Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection

Arabic Language

• Arabic Study Programs in the Arab World [MESA]
• Bibliography of Lexicographic and Etymological Resources for Arabic
  
• Digital Dialects, Arabic
• Arab Academy
• Islamic Calligraphy (Blog: learning Arabic, study abroad programs in Egypt, Arabic calligraphy, Arabic courses, Arabic language, Arabic online, Arab culture, Arab history, Arab women, Islam and Travel to Egypt).
• Arabic Calligraphy
• Write your name in Arabic calligraphy
• Arabic News Aggregator
• Eurabic vs Arabic A talk about the Dutch Role in Middle Eastern Arabic printing " Western scholars of Islam have a tradition of writing and printing Arabic in a mixture of styles enriched with fantasy constructions. This produced a new kind of script, Eurabic, while in the Middle East typography for Islamic scripts only gained wide acceptance following Ohannis Mühendisoğlu’s successful adhering to Arabic script grammar with stylistic consistency. In the 20th century, superior Western technology was exclusively geared to Eurabic, and as a result it gained a powerful foothold in the Middle Eastern market. Computer technology adapted Eurabic rather than Arabic, which led to a sudden prominence of Eurabic to the detriment of Arabic.  Eurabic script is now well-established and can be considered almost a separate branch in the family of Semitic scripts. As the demand for script grammar-driven Arabic remains, technical support for it on the computing platform is growing steadily. As a result Arabic and Eurabic now exist side by side."
• Battling to Preserve Arabic From English's Onslaught / By D. D. GUTTENPLAN. NYT article on improving native speakers' Arabic. Published: June 11, 2012
• Thesaurus d'Epigraphie Islamique. The goal of the Thesaurus d'Epigraphie Islamique is to bring together all of the inscriptions in Arabic, Persian and Turkish (as well as in other "small" languages) from the Muslim world up to the year 1000 of the Hegira. The Thesaurus d'Epigraphie Islamique is a vital resource for historians, art historians and other specialists of the region.

• Digital Dialects, Arabic (interactive games for acquiring Arabic vocabulary)
• Scholarly articles for Arabic Dialects
• Arabic Course
• Map of Arabic dialects (The Gulf blog)
• Egyptian Romanized Arabic: A Study of Selected Features from Communication Among Egyptian Youth on
  Facebook / Jan Arild Bjørnsson (Thesis for the degree of Master of Arts in the field of Arabic language (60 credits)
  UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, November 2010

• ElixirFM (can conjugate verbs as well as derive participles and masdars. The conjugation/inflection mode is not limited to verbs, you can in  fact inflect also nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals, and some prepositions. ElixirFM can be also used as a dictionary or as a  morphological analyzer of Arabic texts; click the ElixirFM  Inflect mode. The screen will show an example query. In the right  field, you can specify the Arabic citation form of the word you want  to inflect. You can even write down the English translation of the  word you are interesed in. It is possible to input the Arabic script  using an intuitive Latin transcription (click on the Yamli icon for  more help).
  The left field of the form indicates what morphological parameters you  are interested in. You can use common linguistic names for them, such  as 'perfect' or 'indicative', or use abbreviations, like 'perf' or  'ind'. The parameters that you leave unrestricted will be iterated  over, so you can easily obtain whole paradigms of inflected word 
  forms. The default example says 'perfect active third imperative', which will  give you all third person perfective active verb forms and all  imperative verb forms. You can modify this easily to relax or restrict  the space of inflectional parameters according to your needs).
• Arabic Grammar Tools
• Verb Chart
• Qutrub قطرب
• ACON أكون
• A Python Library for Arabic Word Tagging (Naftawayh is a python library for Arabic word tagging (word 
  classification) into types (nouns, verbs, stopwords), which is useful in  language processing, especially for text mining. Naftawayh works  according to the Arabic word structure, and the ability to guess the  word class, through certain signs).
• An Eleven Century Précis of Arabic Ortography (Wadad Al-Qadi (Hrsg.): Studia arabica & islamica: Festschrift für Ihsan Abbas on his sixtieth birthday. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1981, S. 165-182.)
• The Phonology of Classical Arabic Meter / Chris Golston & Tomas Riad.
• Arabic Concordance tool : aConcorde is a multi-lingual concordance tool. Originally developed for native Arabic concordance, it posses basic concordance functionality, as well as English and Arabic interfaces. Written in Java, so will run on any platform that has the Java Runtime Environment installed.
  

