International Seminar

On
ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: A CONTEMPORARY VIEW
Arabic ranks sixth in the world's league table of languages, with an estimated 186
million native speakers across 22 countries. As the language of the Qur'an, the holy book
of Islam, it is also widely used throughout the Muslim world. Arabic is the only surviving
member of the Ancient North Arabian dialect group attested in pre-Islamic Arabic
inscriptions dating back to the 4th century.
18th December is being observed as the International Arabic Language Day. The
organizing committee wants to hold the seminar on the date. Language sciences have
achieved great successes in both theoretical and applied spheres. They have merged with
the human, natural, medical, and technical sciences to create new linguistic and literary
disciplines. Arising from this, the Department of Arabic, University of Kerala has chosen
to conduct an international seminar entitled Arabic Language and Literature: A
Contemporary View to examine contemporary vision of the sciences of Arabic language
and literature and how the Arabic language has benefited from it. The topic has much
importance while the Arab world had beset by social upheavals and political divisiveness
and the language is being fully revived in the image of classical Arabic throughout the
Arab speaking countries.
The Department of Arabic hopes that this conference will successfully highlight
the contemporary vision of Arabic language sciences outlined by Arab scholars as well as
its literature through their contemporary perusal of Arabic sciences in the fields of
linguistics, literature and criticism.

Focal Areas of the Seminar

a. Language Themes
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Arabic scholars contribution to Arabic language Sciences: a contemporary vision

Syntactic and morphological notions
Issues of semantics with early Arabic scholars in the light of modern linguistics
Modern Arabic dictionaries: criticism and evaluation
Modern approaches in dealing with Arabic Grammar
Machine Translation

b. Literary Themes (The development of Literature only after 1980 will be discussed)
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Approaches of Post Modern Arabic Writers

Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Literature
Development of comparative literature

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Role of Women writers

Impacts of Arab Spring over Arab Writers
Sufism in Arab writings
Influence of Western Languages over the Arabic literature
Development of Translation from Arabic to other languages and vice versa
Contribution of Indian Scholars in Arabic after 1980s
Scheme of Arabic Education in Universities across the world
Contemporary Arabic Journalism (Print and Visual)
Social Media and Arabic Language

Abstract of the paper should be send on or before 10th January 2015. Late Entries will not
be entertained.
Important dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: 10/01/2015
Notification of Accepted Abstracts: 15/01/2015
Full Paper Submission Deadline: 20/01/2015

Seminar: 05/02/2015 to 07/02/2015

for more Information:

Dr. K. Mohammed Basheer

Organizing Secretary &
Head in Charge
Department of Arabic
University of Kerala
Kariavattom P.O 695581
Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Phone No.: 0471 - 2308846

Dr. Thajudeen A.S.

Co-Ordinator &
Assistant Professor
Department of Arabic
University of Kerala
Kariavattom P.O 695581
Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Mobile: 0091 9446827141

Mr. Noushad V.
Convenor &
Assistant Professor
Department of Arabic
University of Kerala
Kariavattom P.O 695581
Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Mobile: 0091 9747318105