Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step. Level 3 books introduce the concept of the 'story', and include simple phonic sounds and very high-frequency words with simple spellings.A little Arab bo...
Trace Arabic Letters Arabic Writing Alphabet Workbook
by Muhammad Badr-Aldeen
The Sultan's Sex Potions
by Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi and Nasir al-Din al-Tusi,Muhammad ibn Muhammad
Arabic erotic literature has a long and rich history, which goes back as far as the ninth century. Far from being the pursuit of prurient pornographers, eroticism and sexuality received considerable attention from scholars. Written by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201 - 1274), one of the leading scientists of the age, 'The Sultan's Sex Potions' is part of a relatively small group of works devoted to aphrodisiacs, as well as sexual stimulants, sexual practices and positions. Sober and measured in tone,...
Words and Sounds Big Book (Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme)
Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step. Level 2 books introduce simple one- and two-syllable words for children to read based on key syllables and phonic patterns. Word pairs are shown in very short co...
Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar and The Influence of Gesenius (Kiraz Historical Grammars Archive, #9)
by The late E. Kautzsch
Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar is an essential reference tool for any student of classical Hebrew. Apart from the thorough explanation given to each aspect of grammar and syntax, this volume contains an exhaustive scriptural index which leads the user directly to passages that stand as examples of difficult constructions. A full paradigm of the Hebrew verb is also included.
Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624) (The History of Oriental Studies, #6)
by Robert Jones
From the first Arabic grammar printed at Granada in 1505 to the Arabic editions of the Dutch scholar Thomas Erpenius (d.1624), some audacious scholars - supported by powerful patrons and inspired by several of the greatest minds of the Renaissance - introduced, for the first time, the study of Arabic language and letters to centres of learning across Europe. These pioneers formed collections of Arabic manuscripts, met Arabic-speaking visitors, studied and adapted the Islamic grammatical traditio...
Helper Bird (Collins Big Cat) (Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme)
by Anita Ganeri
This little bird may be small, but it's very helpful to bigger animals. This photographic non-fiction book shows how the bird is able to help the larger animals around it, set against the stunning backdrop of Africa. Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural languageChildren can recap the different ways the bird can help other animals on pages 14-15.Text type: A simple non-fiction bookCurriculum links: Citizenship: Animals and usThis book has been quizzed for Acce...
Reise-Sprachfuhrer Arabisch fur Dummies (Fur Dummies)
by Amine Bouchentouf
Sargonic Texts in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Materials for the Assyrian Dictionary, #5)
by I J Gelb
This volume presents transliterations of texts in the Ashmolean Museum, most of which are from Kish and Umm-el-Jir, near Kish. A few texts of unknown origin have also been included. The majority of these tablets are standard administrative texts such as are found in other great collections of Sargonic texts from Gasur, the Diyala region, Lagash, and Susa. A small but important group of texts consists of contracts or memos concerning contractual agreements. Other types of texts are also represent...
Lisan Al-Arab, 9 (Neue Beihefte Zur Wiener Zeitschrift Fur die Kunde Des Morge, #9)
Animal Migration (Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme)
by Deborah Chancellor
Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step. Level 13 books feature longer and more complex sentence structures. Sentences make use of a wide range of stylistic features which reflect progression in the teaching of A...
The Monster Under the Bed (Collins Big Cat) (Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme)
by Kevin Dyer and Sarah Horne
Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level Ben's feeling sick, or at least that's what he says. Really, he doesn't want to see his friend Vince. But when he finds a monster under his bed he has an idea – the two swap identities for the day, with hilarious results! This play, by Kevin Dyer, in partnership with Polka Theatre, explores familiar issues and will work wonderfully in performance. Lime/Band 11 books have longer sentence structures and...
Avicenna's Theory of Science (Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship, #4)
by Riccardo Strobino
Avicenna is the most influential figure in the intellectual history of the Islamic world. This book is the first comprehensive study of his theory of science, which profoundly shaped his philosophical method and indirectly influenced philosophers and theologians not only in the Islamic world but also throughout Christian Europe and the medieval Jewish tradition. A sophisticated interpreter of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, Avicenna takes on the ambitious task of identifying conditions of cer...
Latino-Punic Epigraphy (Forschungen Zum Alten Testament 2.Reihe, #42)
by Robert M Kerr
The twelve stories collected here are by leading authors of the short story form in the Middle East today. In addition to works by writers already well-known in the West such as "Idwar al-Kharrat", "Fuad al-Takarli" and Nobel Prize-winning "Naguib Mahfouz", the collection includes stories by key authors whose fame has hitherto been restricted to the Middle East. This bilingual reader is ideal for students of Arabic as well as lovers of literature who wish to broaden their appreciation of the wo...
This novel, written originally in Arabic, takes the reader through the emotional and political upheavals that beset Algeria from the 1940s to the 1980s by following the paths of two of the emerging nation's new leaders, the one a militant artist, the other a young fiction writer.