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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Arabic script, transliteration and alphabet table | |
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| Pronunciation of consonants | |
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| Punctuation and handwriting | |
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| Vowels | |
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| Sukun, saddah, noun cases and nunation as indefinite form | |
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| Long vowels, 'alif maqsurah, dagger or miniature 'alif, word stress and syllable structure | |
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| Hamzah (hamzatu l-qat'i) and the maddah sign | |
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| Definite article...[Characters not reproducible] 'al..., nominal sentences, verbal sentences, word order and adjectives | |
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| Sun and moon letters, hamzatu l-wasli (waslah) | |
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| Gender | |
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| Conjunctions, prepositions and the particle [Characters not reproducible] hatta | |
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| 'Idafah construction (genitive attribute) and the five nouns | |
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| Number: dual and plural | |
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| Perfect tense verbs, root and radicals, triliteral verbs and word order | |
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| Separate personal pronouns and suffix pronouns | |
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| Demonstrative, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns | |
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| Imperfect tense verb in the indicative and word order | |
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| Derived verb forms (stems), roots and radicals, transitive and intransitive verbs | |
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| Passive verbs | |
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| Rules for writing the hamzah (hamzatu l-qat'i) | |
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| Broken plurals and collective nouns | |
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| Triptotes and diptotes | |
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| Participles, verbal nouns (masdar), nouns of place, time and instrument | |
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| Interrogative particles and pronouns, vocative particles | |
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| Adjectival patterns, relative adjectives (nisbah), comparatives and superlatives, diminutives | |
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| 'Inna [Characters not reproducible] and its sisters, kana [Characters not reproducible] and its sisters | |
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| Relative pronouns and relative clauses | |
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| Moods: subjunctive, jussive (apocopatus) and imperative | |
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| Doubled verbs (mediae geminatae) and quadriliteral verbs | |
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| Verbs with hamzah | |
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| Verbs with a weak initial radical | |
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| Verbs with a weak middle radical | |
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| Verbs with a weak final radical, doubly weak verbs and weak verbs with hamzah | |
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| Cardinal numbers | |
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| Ordinal numbers, fractions, expressions of time and calendars | |
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| Exception | |
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| Verbs of wonder, the negative copula [Characters not reproducible] laysa, verbs with special uses and some special uses of the preposition [Characters not reproducible] bi... | |
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| Adverbs and adverbials, absolute or inner object, hal (circumstantial clause) and tamyiz (accusative of specification) | |
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| Conditional sentences | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Tables of verb forms | |
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| Verb conjugation paradigms | |
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| Index | |