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I am choosing a muslim name for an SCA persona and would like to make sure i pronounce it correctly. I need help with names such as Nu'man, Ra'ed, Ma'd, and other names which use apostrophes. Also the pronunciation of Haidar or Haydar. Also, If anyone knows a website i can go to to learn how to pronounce muslim names, or if anyone can offer a "guide" to their pronounciations, that would be very helpful.
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Here is a website that might help:
http://quranicnames.com/
http://quranicnames.com/
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Incidentally, muslim names are not pronounced the same way everywhere. Many of the names muslims use in India, for example, are either of Arabic or Persian origin, but they are often pronounced according to the phonotactics of the local language. In some parts of India, this "Muslim" name is used on formal occasions, but people also have a familiar name which often is indistinguishable from the familiar names of people of other communities. This latter statement is often true of Christians as well.
Even when the commonly heard pronunciation differs from the original Arabic or Farsi one, the latter is considered the "correct" one, especially for traditional (e.g., quranic) names.
Even when the commonly heard pronunciation differs from the original Arabic or Farsi one, the latter is considered the "correct" one, especially for traditional (e.g., quranic) names.
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That's right. "Muslim" is not a language, and even you mean "Arabic" and not Persian or Turkic names (the latter two used throughout the Islamic world as well), there is more than one flavor of Arabic, in fact if you exclude Judeo-Arabic languages there are still 30 Arabic languages that rate their own 3-letter language codes, plus a couple of Creoles (simplified mixtures of two or more languages). Additionally there are a further seven languages spoken by Muslims in Yemen and Oman which are closer to Ethiopian than the other surviving Semitic languages of the Middle East (Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew). Each will have their own distinct way of pronouncing and writing Arabic names, and then there will be, as তন্ময় ভট্টাচার্য্য mentioned, how Arabic names are spoken and used by Muslims outside the Arabic world.
This message was edited 10/6/2017, 7:50 AM
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