Whether you hate or love it: if you want to buy Arabic books, amazon is not the best place. There are many specialized online book sellers for Arabic books – novels in Arabic, Islamic books, book on Arabic grammar, etc.

Over the years, I have used many of them to fill my personal library. I would like tell you about my experiences, so you may save yourself the hassle. Here are some recommendations.

I recently was in Poznań, Poland, and learned by coincidence that one of the greatest Arab scholars, al-Kindī (الْكِنْدِي), was one of the  pioneers of cryptology .

Answer: You have to  focus on the second “l”  (ل) in Allah (الله). Let’s analyze the so-called Grand Word and derive two rules that are easy to remember.

Recently a reader asked me how he should read a typical grammatical analysis in Arabic grammar books. Reading grammar books in Arabic can be challenging if you cannot decode the language of the grammarians.

But there is good news – there is a formula.

Legend has it that the question of the wasp or hornet, in Arabic:  Masʾala(t) al-Zunbūr  (مَسْأَلة الزُّنْبُور), caused Sībawayhi, the most fa­mous Arabic grammarian, to with­draw and die of anger and grief.