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  2. Al-Waqi'a - Wikipedia

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    Page from the Qur'an manuscript with the fragment of the surah Al-Waqi'a. Kufic script, North Africa, 10th century. Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Right-hand half of a double-page frontispiece of the Mamluk Qur'an with verses 75-77 of the surah Al-Waqi'a in kufic script.

  3. Qur'anic punctuation - Wikipedia

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    Each chapter consists of a number of verses . Verses are numbered at the end inside the full stop sign. A chapter may additionally be divided into sections (ruku' ركوع). The end of a section is shown by an 'ayn ع sign. The mushafs are also divided into thirty equal parts , for those who wish to finish the recitation in a given time. These ...

  4. English translations of the Quran - Wikipedia

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    For many years, it was the scholarly standard for English translations. The Holy Qur'an: Arabic Text and English Translation (1990) was the first translation by a Muslim woman, Amatul Rahman Omar. The Noble Quran: Meaning With Explanatory Notes (2007) by Taqi Usmani is the first English translation of the Quran ever written by a traditionalist ...

  5. Principles of Islamic jurisprudence - Wikipedia

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    The transformations of Islamic legal institutions in the modern era have had profound implications for the madhhab system. [21] Legal practice in most of the Muslim world has come to be controlled by government policy and state law, so that the influence of the madhhabs beyond personal ritual practice depends on the status accorded to them ...

  6. Mushaf - Wikipedia

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    Mushaf (Arabic: مُصْحَف, romanized: muṣḥaf, IPA:; plural مَصَاحِف, maṣāḥif) is an Arabic word for a codex or collection of sheets, but also refers to a written copy of the Quran. [1]

  7. Classical Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic (Arabic: العربية الفصحى, romanized: al-ʻArabīyah al-Fuṣḥā, lit. 'the most eloquent classic Arabic') is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages, most notably in Umayyad and Abbasid literary texts such as poetry, elevated prose and oratory, and is also the liturgical language of Islam.

  8. Waaqeffanna - Wikipedia

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    The main religious belief of Waaqeffanna is that Waaqa (the creator) is the creator of the universe and has many manifestations known as Ayyaana. [8] The Ayyaana serve as intermediary spirits between Waaqa and his creations. [9] The Ayyaana (spirits) are known to possess chosen men and women, who are then given the title Qallu and Qallitti ...

  9. Muqattaʿat - Wikipedia

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    The mysterious letters [1] (muqaṭṭaʿāt, Arabic: حُرُوف مُقَطَّعَات ḥurūf muqaṭṭaʿāt, "disjoined letters" or "disconnected letters" [2]) are combinations of between one and five Arabic letters that appear at the beginning of 29 out of the 114 chapters of the Quran just after the Bismillāh Islamic phrase. [3]