Arabic

Arabic Script in Motion: A Theory of Temporal Text-based Art

by Khajavi, M. Javad

0 Type: Book

This book is a pioneering study of temporal typography and time-based calligraphic art written in the Arabic system of writing. Inspired by the innate qualities of Arabic script as well as certain practices in Islamic calligraphy and contemporary calligraphic art, the book devis…

Arabic Script in Motion: A Theory of Temporal Text-based Art

by Khajavi, M. Javad

0 Type: Book

This book is a pioneering study of temporal typography and time-based calligraphic art written in the Arabic system of writing. Inspired by the innate qualities of Arabic script as well as certain practices in Islamic calligraphy and contemporary calligraphic art, the book devis…

Ethics and poetry in sixth-century Arabia

by Jamil, Nadia

0 Type: Book

A much-needed study of pre-Islamic poetry from Arabia, which fills a key gap in understanding not only the history of Arabian poetry, but also of Arabian ethos and ideology. What emerges is a complex, stylized discourse which reflects a distinctive cosmology.

The teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe

fromHistory of Oriental Studies

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The essays in this volume shed light on how, for what purposes and to what extent the Arabic language was taught and studied by European scholars, theologian, merchants, diplomats and prisoners in early modern Europe.

Alif Baa: introduction to Arabic letters and sounds

by Tūnisī, ʻAbbās, Al-Batal, Mahmoud, Brustad, Kristen

fromAl-Kitaab Arabic Language Program

0 Type: Book

Al-Kitaab Part One is the second book in the Al-Kitaab Arabic language program and is now available in an extensively revised and reorganized third edition. This book with its companion website develops skills in formal and colloquial Arabic, including reading, listening, speaki…

This study examined the beliefs and opinions of U.S university students towards learning foreign languages. Four major areas were explored, including attitudes and motivations towards learning foreign languages, perceptions of foreign languages in the U.S., and favorability of A…

This paper reports the results of a study investigating the extent to which native speakers of American English associate specific personal qualities to native speakers of Arabic based solely on auditory information. 234 participants, recruited through online social networks, he…

Negation is a unique and fascinating property of human language which has been given extensive theoretical and typological treatment. One categorization divides negation use into metalinguistic negation and descriptive negation (Horn, 1985). Descriptive negation (DN) is the trut…