AHU245-Arabic Culture & Islam
What are the five main Arabic Dialects related to Geographical Regions? Briefly explain the regions.
The five Arabic dialects include Egyptian, Gulf, Maghrebi, Levantine, and Iraqi. Maghrebi sometimes refers to as the dialect of Western includes North Africa dialects of the west part of Egypt. Levantine dialect is spoken in the Levant and includes regions of Jordon, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria. Gulf Arabic is spoken in Eastern Arabia in regions surrounding the coastal part of the Persian Gulf in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Northern Oman, Saudi Arabia, South Iran and Southern Iraq (Kwaik et al., 2018). Egyptian Arabic (Colloquial Egyptian) is a dialect of the North African and Afro-Asiatic language Semitic branch. Iraqi dialect (South Mesopotamian) covers the Mesopotamian basin end of Iraq and southeastern Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Diaspora Iraqi communities.
What are signs of strains facing the Modern Arab Family?
Modern Arab Families indicate signs of strong cultural prohibitions especially on the exposition of family or personal matters to outsiders. Members are confined to the decisions of the family and the help of the family. Some individuals have indicated signs of depression as a result of mental health concerns. Their secular laws prohibit them from sharing information with members of the public which provides them with an alternative of remaining silent if they won’t share their concerns with family members (Choueiri, 2016). Additionally, the overall Arab Thinking perception is a sign of strain. It is common for Arabs to have subjective perceptions and that they deeply protect loss of face meaning they would rarely admit to a mistake and fatalism based on religious beliefs in common.
How does Islam deal with Polygamy? How do Arab Countries deal with it? Give examples
Traditional Shia and Sunni; Islamic Marital jurisprudence encourage their Muslim Men to marry several women to a total of four-point at all points. It is a justifiable practice however it is unusual and unrecompensed and men in such circumstances take an oath. The oath that the wives will be treated with just and the decision to be taken with God Consciousness and Taqwa. In Arab countries, it is a common initiative that is legal and men can have four wives whereas women are not permitted to have multiple husbands (Al-Krenawi, 2020). It is permitted under Islamic Sharia law with such people given titles and government judicial restrictions.
Describe the three waves of Arab Migration to the United States.
Based on anecdotal evidence, there are three waves of migration to the United States from the Middle East. The first wave took place between the late1800s’ and 1924 during the passage of the Johnson-Reed Quota Act. The second wave took place in the mid-1940s’ to 1965 with motivation such as political instability included (Gualtieri & Vinson, 2018). It resulted from the 1948 Arab Israeli war. The third wave began in the 1970s to the present and was initiated with issues of War Refugees from Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine and the restrictions made from Immigration laws inflicted by the U.S and the majority of non-Europeans decided to settle there during 1970s-1990s.
References
Al-Krenawi, A. (2020). Polygamous Marriages: An Arab-Islamic Perspective. Couple Relationships in a Global Context (pp. 193-205). Springer, Cham.
Choueiri, Y. M. (2016). Arab History and the nation-state: a study in Modern Arab Historiography 1820-1980. Routledge.
Gualtieri, S. M., & Vinson, P. H. (2018). Arab/Americas: Locations and Iterations.
Kwaik, K. A., Saad, M., Chatzikyriakidis, S., & Dobnik, S. (2018, May). Shami: A corpus of Levantine Arabic dialects. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018).