Al-Azhar University

Branches and Departments of Study
&
Their Specializations

Article (1): The faculty consists of the following branches of study:

  1. Fundamentals of Religion (Usul-eddin)
  2. Islamic Sharia
  3. Arabic Language
  4. Sharia and Law (Now at Women’s Branch in Cairo)
  5. Journalism and Mass Communication (Now at Women’s Branch in Cairo)

Article (2) These branches comprise the following departments of study:
First: The Branch of the Fundamentals of Religion (Usul-eddin) comprises:

  1. Department of Interpretation and Qur'an Sciences
  2. Department of Hadith (The Prophet's traditions) and its Sciences
  3. Department of Creed and Philosophy

Second: The Branch of Islamic Sharia comprises:

  1. Department of Jurisprudence
  2. Department of the Fundamentals of Jurisprudence
  3. Department of Comparative Jurisprudence

Third: The Branch of Arabic Language comprises:

  1. Department of Linguistics
  2. Department of Literature and Criticism
  3. Department of Rhetoric and Criticism
  4. Department of the Fundamentals of Arabic Language

Fourth: The Branch of Sharia and Law comprises:

  1. Department of Public Law
  2. Department of Private Law

Fifth: The Branch of Journalism and Mass Communication comprises:

  1. Department of Journalism and Publication
  2. Department of Radio and Television
  3. Department of Public Relations and Publicity

Article (3) The specializations of departments of study:
First: The Branch of the Fundamentals of Religion:
1- Department of Interpretation and Qur'an Sciences teaches the following subjects: (Interpretation and Qur'an Sciences – Interpreters' Approaches – Alien Interpretation).

  1. Department of Hadith (The Prophet's traditions) and its Sciences teaches the following subjects: (Hadith' Idioms – Narrators' Science – exegesis – Analytic biography in the Qur'an and the Prophet's Traditions – Approaches of Transmitters (of Hadith)).
  2. Department of Creed and Philosophy teaches the following subjects: (Theology – Logic – Philosophy – Sufism – Ethics – Sects and Creeds – Contemporary Intellectual Trends).

Second: The Branch of Islamic Sharia:
1- Department of the Fundamentals of Jurisprudence teaches the following subjects: (The Fundamentals of Jurisprudence – The Effect of the Rules of Jurisprudence on the Jurisprudents' disagreement – The Aims of Legislation – History of Jurisprudence and an Analytic Study of one of the distinguished Jurisprudents).
2- Department of Comparative Jurisprudence teaches the following subjects: (Jurisprudence of the Qur'an - Jurisprudence of the Prophet's Traditions – Comparative Jurisprudence – History of Legislation – General Theories of Dealings in Islamic Jurisprudence).
3- Department of Jurisprudence teaches the following subjects: (Jurisprudence – Private Affairs of Muslims and others – General Rules of Jurisprudence – Analytic Study of the Schools of Jurisprudence – Bequests and Inheritance).

Third: The Branch of Arabic Language:
1- Department of Linguistics teaches the following subjects: (Grammar – etymology – Prosody and Rhyming – Linguistic Research – An Introduction to Grammar and its Fundamental Rules).
2- Department of Rhetoric and Criticism teaches the following subjects: (The Sciences of Rhetoric: Semantics, Rhetoric, Figures of Speech – Criticism – Rhetoric Research – The Beginning of Rhetoric).
3- Department of Literature and Criticism teaches the following subjects: (History of Arabic Literature and Literary Texts – Literary Criticism – Essay – Islamic Literature – Comparative Literature – Literary Research – The Rhythms and Rhymes of Poetry).
4- Department of the Fundamentals of Arabic Language teaches the following subjects: (Linguistic Jurisprudence – Qur’anic Recitation and Phonetics – Arabic Dialects and Readings – Research in Philology – General Linguistics – Language Dictionaries).

Fourth: The Branch of Journalism and Mass Communication (Now at Women’s Branch in Cairo):
(Department of Journalism and Publication – Department of Radio and Television – Department of Public Relations and Publicity) They teach the following subjects: (Journalistic and Broadcasting Editing – Journalistic Translation – History of Islamic Communication and its Role in Societies – Journalistic and Broadcasting Laboratories and Trainings – Arts of Journalism and Broadcasting (Shooting, Directing, Engineering, Preparing, Presenting, etc) – The Art of Magazines and Specialized Journals – The Art of Manuscripts – Journalistic and Broadcasting Direction.

