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Gateway to Arabic is a well-structured, progressive course that has been carefully designed to teach Arabic in a non-Arabic-speaking environment to learners from a broad age range. The series has become well established in Britain and America and is used by a great many Muslim schools and madrasahs, as well as being stocked by the majority of Islamic bookshops in Britain. It is also well suited to individuals wishing to engage in self-study of the language. This is a new curriculum series and has had remarkable success in its first year of usage. A well-structured progressive course designed to teach Arabic to students in a non-Arabic speaking environment. It contains a wealth of exercises to reinforce vocabulary and the understanding and application of grammar. Extensive research and piloting ensures that materials are easy to learn from and to teach. Books are designed to cater to the Muslim child learning Arabic in English speaking countries. The series is intended to take the student from having no knowledge of Arabic, all the way up to GCSE level (the U.K.’s General Certificate in Secondary Education) and beyond. With its wealth of practice materials, Gateway to Arabic Book One teaches the skills necessary for reading and writing the language. This book covers: # Recognition of Arabic letters in their isolate form # Formulation of letters in their written isolate form, with clear arrows to indicate the correct writing direction # The three short vowe...read more

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Easy steps in Quran reading is carefully graded manual which covers letter recognition and all the vowels, signs, and rules of reading the Arabic script.It includes some of the basic rules of Quranic recitation r tajwid.The final section contains surah al-Fatihah and the last ten surahs of the Quran.All the words used in the manual are from the Quran.

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This Teacher's/self-study Manual contains full explanatory notes in English for each page of the Arabic text of Easy Steps in Qur'an Reading. Each line of the text is numbered to make it easy to follow text and tapes. This is all part of the simple and enjoyable Easy Steps in Arabic Course, the main aim of which is to encourage the regular reading of the Quran from an early age and a love for and attachment to the Glorious Book. The course can be used by anyone wishing to read and write the Arabic script. Two Appendices give detailed suggestions on how to use the course and on teaching methods and techniques. There is also a lesson for teaching the course in a ten-day intensive programme. Tapes sold separately. Pupil's Textbook also available.

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EASY STEPS IN ARABIC HANDWRITING Workbook One This is the first of two graded books for teaching beginners to write, and read, the Arabic script. It is part of the Graded Steps in Arabic course published by MELS. All the words used in this Workbook are taken from the Qur'an. The words at any given stage only include letters introduced to that point. A variety of techniques are used to show how words are formed from separate letters and how to identify letters in words. The main aim of the Workbooks is to make the reading of the Qur'anic script an easy, quick and enjoyable exercise.

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THE `GATEWAY TO ARABIC' HANDWRITING BOOK forms part of the "Gateway to Arabic" series. The primary objective of the book is to show students how to write in the ruq'ah style of Arabic handwriting, as well as the printed naskh style, through the use of arrowed and numbered diagrams. The formation and direction of pen movement for each letter of the alphabet in all its forms is clearly demonstrated. The copying of the carefully selected Islamic words, phrases and Qur'anic verses would assist the learner to develop increased fluency and confidence in their handwriting.

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GATEWAY TO ARABIC is a well-structured, progressive course that has been carefully designed to teach Arabic in a non-Arabic-speaking environment to learners from a broad age range. It contains a wealth of exercises to reinforce vocabulary acquisition and the understanding and application of grammar. Extensive research and piloting ensure that materials are easy to learn from and to teach. Gateway to Arabic Extension Book One addresses in particular the needs of students who have completed Book Two of the Gateway series and wish to have the opportunity to practise further the skills they have acquired. This book aims to engage the student in a variety of language games, exercises and dialogue activities that will serve to reinforce the vocabulary, grammar and skills they have already learned in Book Two. In addition, it introduces additional extensive vocabulary, new sentence structures and conversational skills in a lively, interactive manner, ideally suited for use in the classroom. This book covers: • Personal details: talking about oneself • Likes and dislikes • Moving house: rooms, furniture and household items • Talking about countries, nationalities and languages • Everyday activities and hobbies • Shopping: shops and their merchandise • Occupations • Comprehensive colours and their usage • Animals: pets, zoo and farm animals • Opposites • Prepositions: asking and describing where things are • Introduction to simple forms of past and present verbs • Ex...read more

