Alan Jones Arabic Through the Qur'an

350 Pages·2011·4.31 MB·English

Alan Jones
Arabic Through
Qur’an
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ARABIC THROUGH
THE Q U R ' AN
ALAN JONES
THE ISLAMIC TEXTS SOCIETY

ARABIC THROUGH
THE Q U R ' AN
Alan Jones
THE ISLAMIC TEXTS SOCIETY
Copyright © Alan Jones 2005
This edition published 2005 by
THE ISLAMIC TEXTS SOCIETY
22A Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 2DQ, UK
Reprinted 2006
ISBN-13: 978 0946621 67 5 cloth
ISBN-13: 978 0946621 68 2 paper
ISBN-IO: 0946621 67 5 cloth
ISBN-IO: 0946621 68 3 paper
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Contents
Acknowledgement xiii
Introductory Note xiv
The Arabic Alphabet i
Lesson One
Nouns and Adjectives 7
Exercise One 14
Lesson Two
Plurals 16
Exercise Two 20
Lesson Three
The Declension of Nouns 22
Exercise Three 28
Lesson Four
Prepositions 30
Exercise Four 33
Lesson Five
The First Person Singular Genitive Suffix
and the Pronoun of Separation 35
Exercise Five 37
Lesson Six
Demonstratives 39
Exercise Six 42
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ARABIC THROUGH THE QUR'AN
Lesson Seven
Idafa 44
Exercise Seven 48
Lesson Eight
The Perfect Tense 50
Exercise Eight 55
Lesson Nine
Pronominal suffixes 57
Exercise Nine 61
Lesson Ten
The particle ma 63
Exercise Ten 68
Lesson Eleven
Kull; bacd; the accusative of time 70
Exercise Eleven 73
Lesson Twelve
Kana; quia; lammd 75
Exercise Twelve 80
Lesson Thirteen
The Dual 82
Exercise Thirteen 85
Lesson Fourteen
Cardinal Numbers 86
Exercise Fourteen 92
Lesson Fifteen
Derived Forms of the Verb 93
Exercise Fifteen 97
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Contents
Lesson Sixteen
The Imperfect 99
Exercise Sixteen 103
Lesson Seventeen
Interrogatives 105
Exercise Seventeen no
Lesson Eighteen
The Subjunctive 112
Exercise Eighteen 119
Lesson Nineteen
Inna 121
Exercise Nineteen 125
Lesson Twenty
The Jussive 127
Exercise Twenty 130
Lesson Twenty-One
Laysa; idh; idha; man 132
Exercise Twenty-One 137
Lesson Twenty-Two
Verbs with a hamza as one of their Radicals 139
Exercise Twenty-Two 142
Lesson Twenty-Three
Relative Sentences 144
Exercise Twenty-Three 149
Lesson Twenty-Four
Assimilated Verbs 151
Exercise Twenty-Four 153
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