on the theoretical achievements of historical poetics, in particular those of Russian Formalism and its theoretical legacy. The basic assumption is that all potential inventories of canonized and non-canonized Arabic literary texts ― including children’s literature and translated texts ― are to be seen as forming one dynamic, autonomous literary system.

Children's Literature as a Front in the War on Terror: Ineffective Policy, Ineffective Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-66
Author(s):  
Sara Austin ◽  
Ann Marie Wainscott
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Young Men ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Moroccan Children ◽  
Ineffective Policy

Morocco is often praised for its proactive and innovative CVE (countering violent extremism) programme. This article analyses a three-part Arabic-language book series, Maʿ Naṣir wa Basma [With Nasir and Basma], produced by an organ of the Moroccan religious bureaucracy, the Mohammedan League of Religious Scholars, that ostensibly seeks to discourage adolescents from being susceptible to recruitment to VE (violent extremist) organisations. Starring two young Moroccan children, these books portray jihadists as old, ridiculous, or inept and the main characters as in need of protection by a paternalistic state, leaving children, especially young men, underprepared for the recruiting efforts of such organisations. The books emphasise state intervention over child action, suggesting the books are directed more at Western investors in need of reassurance than at children, supporting the critique made by some observers that CVE is more about security theatre than preventing violence.

When the Safras Met the Dajānīs

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 138-168
Author(s):  
Orit Bashkin
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Language ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
Diasporic Identities

This paper explores how readers can hear Arabic voices within Hebrew novels written by Jews who came to Israel from Arab countries or who were born in Israel to Arabic-speaking parents.1 I look at the ways in which the Arabic language itself, as well as Arabic literature and Islamic religious texts, are mediated in these novels. The inclusion of Arabic voices within the Hebrew texts, I argue, acts powerfully against national monolingualism and generates a new understanding of Arab-Jewish relations and of Mizrahi Diasporic identities.

Children’s literature in China: Revisiting ideologies of childhood and agency

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Tesar ◽  
Zhen Phoebe Tong ◽  
Andrew Gibbons ◽  
Sonja Arndt ◽  
Adrienne Sansom
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Child Agency ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
State Investment ◽  
Chinese Children’S Literature

In this article we consider historical and contemporary ideologies of childhood in China and critically examine notions of ‘child’ and ‘childhood’ in Chinese children’s literature. We analyse the themes and knowledge that relate to relevant historical and contemporary political events and policies, and how these contribute to the production of childhoods. We focus on three images of childhoods in China: the Confucian child, the Modern child and the Maoist child. Each of the images reflects a way of seeing, a perspective about what a child ought to be and become, and what their childhood should look like. Everyday media are reflected in the texts and stories examined and portray both ‘imagined’ and ‘real-life’ narratives of children and their childhoods. The stories, and the connected power relations, represent an important link between the politics of childhood and the pedagogy associated with these politics, including large-scale state investment in the production of desired, ideal and perfect childhoods. Through such an examination of contemporary and historical children’s literature and media in China we also explore the ways in which contemporary media revitalise particular notions of child agency.

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