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Rufaida Al-Aslamia. Rufayda Al-Aslamia (also transliterated Rufaida Al-Aslamiya or Rufaydah bint Sa`ad) ( Arabic: رفيدة الأسلمية) (born approx. 620 AD; 2 BH) was an Arab medical and social worker recognized as the first female Muslim nurse and the first female surgeon in Islam. [ 1] She is known as the first nurse in the world.
Primary. A fragment of Sūrat an-Nisā' – a chapter of Islam's sacred text entitled 'Women' – featuring the Persian, Arabic, and Kufic scripts. Islam views men and women as equal before God, and the Quran underlines that man and woman were "created of a single soul" (4:1, [ 15] 39:6 [ 16] and elsewhere).
Islam. Islam ( / ˈɪzlɑːm, ˈɪzlæm / IZ-la (h)m; [ 7] Arabic: ٱلْإِسْلَام, romanized : al-Islām, IPA: [alʔɪsˈlaːm], lit. 'submission [to the will of God]') is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
The basic Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters. Forms using the Arabic script to write other languages added and removed letters: for example ژ is often used to represent /ʒ/ in adaptations of the Arabic script. Unlike Greek -derived alphabets, Arabic has no distinct upper and lower case letterforms.
Yā Sīn[ 2] (also Yaseen; Arabic: يٰسٓ, yāsīn; the letters ' Yā' ' and ' Sīn ') is the 36th chapter of the Quran. It has 83 verses ( āyāt ). It is regarded an earlier "Meccan surah". Some scholars maintain that verse 12 is from the Medinan period. [ 3] While the surah begins in Juz' 22, most of it is in Juz' 23.
The name Daesh, considered pejorative by the Islamic State, [ 10] is the common term for the group used in the Muslim world. It is based on the Arabic letters Dāl, 'alif, `ayn, and shīn, which together form the acronym داعش ( Dāʿish) of ISIL's 2013 name al-Dawla al-ʾIslāmiyya fī al-`Irāq wa al-Shām. [ 1] It is pronounced with the ...
Arabic is written in its own alphabet, with letters, symbols, and orthographic conventions that do not have exact equivalents in the Latin alphabet (see Arabic alphabet). The following list contains transliterations of Arabic terms and phrases; variations exist, e.g. din instead of deen and aqidah instead of aqeedah. Most items in the list also ...
In the Arabic language, the g sound seems to have changed into j in fairly late pre-Islamic times, but this seems not to have happened in those tribes who invaded Egypt and settled there. When a letter was at the end of a word, it often developed an end loop, and as a result most Arabic letters have two or more shapes. b and n and t became the ...