Table of Contents

Acknowledgement Introductory Note The Arabic Alphabet Lesson One    Nouns and Adjectives    Exercise One Lesson Two    Plurals    Exercise Two Lesson Three    The Declension of Nouns    Exercise Three Lesson Four    Prepositions    Exercise Four Lesson Five    The First Person Singular Genitive Suffix and the Pronoun of Separation    Exercise Five Lesson Six    Demonstratives    Exercise Six Lesson Seven    Idafa    Exercise Seven Lesson Eight    The Perfect Tense    Exercise Eight Lesson Nine    Pronominal suffixes    Exercise Nine Lesson Ten    The particle ma    Exercise Ten Lesson Eleven    Kull; ba'd; the accusative of time    Exercise Eleven Lesson Twelve    Kana; qala; lamma    Exercise Twelve
Lesson Thirteen    The Dual    Exercise Thirteen Lesson Fourteen    Cardinal Numbers    Exercise Fourteen Lesson Fifteen    Derived Forms of the Verb    Exercise Fifteen Lesson Sixteen    The Imperfect    Exercise Sixteen Lesson Seventeen    Interrogatives    Exercise Seventeen Lesson Eighteen    The Subjunctive    Exercise Eighteen Lesson Nineteen    Inna    Exercise Nineteen Lesson Twenty    The Jussive    Exercise Twenty Lesson Twenty-One    Laysa; idh; idha; man    Exercise Twenty-One Lesson Twenty-Two    Verbs with a hamza as one of their Radicals    Exercise Twenty-Two Lesson Twenty-Three    Relative Sentences    Exercise Twenty-Three Lesson Twenty-Four    Assimilated Verbs    Exercise Twenty-Four Lesson Twenty-Five    The Elative    Exercise Twenty-Five Lesson Twenty-Six    Doubled Verbs    Exercise Twenty-Six Lesson Twenty-Seven    Exceptive Sentences with illa    Exercise Twenty-Seven Lesson Twenty-Eight    Hollow Verbs    Exercise Twenty-Eight Lesson Twenty-Nine    The Vocative    Exercise Twenty-Nine Lesson Thirty    Defective Verbs    Exercise Thirty Lesson Thirty-One    Ordinal and Other Numbers    Exercise Thirty-One Lesson Thirty-Two    The Imperative    Exercise Thirty-Two Lesson Thirty-Three    The Passive    Exercise Thirty-Three Lesson Thirty-Four    More about Nouns    Exercise Thirty-Four Lesson Thirty-Five    More on the Accusative    Exercise Thirty-Five Lesson Thirty-Six    Conditional Sentences    Exercise Thirty-Six Lesson Thirty-Seven    More about an; 'asa and la'alla    Exercise Thirty-Seven Lesson Thirty-Eight    Special verbs; law-la    Exercise Thirty-Eight Lesson Thirty-Nine    The Energetic; Oaths and Exclamations    Exercise Thirty-Nine Lesson Forty    Special Uses of ma kana;    Verbs of Wonder, Praise and Blame    Exercise Forty Key to the Exercises Technical Terms General Vocabulary

About the Author

Prof Alan Jones has taught Arabic for many years at Oxford and is well known both for his knowledge of the Arabic language and for his work on the Qur'an.

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'An entertaining and valuable companion to any English speaker struggling to read and understand the Qur'an.'