Qurʔān

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English

Proper noun

the Qurʔān

  1. Rare form of Qur'an.
    • 2006, S.I. Sara, “Ibn Mada’al Qurtubi (1120–1196)”, in Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, 2nd edition, volume 5 (Gen–Int), Elsevier, page 454, columns 1–2:
      Its origins are clearly the Basrah and Kuwfah schools of the 8th century, where the procedures of data analysis and the nature of valid linguistic data from the Qurʔān, the poets, and dialectal authenticity were set.
    • 2015, Aicha Rahmouni, Storytelling in Chefchaouen Northern Morocco: An Annotated Study of Oral Performance with Transliterations and Translations, Brill, →ISBN, page 149:
      For this quotation from the Qurʔān see n. 332, p.259.
    • 2018, Reem Bassiouney, “Identity, repertoire, and performance: The case of an Egyptian poet”, in Reem Bassiouney, editor, Identity and Dialect Performance: A Study of Communities and Dialects (Routledge Studies in Language and Identity), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, Part IV (The media, dialect performance, and language variation):
      It is the language of the Qurʔān and of the Classical Arabic culture, which grants it divine and authoritative indexes, and also the only unifying factor for Arabs all around the world.