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Maqsurah (Arabic: مقصورة,
literally "closed-off space") is an enclosure, box, or
wooden screen near the
mihrab or the
center of the
qibla wall in a mosque...
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vowel /ə/. Alif
maqsurah is
transliterated as á in ALA-LC, ā in DIN 31635, à in ISO 233-2, and ỳ in ISO 233. In Arabic, alif
maqsurah ى is not used initially...
- [i] or [iː]. A form
similar to but
distinguished from yāʾ is the ʾalif
maqṣūrah (أَلِف مَقْصُورَة) "limited/restricted alif", with the form ى. It indicates...
- of
spelling the same
sound in the
Arabic script, e.g. alif ا vs. alif
maqṣūrah ى for the
sound /aː/ ā, and the six
different ways (ء إ أ آ ؤ ئ) of writing...
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number of
ancient m****cripts.
Similar to the
Great Mosque of Damascus, a
maqsurah was
built in the form of a
square domed room
raised by one step
above the...
- /aː/ in the
classical language). This is the
apparent source of the alif
maqṣūrah 'restricted alif'
where a
final /-aja/ is reconstructed: a
letter that...
- over the
street between them,
allowing the
caliph direct access to the
maqsurah area of the
mosque via a
corridor behind the
qibla wall. The
first sabbat...
- word
Pushish (also the "covered part,"
exactly as "Al Mughatta") or the
Maqsurah (a part-for-the-whole synecdoche). The
building is also
referred to as...
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Egyptians do not use dots
under final yā’ ⟨ي⟩,
which looks exactly like alif
maqṣūrah ⟨ى⟩ in
handwriting and in print. This
practice is also used in
copies of...
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rests on an alif
maqṣūrah or
occasionally alif. When definite, they are not marked, and they
simply retain their long alif or alif
maqṣūrah. An
example is...
