"Our beautiful language is ease, not difficulty," said the great Egyptian philologist of the 20th century, Taha Hussein. Arabic, this wonderful language that embraced the ancient Greek heritage within the framework of the great translation movement from Greek to Arabic, with centers in Baghdad and the Iberian Peninsula, in the 8th, 9th, and 10th centuries, is still almost absent from the Greek academic field. Greece, which should reasonably be a pioneer in Arab-Islamic studies and serve as a bridge between the Arab-Islamic world and the West, is still in its early stages in this important branch of studies.
This book aims to contribute to this effort by presenting a basic method of learning Arabic. The absence of an Arabic learning manual from Greek literature has necessitated the variety of the book's goals. In addition to grammar, emphasis is placed on pronunciation, morphology, and production, in order to achieve familiarity with Arabic from the first lessons of the book. The texts provide the basic vocabulary that is useful in various everyday situations. The "Modern Standard" Arabic that one learns from this book is the official language of all Arabic-speaking peoples, it is understood by all of them, and it is the language of all Arabic literature, education, and audiovisual and written media."