Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2023)

Is Arabic a Sacred Language or a Foreign Language?

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

Authors
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
Corresponding Author
Fatwa Arifah
Available Online 26 February 2024.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-376-4_21How to use a DOI?
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
978-94-6463-376-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-376-4_21How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2024 The Author(s)
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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AU  - Mulawarman Hannase
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AU  - Ari Khairurrijal Fahmi
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