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Title: 201 Arabic Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Forms by Raymond P. Scheindlin ISBN: 0-8120-0547-3 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: April, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Aboo Imraan's review of 201 Arabic Verbs
Comment: Many students of Arabic are intimidated by this book because it was geared towards the intermediate and advanced Arabic student. However there are more pros to this book than cons. If you really are serious about learning Sarf (The science of how Arabic verbs are conjugated) then step up and study away with this book. The book was arranged in perfect order begining with all verbs begining with the Alif all the way to the verbs that begin with Yaa, the book is also arranged with a description of what verb type you are using and how it is conjugated in all its forms. I was very impressed with this book and whenever I teach or need to look up a word and how to conjugate it correctly I still come back to this book time and time again! For the beginners I say do not be intimidated, purchase the book and study! study! study! You will be suprised at how strong you will become in learning how to conjugate the Arabic verbs...I took a notebook and went a step further and created a Wazan type form of the book that conjugated the verbs based on the type for example I have all the Form 1's listed in one section, the Form 2's listed in another like this until I copied the whole book out! I also found it helpful to use with learning the way the Arabic verbs are conjugated in my study and memorization of the Quraan. May Allah make it easy for the students of knowledge in thier studies.
Rating: 3
Summary: Useful but only for the already knowledgeable student
Comment: This book gives you the conjugation tables for 201 verbs as it says, but be forewarned, you will already need to be fully conversant with the grammar and Arabic verbs in general to use it. The verbs aren't even given phonetic equivalents in the tables. So this is basically only for the advanced or perhaps intermediate student. For the price, I don't see why some basic information on Arabic verb conjugations, verb patterns and grammar couldn't have been provided, as in the other 501 and 201 verb books from Barron's. The 501 books, for example, often have 20 or 30 pages of material on this, serving at least as a good review for the experienced and a pretty good introduction for the neophyte.
On the pro side, however, the index is organized according to verb categories and conjugational patterns. So if, for example, you need to look up the pattern for verbs with initial, medial, or final hamza, doubly weak verbs, geminate, or quadriliteral verbs, or any of the other verb categories, along with the 10 conjugational patterns themselves, you can find them in the index and then go right to that pattern in the text. The complete verb table and pattern is displayed, so if you need to find out what the imperfect subjunctive or jussive is, it's all there.
If you're going to use this book and aren't at least an intermediate student yet, I can recommend the Arabic Verbs and Essentials of Grammar book by Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, which will help you fill in all the gaps. There are other grammars out there, but if you have some grammatical and linguistic background, the E. H. Parker book, Simplified Grammar of Hindustani, Persian, and Arabic, although now 120 years old and resissued by Dover Press, is still surprisingly good and a great bargain (at eight dollars) for the price.
Rating: 1
Summary: Very limited
Comment: I agree with most of the other reviewers - this book is of limited use and a disappointment. It gives detailed conjugation of representative verbs but no list of other verbs which follow the representative patterns. It assumes you have the Wehr Dictionary handy in order to figure it all out. It was obviously intended for specialist use - if so why promote it so widely. Oh yeah - caveat emptor: it also has errors. A much more useful and cheaper book is Arabic Verbs and Essential Grammar by John Mace who packs a wealth of information into a small volume.
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Title: Arabic Verbs and Essentials of Grammar: A Practical Guide to the Mastery of Arabic by Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar ISBN: 0844246050 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic by Hans Wehr, J. Milton Cowan ISBN: 0879500034 Publisher: Spoken Language Services Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Concise Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage by N.S. Doniach, Safa Khulusi ISBN: 0198643217 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1982 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Arabic by Norma Shapiro, Jayme Adelson-Goldstein ISBN: 0194361977 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Your First 100 Words in Arabic : Beginner's Quick & Easy Guide to Demystifying Non-Roman Scripts by Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar, NTC Publishing Group, NTC ISBN: 0844223956 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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