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GATEWAY TO ARABIC is a well-structured, progressive course which has been carefully designed to teach Arabic in a non-Arabic-speaking environment to learners from a broad age range. It contains a wealth of exercises to reinforce vocabulary acquisition and the understanding and application of grammar. Extensive research and piloting ensure that the materials are easy to learn from and to teach. Gateway to Arabic Book Six focuses on Form II, III and IV verbs in a comprehensive manner, covering regular and irregular verbs in various moods and tenses. Book Six also introduces the subjunctive and jussive moods and the particles that govern them. The key theme running throughout the book is the weather and seasons, and the student will learn to talk about temperature and climate in various parts of the world at different times of the year. Passages of dialogue and extensive exercises enable the student to put into practice the knowledge hFe or she has acquired, thereby reinforcing the learning process. This book covers: •The weather and seasons •The subjunctive mood and associated particles •The jussive mood and associated particles •An introduction to the derived forms of Arabic verbs •Regular and irregular Form II, III and IV verbs in the Present, past, imperative, subjunctive and jussive •Over 140 past and present tense verbs •Reference list of nouns and their plurals •Sample verb templates to aid conjugation

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EASY STEPS IN ARABIC HANDWRITING Workbook Two This is the second of two graded books for teaching beginners to write, and read, the Arabic script. It is part of the Graded Steps in Arabic course published by MELS. All the words used in this Workbook are taken from the Qur'an. The words at any given stage only include letters introduced to that point. A variety of techniques are used to show how words are formed from separate letters and how to identify letters in words. The main aim of the Workbooks is to make the reading of the Qur'anic script an easy, quick and enjoyable exercise.

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Gateway to Arabic is a well-structured, progressive course that has been carefully designed to teach Arabic in a non-Arabic-speaking environment to learners from a broad age range. The series has become well established in Britain and America and is used by a great many Muslim schools and madrasahs, as well as being stocked by the majority of Islamic bookshops in Britain. It is also well suited to individuals wishing to engage in self-study of the language. This is a new curriculum series and has had remarkable success in its first year of usage. A well-structured progressive course designed to teach Arabic to students in a non-Arabic speaking environment. It contains a wealth of exercises to reinforce vocabulary and the understanding and application of grammar. Extensive research and piloting ensures that materials are easy to learn from and to teach. Books are designed to cater to the Muslim child learning Arabic in English speaking countries. Gateway to Arabic Book Two builds on the basic reading and writing skills acquired in Book One (Starter Book). With a vocabulary of over 350 words and easy-to-follow explanations, supported by 250 illustrations, Book Two provides learners with a basic knowledge of Arabic grammar, enabling them to take their first steps in understanding and using non-verbal sentences. The series is intended to take the student from having no knowledge of Arabic, all the way up to GCSE level (the U.K.’s General Certificate in Secondary Educati...read more

Gateway to Arabic is a well-structured, progressive course that has been carefully designed to teach Arabic in a non-Arabic-speaking environment to learners from a broad age range. The series has become well established in Britain and America and is used by a great many Muslim schools and madrasahs, as well as being stocked by the majority of Islamic bookshops in Britain. It is also well suited to individuals wishing to engage in self-study of the language. The series is intended to take the student from having no knowledge of Arabic, all the way up to GCSE level (the U.K.’s General Certificate in Secondary Education) and beyond. Gateway to Arabic Book Four focuses on family relationships and life in the home. It builds upon the student's knowledge of past, present and imperative verbs by introducing some hollow, doubled root letter and 'hamzated' verb forms. Each topic is reinforced through the provision of realistic dialogues to enable the student to gain greater confidence and fluency in using Arabic. This book covers: # Family relationships # Home and family life # Asking for and giving directions # Telling the time # Extensive dialogue practice # Doubled root letter verbs # Hollow verbs # Verbs with an initial alif or waw # Verbs with a medial or final hamza # Interrogative particles # Rules governing hamza # Cardinal numbers from 20 to 99 and ordinal numbers from 1 to 19 and the rules governing their use. # A comprehensiv...read more

