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  2. Sa'id ben Hasan of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    Sa'id accuses the Jews of corrupting the Biblical text and substituting other names for those of Muhammad and Ishmael. He also sometimes inserts his own words into Biblical passages when quoting them in Arabic translation. [2] The book begins with an account of Sa'id's conversion to Islam in May 1298.

  3. Arabic script in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    Only the Arabic question mark ؟ and the Arabic comma ، are used in regular Arabic script typing and the comma is often substituted for the Latin script comma , which is also used as the decimal separator when the Eastern Arabic numerals are used (e.g. 100.6 compared to ١٠٠,٦ ).

  4. Nastaliq - Wikipedia

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    The name Nastaliq "is a contraction of the Persian naskh-i ta'liq (Persian: نَسْخِ تَعلیق), meaning a hanging or suspended naskh. " [6] Virtually all Safavid authors (like Dust Muhammad or Qadi Ahmad) attributed the invention of nastaliq to Mir Ali Tabrizi, who lived at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century.

  5. Simplified Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Simplified Arabic (called Yakout since 1967) is a simplified Arabic font that allowed Arabic text to be composed using a Linotype machine. [1] [2] It was first announced in 1959 as Mrowa-Linotype Simplified Arabic. [1] [3] [4] The font was developed by Kamel Mrowa, Nabih Jaroudi, and Linotype & Machinery Ltd. staff under the guidance of Walter ...

  6. Amiri (typeface) - Wikipedia

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    Amiri (Arabic: الأميري) is a naskh typeface for Arabic script designed by Khaled Hosny. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The beta was released in December 2011. [ 1 ] As of October 22, 2019, it is hosted on 67,000 websites, and is served by the Google Fonts API approximately 74.8 million times per week.

  7. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The basic Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters. Forms using the Arabic script to write other languages added and removed letters: for example پ is often used to represent /p/ in adaptations of the Arabic script. Unlike Greek -derived alphabets, Arabic has no distinct upper and lower case letterforms.

  8. Kurdish typography - Wikipedia

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    KurdITGroup's font converter, for converting non-Unicode fonts to Unicode. Beware: Some old converters convert Teh Marbuta (0629) to Heh + ZWNJ (0647 200C) instead of the correct Ae (06D5)! Most converters don't retain formatting through non-joiners and therefore give a slightly different, albeit more standard, rendering.

  9. Ruqʿah script - Wikipedia

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    Ruqʿah (Arabic: رُقعة) or Riqʿah (رِقعة) is a writing style of Arabic script intended for the rapid production of texts. It a relatively simple and plain style, used for everyday writing and often used for signs. [ 1 ] The Ottoman calligraphers Mumtaz Efendi [ 2 ] (1810–1872) and Mustafa Izzet Efendi (1801–1876) are credited ...