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  2. Pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    The Nabataean script was used to write down the Nabataean Aramaic language, which was originally derived from Imperial Aramaic. Over the centuries, the Nabataean script evolved into a Nabataean Arabic intermediary, and this script evolved into Paleo-Arabic, which is when the Arabic script entered its recognizably current form in the pre-Islamic ...

  3. Muhaqqaq - Wikipedia

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    Muhaqqaq is one of the main six types of calligraphic script in Arabic. [1] The Arabic word muḥaqqaq (محقَّق) means "consummate" or "clear", and originally was used to denote any accomplished piece of calligraphy.

  4. Torah in Islam - Wikipedia

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    The Tawrat (Arabic: تَّوْرَاة ‎, romanized: Tawrāh), also romanized as Tawrah or Taurat, is the Arabic-language name for the Torah within its context as an Islamic holy book believed by Muslims to have been given by God to the prophets and messengers amongst the Children of Israel. In the Qur'an, the word 'Tawrat' occurs eighteen times.

  5. Islamic holy books - Wikipedia

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    The "Tawrat" (also Tawrah or Taurat; Arabic: توراة‎) is the Arabic name for the Torah within its context as an Islamic holy book believed by Muslims to have been given by God to the prophets and messengers amongst the Children of Israel.

  6. Islamic manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese practice of writing on paper, presented to the Islamic world around the 8th century CE, enabled the writing of the Qur'an on paper. The decrease in production costs of Qur'an manuscripts due to the transition from parchment to paper enabled Qur'ans to be utilized more frequently for personal use or worship, rather than just ...

  7. Saj' - Wikipedia

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    Saj' (Arabic: سجع, romanized: sajʿ) is a form of rhymed prose defined by its relationship to and use of end-rhyme, meter, and parallelism. [1] There are two types of parallelism in saj': iʿtidāl (rhythmical parallelism, meaning "balance") and muwāzana (qualitative metrical parallelism). [2] Saj' was the earliest artistic speech in Arabic.

  8. Nabataean script - Wikipedia

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    The Nabataean script is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) that was used to write Nabataean Aramaic and Nabataean Arabic from the second century BC onwards. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Important inscriptions are found in Petra (now in Jordan ), the Sinai Peninsula (now part of Egypt ), and other archaeological sites including Abdah (in Palestine ) and Mada'in ...

  9. Library of Arabic Literature - Wikipedia

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    The Library of Arabic Literature's award-winning edition-translations include Leg Over Leg by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, edited and translated by Humphrey Davies, which was shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association's 2016 National Translation Award [4] and longlisted for the 2014 Best Translated Book Award, organized by Open Letter; [5] Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal by ...