archaic-stranger: the arabic studentselegant calligraphy spilling across a pagelearning to write in
archaic-stranger: the arabic studentselegant calligraphy spilling across a pagelearning to write in the naskh styleexamining the language of the Quran, admiring the harmony of each phrasebrightly colored tiles, mosaics that fascinate the eyepages of new vocabulary scattered around your roomreading myths of jinn and ghulsconjugating verbs, carefully assembling root consonants with the proper vowel pattern recognizing arabic loan words in other languagesheavy textbooks with highlighter marks on every pagethe taste of dates and spiced coffee knafeh with pistachios that melts on your tonguecopying a phrase dozens of times until each curve is perfectcenturies-old scientific treatises, discussions of principles that are still applicable todaythe delicate notes of a luterepeating noun declensions under your breathtaking a stack of flashcards everywhere you goa love for the sounds of a new languageghazal love poems with words you can feel deep in your chestsearching for arabic translations of your favorite booksstudying the influence of ancient Arab scholars on modern science and philosophy -- source link