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2. Arabic - Wikipedia

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   Arabic ( اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, al-ʿarabiyyah [al ʕaraˈbijːa] ⓘ or عَرَبِيّ, ʿarabīy [ˈʕarabiː] ⓘ or [ʕaraˈbij]) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. [14] The ISO assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of ...

3. Indonesian language - Wikipedia

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   Indonesian ( Bahasa Indonesia; [baˈhasa indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. [8] It is a standardized variety of Malay, [9] an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries. Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world, with over ...

4. Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah, and Guidance - Wikipedia

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   The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah, and Guidance (Arabic: وزارة الشؤون الإسلامية والدعوة والإرشاد), at times shortened to Ministry of Islamic Affairs (MOIA), is a government ministry in Saudi Arabia that is responsible for overseeing affairs pertaining to Islam as well as maintaining and regulating all mosques across the country.

5. Modern Standard Arabic - Wikipedia

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   Current situation. Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the literary standard across the Middle East, North Africa and Horn of Africa, and is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Most printed material in the Arab League —including most books, newspapers, magazines, official documents, and reading primers for small children—is ...

6. Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies - Wikipedia

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   Coordinates: 41°53′13″N 12°28′22″E. The Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies ( Italian: Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d'Islamistica, Latin: Pontificium Institutum Studiorum Arabicorum et Islamicorum; PISAI) is a Catholic institution of higher education located in Rome focused on Arabic and Islamic culture ...

7. Science in the medieval Islamic world - Wikipedia

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   The Tusi couple, a mathematical device invented by the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi to model the not perfectly circular motions of the planets. Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Córdoba, the Abbadids of Seville, the Samanids, the Ziyarids and the Buyids in ...

8. Tribes of Arabia - Wikipedia

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   Arab genealogical tradition. The general consensus among 14th-century Arab genealogists is that Arabs are of three kinds: . Al-Arab al-Ba'ida (Arabic: العرب البائدة), "The Extinct Arabs", were an ancient group of tribes in pre-Islamic Arabia that included the ‘Ād, the Thamud, the Tasm, the Jadis, thelaq (who included branches of Banu al-Samayda), and others.

9. Arabs - Wikipedia

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   Arabs. The Arabs ( Arabic: عَرَب, DIN 31635: ʿarab, Arabic pronunciation: [b] [ˈʕɑ.rɑb] ⓘ ), also known as the Arab people ( الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ ), are an ethnic group [c] mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa. A significant Arab diaspora is present in various parts of the world.