GATEWAY TO ARABIC is a well-structured, progressive course which has been carefully designed to teach the skills of reading and writing Arabic to learners from a broad age range. It contains a wealth of practice materials to reinforce the learning process. Extensive research and piloting ensure that materials are easy to learn from and to teach. Clear guidance on every page shows the learner what to do. Gateway to Arabic Book Five focuses on air travel, meals and medical matters. It builds upon the student's knowledge of first form verbs by introducing various defective forms (verbs containing one or more weak root letters). The book also extends the student's understanding of cardinal numbers into the thousands and suggests practical applications for their use. Passages of dialogue, sample emails and model telephone conversations enable the student to gain greater confidence and fluency in using Arabic, while comprehension passages challenge the learner to extend their understanding. This book covers: • Air travel • Food • Ordering a meal in a restaurant • Hospital and doctor's appointments • Medical problems • Defective verbs: past, present and imperative - assimilated (mithal) - weak (naqis) - complex (lafif) • Cardinal Numbers from 1 to 1000 and beyond • Practical application of numbers • Telephone calls and email • Over 150 past and present tense verbs • Reference list of nouns and their plurals

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Gateway to Arabic is a well-structured, progressive course that has been carefully designed to teach Arabic in a non-Arabic-speaking environment to learners from a broad age range. The series has become well established in Britain and America and is used by a great many Muslim schools and madrasahs, as well as being stocked by the majority of Islamic bookshops in Britain. It is also well suited to individuals wishing to engage in self-study of the language. The series is intended to take the student from having no knowledge of Arabic, all the way up to GCSE level (the U.K.’s General Certificate in Secondary Education) and beyond. Book Three offers a step-by-step approach to learning past and present tense verbs, with plenty of opportunity for practice. Each point of grammar is reinforced through sample conversations that offer the student the chance to use the language in a meaningful context and develop confidence in self-expression. This book covers: # Over 60 past and present tense verbs # The imperative and negative imperative # The nominative, accusative and genitive cases, including the genitive of possession (idafa) # Comparative and superlative adjectives # Attached and detached pronouns # Word roots and word patterns # Cardinal numbers from 1 to 19 and ordinal numbers from 1 to 10, and the rules governing their usage # Prepositions # Dialogue practice # A comprehensive listing of the nouns used in the book, together with their ...read more

GRADED STEPS IN QUR'AN READING is based on the `Uthmani script used in the Madinah Mus-h of or copy of the Qur'an. This script and the way in which the vowels and other signs are written make the art and science of reading the Qur'an clear and precise. The `Uthmani script is used in Arabic-speaking countries and is the standard used by many throughout the world. Graded Steps in Qur'an Reading is intended to make this script more accessible and easy to use. It is patterned on the widely used MELS Easy Steps in Qur'an Reading with its carefully graded sequence of Units. These Units cover letter recognition and the vowels, signs and rules of reading the Arabic script. In this book, they also cover the rules of Qur'anic recitation or tajwld. The entire Arabic text of this Students' Edition is recorded on CDs and audio tapes. Each Unit and each line of text is numbered to make it easy to follow the text and the recording. The recording can also be used with the Teacher's/Self-Study Edition. It is recommended that this manual be used with the two workbooks, Easy Steps in Arabic Handwriting. These are part of the MELS Easy Steps in Arabic course, the main aim of which is to encourage the regular reading of the Qur'an from an early age and a love for and attachment to the Glorious Book.

