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Wadaad's writing, also known as Wadaad's Arabic (Somali: Far Wadaad, lit. 'Scholar's Handwriting'), is the traditional Somali adaptation of written Arabic [1][2] as well as the Arabic script as historically used to transcribe the Somali language. [3][4][5] Originally, it referred to a non-grammatical Arabic featuring some words from the Somali ...
v. t. e. Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is Adab, which comes from a meaning of etiquette, and which implies politeness, culture and enrichment. [1]
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script ), [ 2 ] the second-most widely used writing system in the world by number of countries using it, and the third-most by number of users (after ...
Aljamiado (Spanish: [alxaˈmjaðo]; Portuguese: [alʒɐmiˈaðu]; Arabic: عَجَمِيَة trans. ʿajamiyah [ʕadʒaˈmij.ja]) or Aljamía texts are manuscripts that use the Arabic script for transcribing European languages, especially Romance languages such as Old Spanish or Aragonese. This alphabet is also called the Morisco alphabet.
South Arabian inscription addressed to the Sabaean national god Almaqah. The Ancient South Arabian script (Old South Arabian: 𐩣𐩯𐩬𐩵 ms3nd; modern Arabic: الْمُسْنَد musnad) branched from the Proto-Sinaitic script in about the late 2nd millennium BCE. It was used for writing the Old South Arabian languages Sabaic, Qatabanic ...
The Muʻallaqāt (Arabic: المعلقات, [ʔalmuʕallaqaːt]) is a compilation of seven long pre-Islamic Arabic poems. [1] The name means The Suspended Odes or The Hanging Poems , they were named so because these poems were hung in the Kaaba in Mecca , [ 2 ] Some scholars have also suggested that the hanging is figurative, as if the poems ...
History of the Arabic Written Tradition. History of the Arabic Written Tradition ( German: Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, or GAL) is a reference work produced by the German scholar Carl Brockelmann and first published in two editions by Brill in Leiden in 1898 and 1902. [1]
The Arabic short story has been classified in three different periods. The first is “The Embryonic Stage,” (Arabic المرحلة الجنينيّة), dated from the beginning of the 19th century to 1914. The works of writers of this stage such as Salim Al-Bustani, Labibah Hashim, Khalil Gibran, Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti and others were ...