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- Cover
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Chapter 1: Wrapping Your Mind around the Characters of the Arabic Alphabet
- A Brief History of the Arabic Language and Its Alphabet
- What? No Vowels?
- Connecting the Different Forms of the Letters
- Why Learn to Write Arabic?
- Strategies for Learning to Write Arabic Letters
- Chapter 2: The Write Stuff
- Traditional Writing Utensils and Mediums
- Your Best Options — Pencil and Paper
- A Fountain of Fonts
- There’s More than One Way to Write
- Long Live Cursive Writing!
- Chapter 3: Characters and Symbols to Practice
- أَلِف • ’alif
- باء • baa’
- تاء • taa’
- ثاء • thaa’
- جيم • jiim
- حاء • haa’
- خاء • khaa’
- دال • daal
- ذال • dhaal
- راء • raa’
- زاي • zaay
- سين • siin
- شين • shiin
- صاد • saad
- ضاد • daad
- طاء • taa’
- ظاء • DHaa’
- عين • ‘ayn
- غين • ghayn
- فاء • faa’
- قاف • qaaf
- كاف • kaaf
- لام • laam
- ميم • miim
- نون • nuun
- هاء • haa’
- تاء مربوطة • taa’ marbuuta
- واو • waaw
- ياء • yaa’
- ألف مكسورة • ’alif maksuura
- همزة • hamza
- The Short Vowels الحركات
- Additional Symbols
- The Long Vowels حروف المدّ
- Phrases in Arabic
- The Numbers الأعداد
- Appendix: Extra Practice Pages
- About the Author
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement
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