DICTIONARY OF ISLAMIC WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS pdf download

Dictionary of Islamic Words and Expressions Romanized Arabic-English Prof. Mahmoud Ismail Saleh

DICTIONARY OF ISLAMIC WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS

It is a well-known fact that any reasonable understanding of Islam requires some knowledge of the language of the Qur’an, Arabic, due to the following reasons:

 1. The two main sources of Islamic teachings, the Qur’an and the Sunnah, are in Arabic.

There have been many attempts to render the meanings of these into other languages through translation.

However, no translation can really convey the whole meaning of the original text, especially of religious or literary nature.

For no two languages in the world have exact equivalents for their lexicons, even if they belong to the same family of languages.

Naturally, the gap increases with the distance between the relevant languages in history and culture; the greater the difference (such as between Arabic and English) the wider the gap, and it is hard even for the cleverest of translators to close it.

Besides, many Qur’anic verses and words have more than one meaning, which a