Elementary Education and Motivation in Islam: Perspectives of Med ...

been established, many corresponding Arabic and English terms and expressions have been used interchangeably.

Arabic Transliteration

This book utilised Brill's method for Arabic transliteration as found in its Encyclopaedia of Islam Three.² Please refer to the table and explanatory notes below.

no sun letters (al-urf-l-shamsiyya)

elision of al-, according to the rules of classical Arabic (e.g., wa-l-kitb, f l-masjid, Muy l-Dn, bi-l-kitb, but lil-masjid)

compound names with Allh were generally written as one word (e.g., ‘Abdullh)

other compound names were written as two words (e.g., ‘Abd al-Ramn)