Arabic Books and Resources

Arabic-English Dictionaries

As you'll soon discover, different Arabic books require different Arabic dictionaries. Please click to read this general overview of Arabic-English Dictionaries before reading the individual book reviews below.

Hans Wehr: A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic	J. G. Hava: Arabic-English Dictionary for Advanced Learners
E. Lane: Arabic-English Lexicon (Lane's Lexicon)

Arabic-Arabic Dictionaries

For more sophisticated Arabic books, and for more advanced learners, using the following dictionaries is recommended. Please click to read this general overview of Arabic-Arabic Dictionaries before reading the individual book reviews below.

al-Mu'jam al-Wasīṭ	Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ
al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ

Arabic Textbooks

Please click to read this general overview of Arabic Textbooks before reading the individual book reviews below.

Haywood and Nahmad: A new Arabic Grammar of the Written Language	W Wright: A Grammar of the Arabic Language
G W Thatcher: Arabic Grammar of the Written Language	W Fischer: A Grammar of Classical Arabic
A S Tritton: Teach Yourself Arabic

Ulama (Muslim Scholars)

Websites of prominent Arabic-speaking Muslim Scholars which have a large multimedia content. Please note that Arabic-Studio.com does not necessarily endorse the views of any of the scholars linked to; this resource is being highlighted here solely for educational purposes - to allow students to lsiten to and to read Arabic online.

Arabic Media

Useful Arabic media sites to practice your listening skills. News media can present a particularly difficult challenge as the spoken Arabic is very rapid, but the payoffs for mastering the ability to take in that information are equally high.