Middle East Language Books

New and Published Books

1. Developing Writing Skills in Arabic

   By Taoufik Ben Amor

   Series: Developing Writing Skills

   Developing Writing Skills in Arabic is specifically designed for upper-intermediate to advanced students who need to write Arabic for personal, professional and academic purposes. Making use of reading comprehension, analysis of stylistic devices, a functional approach to grammar and well-graded...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
2. Egyptian Language (Routledge Revivals)

   Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics

   By E.A. Budge

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the...

   Published November 6th 2012 by Routledge
3. Basic Persian

   A Grammar and Workbook

   By Saeed Yousef, Hayedeh Torabi

   Series: Grammar Workbooks

   Basic Persian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume. This book presents twenty grammar units, covering the core material which students would expect to encounter in their first year of learning Persian. Grammar points are followed...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Introduction to Qur'anic Arabic

   By Munther Younes

   The Routledge Introduction to Qur’anic Arabic is an innovative, text-based, language course designed for students interested in acquiring a foundation in Qur’anic and Classical Arabic. Focused on enhancing comprehension and vocabulary acquisition, the book contains 40 lessons designed to be...

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
5. Arabic Rhetoric

   A Pragmatic Analysis

   By Hussein Abdul-Raof

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   Arabic Rhetoric explores the history, disciplines, order and pragmatic functions of Arabic speech acts. It offers a new understanding of Arabic rhetoric and employs examples from modern standard Arabic as well as providing a glossary of over 448 rhetorical expressions listed in English with their...

   Published February 21st 2011 by Routledge
6. The Oral and the Written in Early Islam

   By Gregor Schoeler, Uwe Vagelpohl, James E. Montgomery

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

   Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and received cultural articulation among the Muslim...

   Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge
7. A Thematic Dictionary of Modern Persian

   By Colin Turner

   Now available in paperback, A Thematic Dictionary of Modern Persian is a reference work unique in the history of English-Persian lexicography. It offers a considerably extended guide to modern everyday Persian vocabulary, arranged by theme. With approximately 25,000 Persian headwords in over...

   Published February 21st 2010 by Routledge
8. Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic

   By Jeffrey Heath

   Series: Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series

   This is a comprehensive study of the Jewish and Muslim dialect networks of Morocco in its traditional boundaries, covering twenty-two Muslim and some thirty Jewish dialects of Moroccan Arabic....

   Published November 19th 2009 by Routledge
9. Arabic in the City

   Issues in Dialect Contact and Language Variation

   Edited by Catherine Miller, Enam Al-Wer, Dominique Caubet, Janet C.E. Watson

   Series: Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series

   Filling a gap in the literature currently available on the topic, this edited collection is the first examination of the interplay between urbanization, language variation and language change in fifteen major Arab cities. The Arab world presents very different types and degrees of urbanization,...

   Published December 19th 2007 by Routledge
10. Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb

    By Maher Bahloul

    Series: Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series

    Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb is a corpus-based study that unveils the morpho-syntax and the semantics of the Arabic verb. Approaches to verbal grammatical categories - the constituents of verbal systems - often rely on either semantic-pragmatic or syntactic analyses. This research...

    Published July 25th 2007 by Routledge