Arabic At Your Hands Series is one program in a collection of programs called “Arabic For All”. This series comprises a developed version of the book “Arabic At Your Hands”, which introduces a comprehensive curriculum for teaching Arabic for non-Arabic speakers, students and teachers. This curriculum is developed for educational entities, including schools, institutes and universities. It begins from the basic level and continues with the students until they master Arabic language, which enables them to join university and continue their Arabic studies in various majors. The developed series is designed by the authors of the original series, who are an academic team specialized in teaching Arabic for non-Arabic speakers.

• Level’s units, books and lessons:
  The second level consists of two parts (books), each of which includes 8 units (total of 16 units). Each unit consists of 13 lessons, constituting a total of 208 basic lessons in this level. The lessons of each unit are organized as follows:
  • Dialogue (1), exercises and vocabularies 2 pages
  • Sounds and exercises 1 page
  • Grammatical notes (1) 1 page
  • Speaking and listening (1) 1 page
  • Comprehension text and vocabularies (1) 2 pages
  • Grammatical notes (2) 2 pages
  • Dialogue (2), exercises and vocabularies 2 pages
  • Grammatical notes (3) 1 page
  • Speaking and listening (2) 1 page
  • Comprehension text and vocabularies (2) 2 pages
  • Grammatical notes (4) 2 pages
  • Expression 2 pages
  • Dictation and handwriting 1 page
  Total of 20 pages per unit


• Tests and Evaluations:
  The second level (book 1 and 2) comprises two types of tests
  1. Short tests: 8 tests after each 2 units.
  2. Extended tests for determining level:
     • Level test at the beginning of this level to determine the student level and measure his ability to begin the second level.
     • Midlevel test (at the end of the first book in this level)
     • Final comprehensive test (at the end of the second book in this level)
  There are no audio records for final and midtrial tests because answers have to be given from the students not the teacher.
  
  At the end of the second level, there are lists of vocabulary used in each unit and another list of all the vocabularies of the level arranged alphabetically. 
  
  

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Teaching language is a critical tool in communication and ultimately in the development of knowledge. In our quest to provide our customers with quality materials, we are pleased to offer the Learn Arabic series. It employs modern methods of teaching foreign language to successfully teach the Arabic language to students in K-12th grade. This series was founded upon the following three fundamentals of teaching languages presented in an Islamic context:

1. Elements: sounds, letters, phrases, and pronunciation
2. Skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening
3. Linguistic Functions: introduction, greetings, description, requests, and apologies.

Series Contents:
The Learn Arabic series consists of textbooks, workbooks, and teacher’s manuals for levels K-12th grade. The textbooks aim to present basic elements of the Arabic language and their functions, while the activity books focus on enrichment material with special emphasis on writing. The teacher’s manuals offer tips on teaching Arabic efficiently with positive results.

Support Material:
Teachers will be pleased with the full array of support materials available, such as a collection of audio records, posters, and cards. These books also include ideas for additional activities, such as chants, competitions, and linguistic plays. All of these materials will help to make each lesson exciting and active for students.

Student Textbook:
The student textbooks are comprised of 24 units: 66 basic lessons of new material, plus an additional 6 units for revision. Each basic unit contains 4 lessons of new material, including dialog text, expressions, and vocabulary, and communication exercises. These units contain conversations, pronunciations and expressions, grammatical structures, listening, reading, thinking, writing, and extra activities, such as selections of Qur’an, hadeeth and nasheed; where the teacher books include a midterm and final test. Answer keys can be found in the teacher's manuals.

Activity Book:
The activity book simply enhance the material found within the student textbooks. They mainly concentrate on writing skills with some review of verbal skills. Each contains many different activities which can be done at school or at home, such as coloring and painting pages; word matches; reading letters and sentences; writing words, letters, and numbers; and answering questions. Some of the activities should be completed at home with a parent to strengthen the relationship between home and school.

This book is an invitation for students to learn about and truly understand the basics and rules of the Islamic systems. It represents a distinctive learning movement for students toward understanding and knowing the group of the Islamic systems that represent the ability and legislative miracles in all areas of human life emanating from our faith in Allah.

