Tennessee Williams Influences

To a novice, “uqabbiluka” and “uqaabiluka” would sound similar, but due to a slight error in pronunciation, I asked my Arabic teacher for a kiss in lieu of a meeting.
I would not be able to articulate how intrigued I am about languages. Graduated my secondary education in a bilingual-teacher dominated school, I have to remain zealous about how my English teacher was able to speak both Arabic and French fluently and my Physics teacher would frequently slip a few Arabic words to further explain how a generator is operated, in which Arabic as a third-language, did not help at all.
Even as a science student, I sat the GCE O Level Arabic Language Exam albeit the school did not offer advance Arabic classes for the science class. Surprisingly, my …show more content…
After researching Tennessee Williams and finding out how Williams’ plays are influenced by Aristotle’s view on mimesis is when I became interested in Aristotle’s history and how much he has contributed to the Muslim philosophy. He is famous in Mantiq, Islamic philosophy as “Aristu” and is named as the first teacher. He taught Alexander the Great, the Roman warrior, first hand but what astonished me the most was finding out with references from the Quraan that Alexander is Zulqarnain, who in Islamic History, is a notable prophet. However, Alexander’s expedition were towards the east and south whereas Zulqarnain was more towards the west, east and an unknown third direction. Being a Greek mythology enthusiast, I am certain this correlates with Cyrus the Persian conqueror instead who conquered almost eighty percent of the world during that era. Cyrus then comes very close to the narrative in the Quraan. Unfortunately, this could not be confirmed although the story of both warriors are quite coincidental and the only record that could unveil this mystery is written in Arabic, hence I am very much determined to master the Arabic

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