14 Essential Arabic Lessons (Workbook)

What distinguishes this workbook is not its method but its provenance: these fourteen lessons were not designed in the abstract. They were selected and refined over more than a decade in front of real students, and kept because they worked.

What It Covers

Fourteen carefully sequenced lessons building the Arabic letters, the vowels and Quranic reading step by step — classroom-tested, and arranged so each lesson depends only on what came before it.

By the grace of Allah, these lessons have enabled a great many students — young children, teenagers and adults — to recite and write the Book of Allah accurately.

Why It Suits Adults Too

Because the sequence is logical rather than childish. An adult beginner is usually handed either a children's alphabet book, which is embarrassing, or a grammar course, which assumes he can already read. This sits in between: it starts from nothing and treats the learner as capable.

Who It Is For

Complete beginners of any age. Students strengthening foundations they suspect are shaky. Teachers looking for a proven fourteen-lesson structure rather than building one.

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