This complete Islamic learning series of specialized subjects is directed to children 6 to 16 years of age. It uses a methodical style in presenting and connecting the subject’s information, and includes all Islamic teachings from the Prophet's biography, stories from the Qur'an, and stories of the companions and followers. In addition to learning the Qur'an and Al Hadeeth Al Nabawi Al Shareef doctrine, each book contains twenty different titles written by the top scientists and educational experts in the various Islamic learning fields.

The learning materials included in each book are reinforced by attractive colors and expressive drawings, designed to excite the reader and hold their attention. Each lesson also ends with a number of activities and different questions. This series can be taught in the private schools of Islamic communities, in summer clubs, and in centers for memorizing the Holy Qur'an.

This course was designed to offer young students with a comprehensive Islamic education, comprising general Islamic knowledge based on the Quran and hadith. Instead of teaching moral principles directly, they are taught through themes chosen from the Quran and other Islamic sources.

A major portion of the course comprises the text of the Quran, which is followed by exercises to test the depth of understanding of the students. Though basically intended for use as a school textbook, it is also an ideal tool for homeschooling involving both the parents and the children. In this way, children will not only learn the ethical values conveyed by the message of Islam but will also be stimulated to want to know more about Islamic teachings when they grow up. Features:

• A focus on learning through communication
• Development of critical thinking skills
• Discussions on the culture of the language in an attractive and objective way
• Lessons based on real-life situations
• Islamic themes

Following the beginner series Easy Steps in Arabic, Access to Qur'anic Arabic aids the advanced or adult student in learning the language of the Qur'an. An integrated set of books that cover the basic grammar and structure of Arabic using only Qur'anic words and examples throughout; the books are only available as a set. Based on the premise that most non-Arabs learn the Arabic language primarily to enable their reading of the Qur'an, the author has developed these highly useful and easy to follow guidebooks and accompanying audiotapes. Audiotapes contain the full recording of the selections from the Qur'an. Attractively packaged and very well produced. It is necessary to be able to read Arabic script in order to be able to use this set. 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 un-vowelled Arabic text which can only be read accurately with a good knowledge of Arabic grammar and structure.
3. Access to Qur'anic Arabic – Selections
   This book of annotated Selections from the Qur'an has passages that feature the select vocabulary and illustrate 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. Each of the 110 Selections is recorded on two audio cassettes or two CDs. In the CDs, each Unit is on a separate track.

Or buy individually:

1. Access to Qur'anic Arabic – Textbook
2. Access to Qur'anic Arabic - Workbook

For the first time, the Islamic sciences are put forth in a developed and methodical manner in a series produced and overseen by capable and respected authors and scholars. Enhanced by beautiful, expressive drawings which facilitate the teaching process, and even enable students to learn on their own. The series represents an important step in the field of Islamic studies. A key feature of the series is that the teacher can choose the appropriate level for students' abilities in reading comprehension and understanding.

This Teacher’s - Self-Study Manual contains full explanatory notes in English for each page of the Arabic text of Easy Steps in Qur'an Reading. Each line of the text is numbered to make it easy to follow text and tapes. This is all part of the simple and enjoyable Easy Steps in Arabic Course, the main aim of which is to encourage the regular reading of the Qur'an from an early age and a love for and attachment to the Glorious Book. The course can be used by anyone wishing to read and write the Arabic script. Two Appendices give detailed suggestions on how to use the course and on teaching methods and techniques. There is also a lesson for teaching the course in a ten-day intensive program.
The Complete Set: Complete set of Graded Steps in Qur'an Reading and Arabic Handwriting Course with books, workbooks, CDs and other audiovisual aids for teaching/learning the reading of the Arabic script, rules of Qur'anic recitation based on the 'UTHMANI SCRIPT', and Arabic handwriting. You need to be able to read and write the Arabic script as a base for learning Arabic as a language and for further study of the Qur’an. The Arabic script is phonetically precise and easy to learn and teach. MELS books, charts and audio materials make this process easy and enjoyable. Reading the Qur’an beautifully is both science and art. For the reading of the Arabic script, there is the MELS Starter Pack which includes an Alphabet Poster with an accompanying Alphabet Flashcards Pack. For reading the Qur’an, we recommend Graded Steps in Qur’an Reading which uses the ‘Uthmani script of the Madinah Mus-haf, beautifully written by the Damascene calligrapher, Uthman Taha.
There is a Teacher’s/Self-Study Edition with full explanatory notes in English and a Students’ Edition. Each Unit and each line of text is numbered. This makes it easy to follow recording and text and is particularly helpful for both classroom teaching and individual use. The text is recorded onto CDs. Each Unit is a separate track on the CDs. You can thus go to a Unit and repeat it as often as necessary. The Arabic script is a quintessential part of Islamic art. Learn the basics of calligraphy using the MELS Easy Steps in Arabic Handwriting Workbooks. See how words are formed from individual letters, trace, and copy, compose words and write from dictation. A Summary Chart shows the Arabic letters in all their forms, with Standard English equivalents and as they appear in words.

