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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Полный курс литературного арабского языка

الدورةُ الكاملة في العربيّة الفصحى · Vladimir Lebedev, VKN, Moscow · Russia

  • Editions: Final stage 2017
  • Levels: Successive stages; the last in two volumes
  • Language of instruction: Russian
  • Components: Authentic texts and exercises
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University students · Single book

Учебник арабского языка (Kovalev & Sharbatov)

كتابُ العربيّة (كوفاليف وشرباتوف) · A. A. Kovalev and G. Sh. Sharbatov, Vostochnaya Literatura, Moscow · Russia

  • Editions: First edition 1960, third 1998
  • Levels: One volume, beginner to intermediate
  • Language of instruction: Russian, comparing the grammar of both languages
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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.