Towards Understanding the Quranic Arabic and The Science of Recitingthe Quran

Over the decades, the Quranic Arabic Foundation (QAF), Birmingham, UK and its founder-chairman, Muhammad Ibrahim H. I. Surty, who taught earlier at the University of Birmingham, have been admirably serving the cause of the Qur’an. The highly useful and learner-friendly course devised and delivered by Surty has been successfully conducted at the University of Sokoto, Nigeria, University of Brimingham, UK and since 1982 in Birmingham central mosque, which has benefitted thousands of students. The Manual complemented and supplemented with DVDs and extensive exercises, provides an excellent opportunity for self-study as well. This Manual consists of 16 lessons which are subdivided into 63 units illustrating 92 grammatical rules with the help of a glossary, Qur’anic text and vocabulary. It thus serves as invaluable resource material which may be used with great profit by learners of Qur’anic Arabic. More importantly, since the course is built around the Qur’anic text, it enables learners to develop more familiarity with and better comprehension of the Qur’anic text. Non-Arabic speaking readers who are keen on grasping the meaning and message of the Qur’an would do well to draw upon this Manual. It can help them better to benefit from an English translation of the Qur’an. The author has painstakingly culled all illustrations and tasks from the Qur’anic text. This familiarises readers better with the Arabic text of the Qur’an. Another achievement of the author consists in having covered all the major rules of Arabic grammar, particularly the different tenses.