diff --git a/analysis/language/ar/analyzer_ar.go b/analysis/language/ar/analyzer_ar.go
index d05aed22..1d7149af 100644
--- a/analysis/language/ar/analyzer_ar.go
+++ b/analysis/language/ar/analyzer_ar.go
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/blevesearch/bleve/registry"
 
 	"github.com/blevesearch/bleve/analysis/token_filters/lower_case_filter"
+	"github.com/blevesearch/bleve/analysis/token_filters/unicode_normalize"
 	"github.com/blevesearch/bleve/analysis/tokenizers/unicode"
 )
 
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ func AnalyzerConstructor(config map[string]interface{}, cache *registry.Cache) (
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	normalizeFilter := unicode_normalize.MustNewUnicodeNormalizeFilter(unicode_normalize.NFKC)
 	stopArFilter, err := cache.TokenFilterNamed(StopName)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -44,6 +46,7 @@ func AnalyzerConstructor(config map[string]interface{}, cache *registry.Cache) (
 		Tokenizer: tokenizer,
 		TokenFilters: []analysis.TokenFilter{
 			toLowerFilter,
+			normalizeFilter,
 			stopArFilter,
 			normalizeArFilter,
 			stemmerArFilter,
diff --git a/analysis/language/ar/analyzer_ar_test.go b/analysis/language/ar/analyzer_ar_test.go
index 5b4cce36..ecade6b1 100644
--- a/analysis/language/ar/analyzer_ar_test.go
+++ b/analysis/language/ar/analyzer_ar_test.go
@@ -150,6 +150,18 @@ func TestArabicAnalyzer(t *testing.T) {
 				},
 			},
 		},
+		// presentation form normalization
+		{
+			input: []byte("ﺍﻟﺴﻼﻢ"),
+			output: analysis.TokenStream{
+				&analysis.Token{
+					Term:     []byte("سلام"),
+					Position: 1,
+					Start:    0,
+					End:      15,
+				},
+			},
+		},
 	}
 
 	cache := registry.NewCache()