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Ibrahim A. Farooqui
Essays on the Arabic language, its sciences and its literature, and on how to learn them well.
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Guides from The Arabic School
Short guides to the Arabic sciences, the classical texts and how to study them.
GuideHow to Learn Classical Arabic: a Roadmap from A1 to C1GuideThe Sciences of the Arabic Language: the Twelve and the NineGuideWhat Is Sarf? Arabic Morphology ExplainedGuideWhat Is Nahw? Arabic Grammar Explained, and the Order of TextsGuideWhat Is I'rab? How to Parse an Arabic SentenceGuideWhat Is Balaghah? Arabic Rhetoric ExplainedGuideDars-e-Nizami or the Azhari Route? Two Ways to Learn Classical ArabicGuideHow to Use Classical Arabic DictionariesGuideReading Arabic Literature: a Four-Stage PlanGuideHow to Read Arabic Without VowelsGuideHow to Study Arabic Effectively: Tahdir, Taqrir and TakrarGuideListening, Speaking and Writing in Fusha
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