MAFATIH AL'ARABIYYA ""the keys to Arabic" a collection developed and published by the European Institute of Human Sciences in Paris (IESH in Paris). » . Designed by IESH teachers with many years of experience in teaching the Arabic language, it is intended for non-Arabic speaking adults.

By combining simplicity with efficiency, this series is intended to be practical, didactic and complete. Indeed, the method chosen is the "direct" method, that is to say, the teaching of Arabic without resorting to an intermediate language and the texts offered are characterized by their linguistic richness and their thematic variety.

The first lessons are aimed at the acquisition of writing and reading: the “letter-word-sentence-text” progression is preferred for educational reasons.
Throughout the lessons, the vocabulary of everyday life is added to the grammar lessons in order to give learners the keys necessary for the oral and written practice of the Arabic language.

This collection includes four books.

The second book is entitled “texts and grammar” (nusus wa qawa'id, level 1).