Arabic

Kashida
... type of justification used in some cursive scripts, particularly Arabic ... easier and more flexible, however, because Arabic-Persian scripts feature prominent horizontal strokes, whose length is accordingly flexible ... The Unicode standard assigns codepoint U+0640 as "Arabic Tatweel" ...

Islamization - History - Arabization
... influence on a non-Arab area that gradually changes into one that speaks Arabic and/or incorporates Arab culture ... Arabian Muslim conquests which spread the Arabic language, culture, and—having been carried out by Arabian Muslims as opposed to Arab Christians or ...

Arabic Grammar
... Arabic grammar (Arabic نحو عربي‎ naḥw ʿarabī or قواعد اللغة العربية qawāʿid al-luġah al-ʿarabiyyah) is the grammar of the Arabic language ... Arabic is a Semitic language and its grammar has many similarities with the grammar of other Semitic languages ... The article focuses both on the grammar of Literary Arabic (i.e ...

Tafsir - Methodology - Riwaya - Arabic Literature
... The classical Arabic poetry and the text of the Qur'an are two resources which can be used as foundational reference in ascertaining the meaning and signification of the remaining literal and figurative diction ... Using Arabic poetry for defining words is a long used practice, in fact there are nearly no scholars who haven’t used this source ...

Ayman Al-Zawahiri - Alternate Names and Sobriquets
... Rabie al-Zawahiri is pronounced or in Arabic (the latter is in the Classical) ... spelled Zawahri (from the pronunciation in his native Egyptian Arabic), but is sometimes spelled "Dhawahri" if transliterated directly from Modern Standard Arabic, also ... Using the Intelligence Community Standard for the Transliteration of Arabic Names, it is spelled Zawahri ...