Arabic from the Beginning Part One

The purpose of this book is to set students on the road to learning Modern Standard Arabic by equipping them with all the skills they need to read and write vowelised Arabic texts. By the end of the book students should be able to:

• identify all the letters of the Arabic alphabet in their isolate and joined forms
• know the difference between the long and short vowel sounds and how to read them, including the diphthongs ay and ow
• read the tanween word endings
• understand the roles of sukoon and shadda
• read words containing a hamza, no matter its position within a word
• recognise the alif al-maqsura
• identify the sun and moon letters and understand their effect on the pronunciation of words defined by al-
• read fully vowelised Arabic text

• ISBN: 9780956688217
• Author: Dr. Imran Hamza Alawiye
• Format: Paperback
• Language: Arabic
• Pages: 72
• Size: 8.5” X 12”
• Publisher: Anglo Arabic Graphics Ltd