Arabic

Learning Arabic has been part of this journey, not a side project. This is a working list of resources found useful so far — it will grow and change as more are tried. It is not exhaustive, and inclusion here is not an endorsement of every view any given author or organization holds elsewhere.

• Course / Textbook series

  Madinah Arabic Course (Dr. V. Abdur Rahim)

  A widely used three-book grammar course originally developed for the Islamic University of Madinah, taught largely through Arabic itself rather than translation.

• Online tool

  Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com)

  A free, word-by-word grammatical and morphological breakdown of every word in the Qur'an, useful for close reading rather than fluency-building.

• Reference

  Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

  A classical 19th-century lexicon still widely cited for the classical meanings of Qur’anic and hadith vocabulary.

• Reference

  Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic

  The standard modern Arabic-English dictionary, useful alongside classical lexicons for everyday and contemporary usage.

• Course

  Bayyinah / Arabic Without Fear (Nouman Ali Khan)

  A grammar-focused course aimed specifically at unlocking the Qur'anic text for English speakers.