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e. The Kaaba in Mecca or Makkah. Bakkah ( Arabic: بَكَّةُ [ˈbɛk.kɛh] ), is a place mentioned in surah 3 ( 'Āl 'Imrān ), ayah 96 of the Qur'an, a verse sometimes translated as: "Indeed, the first House [of worship] established for mankind was that at Bakkah [i.e., Makkah] - blessed and a guidance for the worlds." ( Quran 3:96 )
Arabs, Nubians, [ 3] Beja, Cushites, Nilo-Saharans. Sudanese Arabs ( Arabic: عرب سودانيون, romanized : ʿarab sūdāniyyūn) are the inhabitants of Sudan who identify as Arabs and speak Arabic as their mother tongue. [ 4] Some of them are descendants of Arabs who migrated to Sudan from the Arabian Peninsula, [ 5] although the rest ...
Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. [ 2] Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula. There are considerable variations from region to region, with degrees of mutual intelligibility that are often related ...
Jurji Zaydan. Jurji Zaydan[ a] ( Arabic: جرجي زيدان, ALA-LC: Jurjī Zaydān; December 14, 1861 – July 21, 1914) was a prolific Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher, most noted for his creation of the magazine Al-Hilal, which he used to serialize his twenty three historical novels. His primary goal, as a writer and ...
In Indonesian Islamic education, Kitab kuning (lit: yellow book) refers to the traditional set of the Islamic texts used by the educational curriculum of the Islamic seminary in Indonesia, especially within the madrasahs and pesantrens. Coverage of kitab kuning extends from the principles of Islamic jurisprudence ( usul al-fiqh ), Islamic ...
The romanization of Arabic is the systematic rendering of written and spoken Arabic in the Latin script. Romanized Arabic is used for various purposes, among them transcription of names and titles, cataloging Arabic language works, language education when used instead of or alongside the Arabic script, and representation of the language in ...
Arab Muslims ( Arabic: ﺍﻟْمُسْلِمون ﺍﻟْﻌَﺮَﺏ al-Muslimiyyūn al-ʿArab) are the largest subdivision of the Arab people and the largest ethnic group among Muslims globally, [ 1] followed by Bengalis [ 2][ 3][ 4] and Punjabis. [ 5] Likewise, they comprise the majority of the population of the Arab world. [ 6][ 7]
Islam in West Sumatra is predominantly Sunni, though there is a small Shia Islamic pocket within the coastal city of Pariaman. The Minangkabau people , indigenous to West Sumatra, comprise 88% of the West Sumatran population today and have historically played an important role within Indonesia's Muslim community. [ 2 ]