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uran is a unique book and its history and compilation is a fascinating study. So is the development and codification of Arabic language and grammar. This website deals with essentials of classical Arabic and Qur’anic recitation. For classical Arabic grammarians, the grammatical sciences are divided into five branches:

• al-ishtiqāq اَلاشْتِقَاق (etymology) examining the origin of the words.
• al-lughah اَللُّغَة (lexicon) concerned with collecting and explaining vocabulary.
• at-taṣrīf اَلتَّصْرِيف (morphology) determining the form of the individual words.
• an-naḥw اَلنَّحْو (syntax) primarily concerned with inflection (i‘rāb).
• al-balāghah اَلْبَلَاغَة (rhetoric) which elucidates stylistic quality, or eloquence.

Then there is Arabic Phonology or Tajweed as it is applied to the Quran.

Modern Standard Arabic has 28 consonant phonemes and 6 vowel phonemes or 8 or 10 vowels in most modern dialects. All phonemes contrast between “emphatic” (pharyngealized) consonants and non-emphatic ones. Some of these phonemes have coalesced in the various modern dialects, while new phonemes have been introduced through borrowing or phonemic splits. A “phonemic quality of length” applies to consonants as well as vowels.