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  2. Crown Letters and Punctuation and Their Placements - Wikipedia

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    The Crown script (خط التاج, Khat al Taj)—is a modern Arabic script fabricated by Egyptian calligrapher Mohammad Mahfouz in 1931 and proposed by then-King Fuad I. The purpose of inventing this script was to implement capital letters into the Arabic script to be used similarly to English capital letters—which it does very well.

  3. The Jewel in the Crown (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The novel is written in the form of interviews and reports of conversations or research and other portions are in the form of letters (epistolary form) or diary entries. The novel focuses on the triangle of an English woman, an Indian man, and a British police superintendent, setting up the events of subsequent novels in the series.

  4. The Towers of Silence - Wikipedia

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    Another large city in the province is Mayapore, which was the key setting in The Jewel in the Crown. The princely state of Mirat is a nominally sovereign enclave within the province. Pankot is a "second class" hill station in the province which serves as a headquarters for the 1st Pankot Rifles, an important regiment of the Indian Army, who ...

  5. Cyrillization of Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Cyrillization of Arabic is the conversion of text written in Arabic script into Cyrillic script. Because the Arabic script is an abjad (a writing system without vowels), an accurate transliteration into Cyrillic, an alphabet , would still require prior knowledge of the subject language to read.

  6. The Jewel in the Crown - Wikipedia

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    The Jewel in the Crown, a 1966 novel by Paul Scott; The Jewel in the Crown, a 1984 television series based on the Paul Scott novel; Jewel in the Crown, a 1995 album by Fairport Convention; Jewels in the Crown: All-Star Duets with the Queen, a 2007 Aretha Franklin album

  7. Levantine Arabic grammar - Wikipedia

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    Levantine Arabic grammar is the set of rules by which Levantine Arabic creates statements, questions and commands. In many respects, it is quite similar to that of the other vernacular Arabic varieties .

  8. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic-English edition edited by J Milton Cowan, based on the German 1952 edition and the 1959 supplement with revisions and improvements, was published in 1961. [1] The dictionary is based on attestations in written Arabic taken from modern literature, newspapers, and state documents.

  9. Saddam Hussein's novels - Wikipedia

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    Zabibah and the King (Arabic: زبيبة والملك Zabībah wal-Malik), also transliterated Zabiba and the King, written in 2000, is a novel that the CIA believes was written by Saddam Hussein. [2] The plot is a love story about a powerful ruler of medieval Iraq and a beautiful commoner girl named Zabibah. Zabibah's husband is a cruel and ...