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Language and Literature : Jordan

Includes linguistics, online dictionaries, grammars, teaching aids.

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Calligraphy Qalam: An Introduction to Arabic, Ottoman and Persian Calligraphy (http://calligraphyqalam.com/index.html)
This website contains information on the history, various styles, techniques, classes, as well as a gallery of various types of calligraphy in the Arabic script

Jordan: Ethnicity and Language (http://www.photius.com/countries/jordan/society/jordan_society_ethnicity_and_langua~316.html)
Description of ethnic groups in Jordan and their places of origin, data beginning around 1920.

The language (http://www.seejordan.org/experience_culture_language.shtml)
List of commonly used phrases in Jordan.

Princeton University Library's Digital Islamic Manuscript Collection (http://diglib.princeton.edu/xquery?_xq=getCollection&_xsl=collection&_pid=islamic)
Princeton University Library holds approximately 9,500 Islamic manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and other languages of the Muslim world written in Arabic script. The manuscripts date from the 9th to the 19th centuries. 200 of these manuscripts are being digitized for their digital library.

Royal Family Tree (http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/rfamily_hashemites.html)
The Hashemite Family Tree, names highlighted in green are links to biographies of chosen person. (Arabic and English)

 

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