Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient world as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic manuscript kept ...

10 facts about Arabic. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Arabic with audio.

Islamic calligraphy and illustrated manuscripts have been highly prized for millennia. The Qur'an, God's word as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, was transmitted in the Arabic language. Initially, ...

The abjad is a numeral system in which the first of the 28-letter Arabic alphabet "alif" represents 1, and the second letter "baa" is 2 up to 9. The other letters stand for nine intervals of 10s ...