This page provides some useful resources for students of the Arabic language. These are mainly related to the Madeenah University Arabic Course.
Email: ejtaal at gmail dot com
Here are the full books of the syllabus. They have been slightly altered to display as one large page for easy browsing and printing. Please see below for the original source documents used.
If you want to download all the documents as I've prepared them here including the original source documents then download this zip file.
Level 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| English title | Arabic title | link |
| Arabic Language | Durus ul-Lughat il-Arabiya | full book |
| Learning how to write Arabic | Ta`leem ul-Kitaabah | full book |
| Reading | Qiraa-a | full book |
| Expression | Ta`beer | full book |
Level 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| English title | Arabic title | link |
| Arabic Language | Durus ul-Lughat il-Arabiya | full book |
| Jurisprudence | Fiqh | full book |
| Dictation | Imlaa-a | full book |
| Prophetic reports | Hadeeth | full book |
| Reading | Qiraa-a | full book |
| Stories of the Prophets | Qasas u-Nabiyeen / Qasas ul-Anbiya | full book |
| Pronounciation | Tadeebat u-Sowtiya | full book |
| Expression | Ta`beer | full book |
Level 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| English title | Arabic title | link |
| Arabic Language | Durus ul-Lughat il-Arabiya | full book |
| Jurisprudence | Fiqh | full book |
| Dictation | Imlaa-a | full book |
| Prophetic reports | Hadeeth | full book |
| Reading | Qiraa-a | full book |
| Description of the Companions Lives | Soor min al-Hayaat u-Sahaabah | full book |
| Biography of the Prophet | Mukhtaraat min a-seerah a-Nabaweeya | full book |
| Expression | Ta`beer | full book |
| Monotheism | Tawheed | full book |
| Simplified Recitation | Tajweed ul-Muyassar | full book |
Level 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| English title | Arabic title | link |
| Arabic Language | Durus ul-Lughat il-Arabiya | full book |
| Lives of the Righteous Caliphs | Tareekh ul-Khulafa u-Rashideen | full book |
| Reading | Qiraa-a | full book |
| Literary Texts? | Nusoos il-Adbiya | full book |
| Expression | Ta`beer | full book |
| Description of the Companions Lives | Soor min al-Hayaat u-Sahaabah | full book |
| Explanation of the Qur'an | Tafseer | full book |
| Monotheism | Tawheed | full book |
The original material used to compile the books above is available online at these places:
This document is a useful chart for the different types of verbs as classified by Hans Wehr. It only shows the first 10 forms as 11-14 are only rarely used in advanced poetry.
The procedure to get Internet Explorer/Firefox/Opera to render the arabic fonts properly in a clean Windows installation appears to be:
In Linux (Kubuntu Fiesty Fawn), there seem to be 2 options:
andlso.ttf artrbdo.ttf artro.ttf simpbdo.ttf simpfxo.ttf simpo.ttf tradbdo.ttf trado.ttfAfter they have been copied, both Konqueror and Firefox seem to be able to display the arabic text the same as Internet Explorer.
Here is a small table of links to Arabic Bookshops on the internet. I've given my subjective rating of their inventory size and quality in the English and Arabic sections, the more stars out of 5, the better.
| Online Arabic Bookshops | ||
|---|---|---|
| Website | English | Arabic |
| http://www.alkitab.com/ or http://www.jarirbooks.net/ | ***** | |
| http://www.albalagh.net/bookstore/ | **** | **** |
| http://fadakbooks.com/index.html | *** | ***** |
| http://www.dar-us-salam.com/ | *** | |
| http://kitaabun.com/shopping3/index.php | *** | |
| http://www.halalco.com/index.html | ** | |