I would steer away from anything by non-Arabs. Get one of those 'beginners guide to the Oud' or something like that. You've asked an incredibly vague question, by the way, what with Arabic scales/ modes having as many interpolations as (so-called) 'Western' scales - my theory isn't great, and I don't have any of the records you mentioned, but I suspect that both are a mode of a natural minor rather than particularly 'Arabic'.
It's a big world. Check the 'world music' thread. Loads of shizzle in there.
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