This is very difficult to learn Urdu language without physical appearance of the teacher. But it was the demand of the people to learn Urdu themselves, similar to the other western languages. Keeping this in mind, Prof. 'Aziz-ur-Rahman has written this book for the beginners to learn this language in a very short period. The author has introduced the language from initial stages in a very systematic way, mentioning words and sentences in Roman English (Transliteration) to read, write and speak properly.

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This pack of 64 double-sided flashcards focuses on vocabulary relating to the school environment, and includes the school items taught in Book Two of the 'Gateway to Arabic' series, among others. The cards should prove beneficial not only to self-taught students, but would also serve as a valuable teaching tool within the classroom. This pack will help students to learn: •52 school-themed nouns in Arabic in their singular and plural forms •Useful Arabic phrases, including questioning words and appropriate responses The cards include suggestions for classroom games and activities. Each card gives guidance on correct pronunciation. Look out for other titles in the 'Gateway to Arabic' flashcards series: Set One: The Arabic Alphabet – Letter Recognition and Reading Skills. ISBN: 0-9547509-3-4. 64 cards. Price: £5.50. Includes all the letters of the alphabet in their isolate and joined forms, the long and short vowels, tanween, sukoon and shadda.

Professor Abdur Rahim’s eight-volume texts enable the student to acquire a knowledge of Arabic in the classical structural form. All of the books teach essential language skills through applied grammar. Each lesson is based on a conversation which illustrates distinctive language patterns. A variety of exercises helps the student to understand and master each of the patterns occurring in the lesson. The vocabulary ranges from classical and Quranic Arabic to words and expressions current in modern Arabic. This series of books is currently being utilized at various schools to prepare students for the University of London (UK) GCE O-Level and A-Level examinations. About Authors: Dr. V. Abdur Rahim Professor Abdur Rahim is the Director of the Translation Centre of the King Fahd Quran Printing Complex and former Professor of Arabic at the Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia.

100s of difficult questions about Islam answered in an easily understood and structured manner. Based on the cassette series produced in Canada by Dr Jamal Badawi. Authentic references used, from the Qur'an and Hadith. Ideal for individual study/group study or Islamic teachings course. Suitable for Muslims and non Muslims

The flashcartds are a great tool to engage anyone in a solitary or group setting. They include Arabic words, translations and transliterations on the back of each carf, where learning has never been so much fun. Each pack contains 50 cards.

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The Arabic Course for English-Speaking Students is a comprehensive and popular course for the teaching of the Qur'anic and Traditional Arabic, originally devised and taught at the renowned Madinah Islamic University, catering for the non-Arabic speaking students from all over the world. Over the years, this course has enabled students to become competent in their use of the Arabic language and to participate and benefit from scholarly pursuits such as Qur'anic exegeses, hadith, fiqh, sirah, history, and classical and modern Arabic literature. It is concise (consisting of only three books, reasonably short) but extensive in their coverage. It combines modern Arabic vocabulary with Islamic terminology used in the Qur'an and Sunnah. It Helps acquire an understanding of hundreds of Qur'anic verses, ahadith, Arabic parables and poetry

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This pack of 64 double-sided flashcards has been designed to complement Book One of the 'Gateway to Arabic' series, and also supports 'The Key to Arabic Book One'. The cards should prove beneficial not only to self-taught students, but would also serve as a valuable teaching tool within the classroom. This pack will help students learn to recognise: •All the letters of the Arabic alphabet in their isolate and joined forms •The long and short vowel sounds •Tanween (-an, -in and -un endings) •Shadda, sukoon and the dipthongs -ay and -ow. Look out for other titles in the 'Gateway to Arabic' flashcards series! Set Two: School Vocabulary. ISBN: 0-9547509-4-2 Price: £5.5o. Includes 52 school-themed nouns, io cards of useful phrases, as well as suggestions for usage including classroom games.