This course in Modern Standard Arabic concentrates on listening and speaking skills. There is a vocabulary glossary at the end of volume 3 (with meanings in English and French). A supplementary dictionary and translator assistant containing vocabulary for all three books in English, French, Spanish, and German.

Features:

• Ideal for classroom course
• Themed topics covering daily life in Arab world
• Full glossary of vocabulary

This workbook compliments the textbook Living Islam - Prophet of Mercy - The Life Story of Prophet Muhammad (s).

The Prophet Muhammad's biography, or seerah, is a profoundly inspiring story, and there is none like it in history. Many historians and philosophers, including Michael Hart, consider Prophet Muhammad (s) the most important personality throughout the human experience. In his book The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History (1978), Micheal Hart contended, "My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels. Of humble origins, Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world's great religions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, thirteen centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive."

We begin learning the seerah by reading about the Prophet Muhammad in the Qur'an. Then we turn to the most trusted hadeeth in Saheeh-ul-Bukhari, Saheeh Muslim, and other compilations of authentic hadeeth. Next we turn to the reports of Ibn Is-haq, the Seerah book by Ibn Hisham, and the book of Tabaqaat-ul-Kubra by Ibn Sa'd. These are among the most authentic sources of seerah. Other authentic sources include the history books of Imams At-Tabari, Ibn Katheer, Ath-Thahabi, Ibn-ul-Atheer, and other historians. This book is committed to selecting the most authentic reports and narrations of the Prophet Muhammad's life story. It is needless to note that every biography of a great personality includes some unauthentic reports, and that of Prophet Muhammad is no exception. However, we tried our utmost best to present to our learners the most authentic account of the seerah as taken from its best and most authentic sources. The purpose of studying Prophet Muhammad's seerah is not simply to memorize certain dates or events, or to just sit back and enjoy the story.

Knowledge of the seerah is very important in our lives for many reasons that we can summarize in the following:

• Knowing the Prophet's personality will increase our love and respect for him. It builds a better understanding of the Qur'an, because some verses were revealed for certain incidents "seerah in the Qur'an" sections in this book connect the reader with most of the Qur'anic verses that detail seerah events.
• It helps us imitate the Prophet's life and learn to adopt his style of judgment. We can take him as a role model.
• Living Islam sections help the reader to pinpoint the Prophet of Islam's guidance and way of life.
• We can learn the fiqh rules with examples from the Prophet's seerah.
• We come to know some of the companions and their characteristics.
• We begin to understand some of the Arabic terms used in the religion.
• Vocabulary sections throughout the book help introduce the learner to important Islamic and historical terms.
• We learn some lessons from the Prophet's seerah to apply in our lives. "Lessons to Learn" section in every chapter of the books briefs the readers with important life lessons we can learn from the seerah.
• The Prophet's story gives is a practical way to make da'wah (inviting people to Islam).
• The Prophet's life is an excellent example for Muslims of the practical Islamic way of life.
• His life conveys the spirit of the kind merciful father and the wise gentle da'i (the person that invites other people to Islam), who puts all his effort in preaching Islam.
• Indeed, the seerah introduces us to the most beloved and respected leader among his companions. It demonstrates the democracy in Islam, and represents the ideal Muslim society.
• Studying the seerah will expose us to all sides of humanity at its best, represented in the most complete and perfect picture.