Description
The Gateway to Arabic Handwriting Book has been written as part of the Gateway to Arabic series with a view to giving students the opportunity to learn, practise and acquire proficiency in a fluid style of Arabic handwriting. It is recommended that students should already have completed at least Book One of the Gateway series and be familiar with the Arabic alphabet before embarking upon this book. Although a number of handwriting styles are used in the Middle East, the style taught in this book, namely ruqah, is the most widespread and the easiest to learn. Compared to the printed style of Arabic, which is termed naskh, ruqah offers the advantage of being much quicker to write. The book has been organised so that identical naskh and ruqah texts appear on facing pages for ease of comparison and contrast. The first section sets out the letters of the Arabic alphabet in all their forms: initial, medial, final and isolate. The precise direction and sequence of pen movements for each letter have been clearly indi
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