Fifth: The Branch of Sharia and Law:

  1. Department of Public Law teaches the following subjects: (Constitutional Regulations – Criminolgy – International Organizations – Public International Law – Administrative Law – Administrative Justice – Criminal Law (Public and Private) – Public Finance and Tax Legislation – Criminal Procedures).
Department of Private Law teaches the following subjects: (An Introduction to Legal Sciences – History of Law – Civil Law – Commercial and Maritime Law – Civil and Commercial Procedures – Work Legislation – Agricultural Law – Private International Law – Prosecution (implementation).

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

COURSES FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2007/2008

PREPARATORY & QUALIFYING YEARS

I LITERARY TEXTS:
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (Cambridge Edition)
Shaw, Bernard. Arms and the Man
Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere’s Fan or An Ideal Husband
Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey
Selected Short Stories
An Introductory Selection of Poetry

II ESSAY:
Tapestry Writing 1
Introduction to Academic Writing
A Comprehensive English Grammar

III GRAMMAR:
Azar, Betty. Understanding and Using English Grammar

IV CONVERSATION:
Reading 1 (with tape)
Listening 1 (with tape)

V READING COMPREHENSION:
Didier, Samuela Eckstut. Reading 1
Radman, Stuart. English Vocabulary in Use

FIRST YEAR

DRAMA
Shakespeare, William. Othello (Cambridge Edition)
Jonson, Ben. The Alchemist (1610)
Miller, Arthur. A View from the Bridge (1955)

NOVEL
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations (1861)
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Wives and Daughters (1865)

POETRY
Sixteenth & Seventeenth Century Verse

GRAMMAR
Azar, Betty. Understanding English Grammar

PHONETICS
O’Connor, J. D. Better English Pronunciation

CONVERSATION
Doff, Adrian ed. Cambridge Skills for Fluency
Listening 2 (with tape)
Speaking 2 (with tape)
English Vocabulary in Use: Pre-Intermediate & Intermediate

ESSAY
Kenan, Lucette Rollet. A Changing Scene

SECOND YEAR

DRAMA
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth
Congreve, William. The Way of the World (1700)
Dryden, John. All for Love (1678)

NOVEL
Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders (1722)
Fielding, Henry. Joseph Andrews (1742)
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)

POETRY
Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century Poetry

CIVILIZATION: (Suggested references)
Trevelyan, G. M. A Shortened History of England
Plumb, J. H. England in the Eighteenth Century

SYNTAX
Stageberg, Norman C. An Introductory English Grammar

LINGUISTICS
Yule, George. The Study of Language. 2nd ed.

ESSAY WRITING & SKILLS
Weidauer, Marie. Tapestry Writing 3
Ackert, Patricia. Cause & Effect

THIRD YEAR

DRAMA
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet
Shaw, Bernard. Heartbreak House (1919)
Galsworthy, John. Justice (1910)

NOVEL
Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
Eliot, George. Adam Bede (1859)
Bowen, Elizabeth. A World of Love (1955)

CIVILIZATION (Suggested references)
Trevelyan, G. M. A Shortened History of England
Plumb, J. H. England in the Nineteenth Century

POETRY
Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century Verse

SYNTAX
Radford, R. An Introduction to Transformational Grammar
Transformational Generative Grammar (Application of Chomsky’s Theory)

ESSAY
Oshima, Alice, & Anne Hogue. Writing Academic English 3rd ed. (Longman Academic Series)

LITERARY CRITICISM
English Critical Essays from Sidney to Shelley ( Anglo-Egyptian Bookshop)

FOURTH YEAR

DRAMA
Ionesco, Eugene. The Chairs ( 1952)
O’Casey, John. Juno and the Paycock (1925)
O’Neill, Eugene. All God’s Chillun Got Wings (1923)
Eliot, T. S. Murder in the Cathedral (1935)

NOVEL
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse (1927)
Fowles, John. The Collector (1963)
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies (1954)

POETRY (Suggested reference)
O’Clair & Ellmann eds. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry

CRITICISM
English Critical Essays from Matthew Arnold to the Present
( Anglo-Egyptian Bookshop)

CIVILIZATION (Suggested references)
Savelle, Max ed. A History of World Civilization, vol. 2
Brinton, Crane, John Christopher & Robert Lee Wolff eds. Modern Civilization: A History of the Last Five Centuries

LINGUISTICS
Palmer, F. R. Semantics

ESSAY
Dean, Michael. Write It
Lannon, John M. The Writing Process: A Concise Rhetoric, Reader, and Handbook

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