{"id":690,"date":"2012-10-01T13:18:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T13:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/myarabic\/?p=6"},"modified":"2012-10-01T13:18:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T13:18:29","slug":"6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/myarabic\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Arabic and Qur’an"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My name is Zeba. I am a Loyola student majoring in Biology with a minor in Arabic and Islamic World Studies. I have been learning Arabic at Loyola with ustaadha Sawsan Abbadi for a number of reasons. I think communication is very important and often one of the main hindrances to open communication is language. The Arabic language especially interesting to me because of my background as a Muslim.\u00a0The\u00a0Islamic holy book, the Qur’an, is written in\u00a0formal Arabic. Learning the language is helping me to\u00a0better read and understand the book.<\/p>\n

For example, I was recently looking up verse 19 from Surat al-A’raf. The translation of this verse reads:<\/p>\n

And “O Adam, dwell, you and your wife, in Paradise and eat from wherever you will but do not approach this tree, lest you be among the wrongdoers.”<\/p>\n

I wanted to see if the original Arabic script actually used the word that I learned for “tree” in class. Turns out that they did! I found that I could recognize a lot of the words from the verse without the help of the translation: askun (live), anta (you), zowjuka (your wife), hadhihi (this), and\u00a0shajara (tree). I could also see the roots of words that I learned in class within some of the words that I could not\u00a0identify right away.<\/p>\n

I was extremely excited to know just how much only 2 semesters of Arabic with Professor Sawsan have already helped me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Zeba. I am a Loyola student majoring in Biology with a minor in Arabic and Islamic World Studies. I have been learning Arabic at Loyola with ustaadha Sawsan Abbadi for a number of reasons. I think communication is very important and often one of the main hindrances to open communication is language. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/myarabic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/myarabic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/myarabic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/myarabic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/myarabic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/myarabic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/myarabic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/myarabic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/myarabic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}