Pocket Guide to Arabic Script

The Middle East and other Arabic speaking regions are of central importance in the world today. This handy booklet, designed to be carried in one’s pocket, presents the basics of reading, writing, and understanding Arabic script. The complexities of reading and writing the characters in the Arabic alphabet are presented clearly, in detail, and with numerous examples. Readers are shown how to write each letter, how to recognize it regardless of its placement in a word, and how each is written in the major styles of Arabic calligraphy. The volume is rounded out with a concise treatment of Arabic word structure and sentence grammar.