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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.
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.
The Arabic keyboard ( Arabic: لوحة المفاتيح العربية, romanized : lawḥat al-mafātīḥ al-ʕarabiyya) is the Arabic keyboard layout used for the Arabic alphabet. All computer Arabic keyboards contain both Arabic letters and Latin letters, the latter being necessary for URLs and e-mail addresses. Since Arabic is written from ...
Musaylima ( Arabic: مُسَيْلِمَةُ ), otherwise known as Musaylima ibn Ḥabīb ( Arabic: مسيلمه ابن حبيب) d.632, was a claimant of prophethood [ 1][ 2][ 3] from the Banu Hanifa tribe. [ 4][ 5] Based from Diriyah in present day Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, he claimed to be a prophet and was an enemy of Islam in 7th-century Arabia.
Lontara Bilang-bilang is a substitution cipher in which the glyph of standard Lontara letters are substituted by stylized digits derived from the numeric value of corresponding Arabic alphabet. Diacritics are not changed and used as is.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...