Programmes and resources for teaching Arabic

Textbooks for learning Arabic

Published textbook series and single textbooks for teaching Modern Standard Arabic to non-native speakers, from Saudi Arabia and beyond. Each entry gives the publisher, editions, levels, audience, language of instruction, components, and published evaluation studies.

A listing and description only, not a judgement of quality: we give the facts and do not rate the books; the studies cited are their authors' views. What we could not confirm is marked "not known".

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Arabic at Our Children's Hands

العربيّة بين يدي أولادنا · Arabic for All, Riyadh · Saudi Arabia

  • Editions: 2018
  • Levels: 12 volumes according to the publisher
  • Language of instruction: Arabic
  • Components: Student book with exercises, teacher's book, software, audio and video
For sale From the publisher Publisher's page
School students · 6 books

Arabic for Young Learners

العربيّة للناشئين · Ministry of Education, Riyadh · Saudi Arabia

  • Editions: 1983, later reprinted by other publishers
  • Levels: 6 books
  • Language of instruction: Arabic
  • Components: Pupil's book and teacher's book

For learners aged about 12 to 18. The ministry's printing is out of print.

Studies about it (1)
Out of print Secondary source
Children · 14 stages

I Love Arabic

أحبّ العربيّة · Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States, Riyadh · Saudi Arabia (a Gulf body based in Riyadh)

  • Editions: 1990
  • Levels: 14 stages, from kindergarten to grade 12
  • Language of instruction: Arabic
  • Components: Pupil's book, workbook, teacher's book, tapes, cards and charts, and a picture dictionary
Studies about it (1)
  • طلال المراشدة، «الخصائص اللغوية والنفسية لنصوص الكتاب السادس من سلسلة كتب أحب العربية»، ٢٠٢٣ (published article)
Availability not known Secondary source
School students · Volumes for beginners

Durus al-Lughah al-'Arabiyyah (Gontor)

دروس اللغة العربيّة على الطريقة الحديثة · Imam Zarkasyi and Imam Syubani, Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor · Indonesia

  • Levels: Volumes for beginners
  • Language of instruction: Arabic, by the direct method
  • Components: Student book

Taught in Indonesia's modern Islamic boarding schools.

Studies about it (1)
For sale Secondary source
School students · 3 parts

Al-Qira'a al-Rashida

القراءة الراشدة · Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi · India

  • Editions: Written 1942–1944
  • Levels: 3 parts
  • Language of instruction: Arabic only
  • Components: Graded reading texts

A graded reader for young students of religious schools rather than a full course.

For sale Secondary source

A listing and description, not a judgement of quality. Inclusion rule: an identifiable publisher, a published series or single book, and Modern Standard Arabic. We link only to official pages; a book without one is listed without a link. Most details of the Saudi series come from the 2020 guide to Arabic teaching series published by the King Abdullah International Center for the Arabic Language.