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Arabic's role in Islam has been a major contributing factor to nationalist projects, both within and without the Arab world. Arab nationalists have supported the development of Modern Standard Arabic as an official state language in the Arab world , often making a direct connection between the language and the Islamic faith. [ 22 ]
ʿIlm al-Ḥurūf (Arabic: عِلْم الْحُرُوف) or the science of letters, also called Islamic lettrism, is a process of Arabic numerology whereby numerical values assigned to Arabic letters are added up to provide total values for words in the Quran, similar to Hebrew gematria. Used to infer meanings and reveal secret or hidden messages.
Calligraphy was a valued art form, and was regarded as both an aesthetic and moral pursuit. An ancient Arabic proverb illustrates this point by emphatically stating that "Purity of writing is purity of the soul." [6] Beyond religious contexts, Islamic calligraphy is widely used in secular art, architecture, and decoration. [7]
Research shows that the rituals in the Quran, along with laws such as qisas [140] and tax , developed as an evolution of pre-Islamic Arabian rituals. Arabic words meaning pilgrimage , prayer and charity (zakāt) can be seen in pre-Islamic Safaitic-Arabic inscriptions, [141] and this continuity can be observed in many details, especially in hajj ...
The Arabic alphabet is first attested in its classical form in the 7th century. See PERF 558 for the first surviving Islamic Arabic writing. The Quran was transcribed in Kufic script at first, which was then developed along with the Meccan and Medini scripts, according to Ibn an-Nadim in Al-Fihrist. [13]
Al-Naba (Arabic: النبأ lit. The News or The Report) is an official weekly newspaper issued by the Central Media Office of the Islamic State, first published in 2014. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Among Islamic manuscripts in China, Sini script can be found in many Qur'ans produced in China throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties. Examples include a Qur'an from China dated to 1013/1605 in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art (QUR992) and a Qur'an from China dated to the 16th-18th century in the Tareq Rajab Museum (TSR-MS-11). [9]
The Amman Message (Arabic: رسالة عمان, romanized: Risālat ʿAmmān) is a statement calling for tolerance and unity in the Muslim world that was issued on 9 November 2004 (27 Ramadan 1425 AH) by King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, and his advisor Sheikh Izz-Eddine Al-Tamimi.