Is Arabic a Sacred Language or a Foreign Language?

Fatwa Arifah; Mulawarman Hannase; Puti Zulharby; Ari Khairurrijal Fahmi

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Is Arabic a Sacred Language or a Foreign Language?

A Survey of Muslim Student’s Belief in non-Islamic Higher Education in Indonesia

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Fatwa Arifah¹^{, *}, Mulawarman Hannase², Puti Zulharby¹, Ari Khairurrijal Fahmi³

¹Arabic Language Education, Faculty of Language and Arts, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia

²Islamic and Middle East Studies, School of Strategic and Global Studies, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

³Arabic Language Education, Faculty of Islamic Studies, UHAMKA, Jakarta, Indonesia

^*Corresponding author. Email: fatwa.arifah@unj.ac.id

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Fatwa Arifah

Available Online 26 February 2024.

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Keywords: Arabic language; Arabic as a foreign language; sacred language
Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between Muslim identity and the belief in the Arabic language among students at non-Islamic Higher Education in Indonesia. This study uses a qualitative case study approach, and data were collected using a simple random sample survey technique. The respondents were Muslim students at non-Islamic higher education in Jakarta, Makassar, Bogor, and Bandung who enrolled in non-Islamic and non-Arabic language study programs. The results show that the respondents considered Arabic a sacred language more than a foreign language. It is known based on most respondents studying the Qur’an at the elementary school level and some at the kindergarten level. In addition, even though their native language is not Arabic, they state that they have a high fluency in reading the Qu’ran and regularly read the Qu’ran at least once a week. However, they needed to be more convinced and interested in learning Arabic for communication skills like other foreign languages because most stated that learning Arabic is urgent to understand Islam.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2023)
Series: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date: 26 February 2024
ISBN: 10.2991/978-94-6463-376-4_21
ISSN: 2352-5398
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-376-4_21 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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