Access to Qur’anic Arabic (Textbook, Workbook, Selections)

1. Access to Qur’anic Arabic – Textbook
The Textbook covers the basic grammar and structure of Arabic using Qur’anic words, phrases and sentences throughout. It is also based on the principle of word frequency in the Qur’an. It uses three Word Lists – with words occurring over 100 times, between 50 and 100 times and between 25 and 49 times in the Qur’an. This approach has two benefits. Users will not be burdened with a very large vocabulary from the outset, and with non-Qur’anic vocabulary. By mastering the select vocabulary, they will be able to understand much and quickly. The page layout and design of the book should make it easy to follow.

2. Access to Qur’anic Arabic – Workbook
This Workbook has stimulating exercises for each of the 40 Units of the Textbook and gives much-needed practice in grammar, structure and meaning. Again, only vocabulary and actual sentences from the Qur’an are used in the Workbook. At an early stage, students are also introduced to unvowelled Arabic text which can only be read accurately with a good knowlege of Arabic grammar and structure.

4. Access to Qur’anic Arabic – Selections
This book of annotated Selections from the Qur’an has passages that feature the select vocabulary and illusrate points of grammar, structure and style covered in the Textbook with some additional material included.

The 110 selections are presented with parallel translations, notes and vocabulary in an attractive and easy to use format.A special feature of the Selections book is the combined Vocabulary List of words occurring over 25 times in the Qur’an.

Four CDs (in tracks) for Textbook and Selections

Textbook
Two CDs with separate tracks for each of the 40 Units have recordings of the 15 lines of Qur’anic text of each Unit of the Textbook with translation into English.

Selections
Two CDS contain the full recording of the Selections, recited by Shaykh Muhammad Siddiq al-Minshawi. His recitation has been chosen for its refinement, its beauty and its precision in observing the rules of Tajwid – the art and the science of Qur’anic recitation