CTAN has a new package: arabicfront

[CTAN Announcements]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Javier Bezos submitted a new package

   arabicfront

to CTAN.

Location: macros/latex/contrib/bezos
License: LPPL
CTAN package page: http://www.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=arabicfront

This package modifies \frontmatter and \mainmatter to number pages in 
arabic style starting from the front matter, while preserving the rest of 
the original definitions.

Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf