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x SYSTEMS OP TRANSLITERATION AND OP CITATION OF PROPER NAMES

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3. The Arabic article is invariably written al; no account being taken of the assimilation cf the I to the following letter; e.g., Abu al-Salt, not Abu-l-Salt; Nafis al-Daulah, not Nafis ad-Daulah.

The

article is joined

by a hyphen to the following word.

4. At the end of words the feminine termination is written ah at ; e.g., Risalah dhat al-Kursiyy, but Hi'at al-Aflak. 6.

but,

when

followed by a genitive,

taken of the overhanging vowels which distinguish the cases e.g., 'Amr, not in a title, Kitab al-amanat wal-'itikadat

No

account

or

'Amrun; Ya'akub, not Ya'akubun; or

is





C—Rules

'Amru

for the Transliteration of Russian.

.Ml Russian names and words, except such as have become familiar to English readers in another form, as Czar, Alexander, deciatine, Moscow, are transliterated according to the following system

A

a