http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/5996 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:55:35 GMT 2026-04-27T02:55:35Z http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/6015 Mosques in enhancing the religiosity among the Muslims in Sri Lanka: an empirical analysis Jazeel, M. I. M. This main purpose of this paper is to investigates the mosques’ performance in enhancing Islamic religiosity and spiritual advancement. The study primarily used the analyses of the quantitative data obtained from 218 respondents through survey administered among the randomly selected mosques in Sri Lanka. The field observation and review of the textual resources were used as supplementary. The findings reveal that the mosques are mostly spiritually vital, and playing traditional role in enhancing Islamic religiosity in a minority context. In this sense, the prayers and rituals are main programmes of the mosques. The attendance of the Muslims to the daily and Friday obligatory prayers is gradually increasing. The Muslim women also participate in tarawih and ‘id prayers. Apart from some ritual practices such as qur’an recitation and i c tikaf, there is controversial opinion about most of rituals, particularly: mawlid, collective dhikr/ratib, Bukhari majlis and kanduri. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/6015 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/6014 اللسانيات النظرية من وجهة نظر طلبة اللغة العربية بجامعة جنوبي شرقي سريالنكا دراسة وصفية تحليليلة Nashmel, S. L. M.; Hamawiya, Adham Theoretical linguistics has a dynamic role in studying languages in scientific and descriptive manners. Describing how those languages are actually used, many sciences contribute to it in language service. The European languages benefited from it to describe those languages phonetically, morphologically, synthetically, and semantically. Further, the applied linguistics has an important role in qualifying some fields such as language teaching, translation, and others. But there is in the Arab world a stranger view regarding acceptance of the linguistics and realizing its facts, fields, and its functions. However, they prefer traditional Arabic grammar. This phenomenon is with the students of SEUSL Arabic learners as they learned Arabic by the ways of traditional Grammar methods such as Tajwid, Sarf, and Nahw in preuniversity stage and the linguistics is being introduced after entering the university. Those Students are divided into two groups toward accepting theoretical linguistics. One group wants to continue learning it along with traditional Arabic grammar while another one is sufficient with learn Arabic by using traditional Grammar. Therefore, the two researchers wanted to conduct systematic research to investigate this phenomenon by using qualitative and quantitative methods. They distributed a questionnaire to know how those students differentiate between linguistics and Arabic traditional grammars. The interviews were carried out with lecturers to understand the situation and the problems of teaching and learning theoretical linguistics. The study reached that they didn’t realize the fact of the linguistics, and they could not differentiate clearly between the linguistics and traditional Arabic grammar. Also the reasons behind this phenomenon are the weakness in language skills, especially in reading skill, lack in resource of vocabulary, concentrating with the other subjects, teacher’s part in preparing lecturers of linguistics, and the learning materials which suits with Sri Lankan learners’ situation. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/6014 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/6013 From here we start: towards resuscitation of Arabic/Islamic bridged programme in the departments of Arabic and Islamic studies in southern Nigerian universities Adekunle Adegoke, Kazeem The twin discipline of Arabic and Islamic Studies, as academic disciplines in some Southern Nigerian western stereo-typed universities have been witch-hunted with various obstacles. Out of these obstacles, the major one is shortfall admission and low enrolment of the students qualifying for the duo programmes which later led to the introduction of Arabic/Islamic-bridged programme to rescue the situation. This paper aims at looking at the origin of the twin discipline of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Southern Nigeria and its in-road to western stereotyped universities in 1960s. It also aims at show-casing the intervention of Arabic/Islamicbridged programmes, its purpose, its advantages and how it served as timely intervention and rescue between 1960s and 1980s. It is discovered that this Arabic/Islamic-bridged programme had served as an effective linkage of students from the private purely Arabic schools (Madāris) to the western stereo-typed schools with obvious fruitful results in the duo disciplines in the Departments of Arabic and Islamic studies in Southern Nigerian western stereo-typed universities. The findings show that Southern Nigerian western stereo-typed universities would continue having the problems of shortfall in admission and low enrolment of the students qualifying for the duo programmes if they fail to resuscitate the Arabic/Islamic-bridged programme. The study recommends that this Arabic/Islamic-bridged programme should be reintroduced into the affected universities so as to sustain the duo disciplines from extinction in the western stereo-typed institutions in the Southern Nigeria. It also recommends that each of these private purely Arabic schools in the Southern Nigeria should harmonise their syllabus with that of National Board of Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS) and Joint Examination of Board of Arabic and Islamic Studies (JEBAIS) which are the presently recognized examination bodies for this programme. It further recommends that Federal Ministry of Education should give its moral and financial supports by taking up the academic and financial challenges of some of these private purely Arabic schools, if not all, as it is in operation in the Northern Nigeria so as to enhance their academic output to meet the demand of the western stereo-typed universities in the whole country. Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/6013 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/6012 األخطاء في استخدام الضمائر العربية لدى الطالبات في مدرسة عربية للبنات بشرق سريلنكا: دراسة وصفية تحليلية Fathima Sabrina, Abdul Azeez; Jazeel, M. I. M.; Fowzul, M. B. The error analysis plays a significant role in developing the writing skills among the students. The numerous studies globally conducted on the error analysis led to form a definite approach for it. Considering its importance in improving the writing skill, this study primarily focuses on identifying the errors in the application of attached, separate, and invisible pronouns in Arabic. The Muslims who live in the minority context of Sri Lanka encounter numerous issues in learning and teaching Arabic as a Second Language. Particularly, the girls’ Arabic schools experience the difficulties and obstacles in the meantime the boys’ Arabic schools are considerably in progress. This study, which based on analytical and descriptive method, was carried out among the students of girls’ Arabic school in the Eastern Sri Lanka. Therefore, this research study has chosen 22 female students from third year of intermediate level in aforementioned school and tried to analyze their competence and level of using Arabic pronouns in a written test. The findings reveal that the errors mostly occur in the use of pronouns, particularly, in writing the attached third person pronouns and in the hidden third person pronouns, where the both represent the percentage 100% while the attached first-person pronouns fall by 95%. However, the errors in the detached third person pronouns account for 50% while the hidden first-person pronouns represent 54%. At the same time, the errors in the first person detached pronouns occur lower reaching 23%. Hence, the study recommends the Arabic teachers to engage the students in the large number of written exercises and to correct their errors until they realize their errors and be capable to tackle them Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/6012 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z