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Even if you don't want to have some deep knowledge of Arabic, when you know the alphabet, at least you can correctly read the Islamic terms and be less confused about their pronunciation (and also look more professional). This article is for people who speak English and have no knowledge of Arabic. | Even if you don't want to have some deep knowledge of Arabic, when you know the alphabet, at least you can correctly read the Islamic terms and be less confused about their pronunciation (and also look more professional). This article is for people who speak English and have no knowledge of Arabic. | ||
The Arabic "alphabet" is not compatible with the English alphabet. There are letters in English, which cannot be transliterated | The Arabic "alphabet" is not compatible with the English alphabet. There are letters in English, which cannot be transliterated using the Arabic alphabet and vice versa. | ||
The word "alphabet" is derived from the words "'''a'''lpha" and "'''b'''eta", but Arabic doesn't have a letter like "a" (it has a letter "alif", which is however more complicated). Also many words consist of only consonants and the vowels are added by diacritics. So "alphabet" might not be the best way to describe the Arabic letters and abjad is used instead (الأَبْجَدِيَّة العَرَبِيَّة, ''al-abjadīyah al-ʻarabīyah'', the Arabic abjad). | The word "alphabet" is derived from the words "'''a'''lpha" and "'''b'''eta", but Arabic doesn't have a letter like "a" (it has a letter "alif", which is however more complicated). Also many words consist of only consonants and the vowels are added by diacritics. So "alphabet" might not be the best way to describe the Arabic letters and abjad is used instead (الأَبْجَدِيَّة العَرَبِيَّة, ''al-abjadīyah al-ʻarabīyah'', the Arabic abjad). | ||