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  2. Allah - Wikipedia

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    Many Arabic type fonts feature special ligatures for Allah. [99] Since Arabic script is used to write other texts rather than Koran only, rendering lām + lām + hā' as the previous ligature is considered faulty which is the case with most common Arabic typefaces.

  3. Islamic honorifics - Wikipedia

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    [66] [67] Though these honorifics may be abbreviated in writing, they are never abbreviated in speech. Abbreviations often vary in letter case and use of periods. [68] [69] Arabic text of the another shape of "Salawat": Arabic: «صَلَی اللهُ عَلَیه و سَلَّم», meaning "May God send His mercy and blessings upon him".

  4. Arabic script in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic Extended-B and Arabic Extended-A ranges encode additional Qur'anic annotations and letter variants used for various non-Arabic languages. The Arabic Presentation Forms-A range encodes contextual forms and ligatures of letter variants needed for Persian, Urdu, Sindhi and Central Asian languages.

  5. File:Arabic components (letters) in the word Allah.svg

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on an.wikipedia.org Alí; Al-Fatiha; Al-Qaeda; Kitáb-i-Aqdas; Audal·lá ben Hakam; Sulaymán ben Hud al-Musta'in

  6. Dagger alif - Wikipedia

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    The word الله (Allāh) is usually produced automatically by entering "alif lām lām hāʾ"; or in Arabic "ا ل ل ه". The word consists of alif + ligature of doubled lām with a shadda and a dagger alif above lām .

  7. Arabic script - Wikipedia

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    There is evidence that writing Arabic in this other set of letters (known as Garshuni) influenced the style of modern Arabic script. After this initial period, Garshuni writing has continued to the present day among some Syriac Christian communities in the Arabic-speaking regions of the Levant and Mesopotamia .

  8. Islamic calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    The term, hurufiyya is derived from the Arabic term, harf for letter. Traditionally, the term was charged with Sufi intellectual and esoteric meaning. [34] It is an explicit reference to a medieval system of teaching involving political theology and lettrism. In this theology, letters were seen as primordial signifiers and manipulators of the ...

  9. Names of God in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Names of Allah in Arabic calligraphy. Quranic verse 3:26 is cited as evidence against the validity of using Divine names for persons, with the example of Mālik ul-Mulk (مَـٰلِكُ ٱلْمُلْكُ: "Lord of Power" or "Owner of all Sovereignty"): Say: "O God!