The Critical Analysis of Al-Adab va Al-Nosos le Gheyreh AlNateghin bel-Arabiyah

Al-Adab va Al-Nosos le Gheyreh Al-Nateghin bel-Arabiyah written by Hassan Khamis AlMaliji is a textbook written and designed with the aim of teaching Arabic verse and prose texts on advanced level to non-Arabic learners. The present article with descriptive-analytic method by considering special criteria of textbooks aims to evaluate and criticize the mentioned book. Meanwhile, it aims to express the formal and content features along with the shortcomings and advantages of the book for the target society. The results of this study indicate that aside from formal issues, considering the advantages like content comprehensiveness, structural coherence, lessons’ presentation method, simple and fluent language, and the compatibility with moral and religious principles it could be used as one of the secondary sources for teaching texts lesson in Arabic language and literature undergraduate course.