Re: Questions about yeh, hamzah on yeh, alef maksura and dotless ba

[Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <meor dot ridzuan at gmail dot com>]

Nicholas,
I did encounter that title sometime ago, but from where I stay, it is
almost impossible to get a copy, unless I order online (which is not
cost efficient for me).
Anyway, how different it is form something like this
http://www.ymsite.com/books/Quran_Dictionary/Easy_Dictionary.htm  ? I
think it is a good introduction, simple. It deos not attemp to use the
correct spelling as well. However, it suffers from one problem:
trouble with putting marks to Lam Alef. I think htis is due to lack of
good font support the comes with MS Windows. None can really support
marking lam alef correctly, as far as I know.

Regards.


On 12/31/05, heer <heer at u dot washington dot edu> wrote:
> Meor,
>
>         With respect to indexing the Qur'an you might want to take a look
> at Muhammad Fu'ad `Abd al-Baqi's _al-Mu`jam al-Mufahras li-Alfaz al-Qur'an
> al-Karim_.  It was first published by Dar al-Kutub in Cairo in 1945, but
> has been reprinted many times since then.  Notice that the author makes no
> attempt to represent the spelling found in a mushaf.  Everything is
> printed in a modern Arabic font, and, in accordance with Egyptian style,
> final ya's are without dots.
>
> Nicholas
>