Arabic and Comparative Literature

About this course

Arabic is by far the most widely spoken language of the Middle East and North Africa, with hundreds of millions of speakers across a vast and diverse region that spans the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, North Africa, and beyond. It is a language of enormous historical, cultural, and contemporary significance, central to Islamic scholarship and one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Combined with comparative literature, the degree extends your linguistic engagement into a rich scholarly field that reads texts from different national and linguistic traditions alongside each other, asking what they share, how they differ, and what those comparisons reveal about human storytelling, culture, and meaning. At the University of St Andrews, this four-year MA (Hons) programme includes a year abroad, which for an Arabic degree typically involves a period of study or residence in

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