• Al-Kitab:
  • Detailed schedules, lesson plans, activities, and sample exams for the 10 units in Alif Baa, 3rd edition.
  • Provides detailed schedules, lesson plans, activities, and sample exams for the first 12 lessons in Al-Kitaab, part I, Third Edition.
  • Provides detailed schedules, lesson plans, activities, and sample exams for the first 12 lessons in Al-Kitaab, part I, Third Edition.
• Arabization / EduMagic
• Arab cultures for advanced students / Arabic Online is a resource page for multimedia language learning materials. This portal provides access to full instructional units offering authentic texts and audio/video excerpts with self graded comprehension questions. The materials are free to use and no registration is needed. Simply choose one of the courses below and you can get started!
• Arabic Tutor
• http://afl.sakhr.com/
• Toronto Shariah Program
• Hypercard Stack for Learning Arabic Language
• How to Learn Arabic
• My Arabic Teacher™
• Arabic language study programs
• Arabic Language Programs (USA)
• The Arabic Language Institute in Fez (ALIF)
• The ArabAcademy: "world's leading provider of onlineArabic language courses and proficiency tests"
• Arabesk studies in Damascus
• Modern Language Center in Tunisisa
• Arabic Course Online
• Falooka العربية [Prev. Arabic Complete project]
• Arabic Online A resource page for multimedia language learning materials. This portal provides access to full instructional units offering authentic texts and audio/video excerpts with self graded comprehension questions. The materials are free to use and no registration is needed. Simply choose one of the courses below and you can get started!
  
  • Advanced Standard Arabic I (Arab Cultures)
  • Advanced Standard Arabic II (Arab Cultures)
  • Advanced Egyptian Arabic I (The Cultures of Egypt)
• The research group of Arabic --- Leuven Language Institute.
• SchoolArabia.
• Fun with Arabic
• Arab Academy offers online courses in Modern standard Arabic, Colloquial Arabic and Quran
• Center Sidi Bou Said for Languages (Tunisia)
• Arabic Proficiency Tests / Professor Rammuny. The Center for Applied Linguistics
• Arab Thought Foundation ( includes teacher training videos for Arabic language teachers all free of charge)
• Arabic Graded Readers Arabic reading comprehension skills contains FREE downloadable audio recordings of the complete text of each book in the series, as well as extra activities and resources.
• Arabic Oral Proficiency: A Guide for Students The Center for Applied Linguistics recently released a free online tutorial that helps high school and university-level students of Modern Standard Arabic understand and improve their oral proficiency. It teaches students how oral proficiency is rated according to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines so that they can self-assess and set language learning goals. The tutorial features authentic examples of students speaking Arabic at different levels, tips and resources to improve oral proficiency, and student descriptions of their experiences being assessed and then using their Arabic to communicate abroad.
• LiveLingua.com [Free 60 Minute Trial Arabic Lesson With Skype]
  

• An Explanation about Arabic Character Sets
•  BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TRADITIONAL ARABIC TYPE.
• Sakkal: Arabic and Islamic Art, Arabic Calligraphy, Graphic and Web Design, Clip Art, Computer Illustration
• Yamli - Arabic Search Engine and Smart Arabic Keyboard (Yamli lets you unlock the Arabic web without needing an Arabic keyboard. Just type it the way you say it!)
• Arabic Keyboard ™ (online editor to write or search in arabic if u don't have arabic keyboard)
• Arabic Keyboard - online - LEXILOGOS
• i2arabic, smart online Arabic keyboard that lets you type Arabic as you pronounce it using English letters.
  For example, it will convert
• Muftah-Alhuruf - Arabic Virtual Keyboard (This online form enables users to compose e-mails in the Arabic alphabet while using western keyboards)
• Arabic Keyboard Layout (How to install and use Arabic keyboard input (MS101 (QWERTY) IME) on Windows XP and Windows 2000)
• Arabic MAC Keyboard - Microsoft Corporation
• Arabic Alphabet website
• Arabic for Windows
• Write your name in Arabic calligraphy

• الخط

• The American Association of Teachers of Arabic
• Arabic Study Programs in the Arab World [MESA]
• Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) (The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies)
• Arab Thought Foundation ( includes teacher training videos for Arabic language teachers all free of charge)

Middle East & Islamic Studies, http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/

Ali Houissa, The Middle East & Islamic Studies Bibliographer.