Wightwick, Jane

Mastering Arabic script : a guide to handwriting Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar - London : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005. - ix, 116 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Palgrave Macmillan master series .

Introduction.- PART 1: BASIC LETTER SHAPES Units 1-3 Extra: Vowel and Doubling Signs Units 4-6 Extra: Long Vowels Units 7-9 Extra: Hamza Units 10-13 Extra: Numbers Units 14-16.- PART 2: LETTER COMBINATIONS Units 17-21.- PART 3: WRITE ON! ACTIVITIES FOR FURTHER PRACTICE.- PART 4: ARABIC ALPHABET SUMMARY TABLE.

This textbook is an engaging, highly illustrated guide to learning handwriting as opposed to the printed form of the Arabic script. The book teaches Arabic handwriting in the form universally used by adult native speakers (riq'a) and compares it with naskh, the usual printed form.

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Writing, Arabic--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

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