You are right: <code>if condition then True else False</code> is the same as <code>condition</code>.
Not only that, you could further rewrite most ifs, elifs and elses into more readable ors and ands expressions.

But first you should have good automated tests with good coverage for various cases.
Second, I think there are a lot of unused code in PyArabic and porbably in many other parts of alfanous project.

I think we should first decide what we want from a project, for example what is the purpose of PyArabic.
If it is merely to use Arabic_Statistics, then we should extract the couple of functions we are using from araby and put them in a separate file with better tests and docs.

Then we do the same for all the system.