A is for Allah

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Summary: allah is cool
Review: A is for Allah is an excellent and professionally produced resource book for children (ages 10 and up) wanting to learn more about Islam.

A is for Allah uses the well established Alphabet approach to introduce an important Islamic topic for each letter of the Arabic alphabet. Topics covered include: Allah, Bismillah, Jannah, Hajj, 'Ilm and Kalimah.

Although the book stands well on its own, I would also suggest purchasing the accompanying audio cassette or CD.

Highly recommended.

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Summary: This book grows with the reader's skills
Review: A well researched and presented book that grows with the young redears' sklls. Target age-group: 4 -8 years.

At the top of each page, the book prints an Arabic letter of the Alphabet and the English transliteration of an Arabic word that starts with the letter. Besides, each page contains beautiful photographs, Islamic calligraphies, translations of Qur'anic verses, lyrics of the songs -- that are recorded in the CD and audio -- that correspond to the associated Arabic word. The tapescripts are given in each page, too. I find the colour combination (different in each page) to be most attractive. It is very clear that the Arabic words are chosen very carefully so as to instil God-consciousness in the readers' mind.

However, I bought it for my 9-month-old baby, particularly because of my intention to teach her the Arabic as a second language (none of my family members speaks Arabic). At that time, my baby and I used to take out the book almost everyday, treating it just as a picture book, while I would point to each Arabic letter and concentrated on the phonics only. By 15 months of age, she was not only able to recognise all letters in printed format (even when shown in random) and pronounce all of them, but also recognise them in HANDWRITING, plus mention of other Arabic words that started with the letter.

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Summary: An amazing resource for Muslim parents and children
Review: As an American Muslim, I have always been dismayed at the lack of learning tools that are available to Muslim children growing up in the Western world. Yusuf Islam has helped fill this void with the creation of this book and especially the CD or tapes that can be bought seperately.

My kids love this, and believe it or not, adults will too.

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Summary: allah is cool
Review: this was a great book. i really liked it. it teaches me about islam.