阿拉伯人文学科是NELC博士学位的专业，专门研究阿拉伯文学文化已有15年的传统，并着重于前现代主义。美女作家，地理，历史和史学，文学史和批评等流派的阿拉伯作家敏锐地意识到从事传统工作，并帮助创建了广阔的文学领域，从大西洋沿岸到印度乃至其他地区，其中解释，互文典故和评论起着恒定的作用。我们研究这些作者，他们的文本，他们产生他们的背景以及他们的解释历史。阿拉伯人文学科专业与古典近东学科有很多课程，但这里的重点主要是阿拉伯文学传统。阿拉伯人文学科的学生必须证明对古典阿拉伯语的掌握以及使用另一种近东语言进行研究的
The Arabic Humanities is a specialization of the NELC PhD devoted to the fifteen-hundred-year tradition of Arabic literary culture, with an emphasis on the premodern. Arabic authors in such genres as belles-lettres, geography, history and historiography, and literary history and criticism, have been acutely conscious of working in a tradition, and helped create a vast field of literature, ranging from the Atlantic coasts to India and beyond, in which interpretation, intertextual allusion and commentary have played a constant role. We study these authors, their texts, the contexts in which they produced them, and the history of their interpretation. The Arabic Humanities specialization shares many courses with the Classical Near East specialization, but the focus here is primarily on the Arabic literary tradition. Students in the Arabic Humanities specialization must demonstrate mastery of classical Arabic and the ability to conduct research using one other Near Eastern language relevant to their research. They must also have reading knowledge of academic French and German, two of the major languages of scholarship on the Arabic tradition.