This book is painstaking result of two decades of research, study and application. Its unique quality is that starting with the alphabets, it takes the student in easy 90 steps right up to the classical writings of Qurtubi, Ibn Taymayyah, Ghazali, Sayyid Qutb and others. Never before in Arabic course has had such variety of material under one program. It is already in use as a course-book in several Islamic centers and one institution an India.About the AuthorSyed Iqbal Zaheer, a mechanical engineer by training and profession, is today a well-known researcher and writer on Islam, its culture and civilization. Quite apart from the Tafsir Ishraq al-Ma'ani, the fourteen-volume commentary on the Qur'an, he is also the author of numerous books and booklets on Islam.Note: The original books came with DVDs to assist the learner. I unfortunately do not have the DVDs for this text.