Arabic music is the music of Arab people or countries, especially those centered on the Arabian Peninsula.

The varieties of Arabic are considerably different from each other-especially those spoken in North Africa ( Maghreb ) from those of the Middle East ( the Mashriq in the broad definition including Egypt and Sudan )-and had there been the political will in the different Arab countries to cut themselves off from each other, the case could have been made to declare these varieties as separate languages.

However, in adherence to the ideas of Arab Nationalism, the Arab countries prefer to give preference to the Literary Arabic which is common to all of them, conduct much of their political, cultural and religious life in it ( adherence to Islam ), and refrain from declaring each country's specific variety to be a separate language, because Literary Arabic is the liturgical language of Islam and the language of the Islamic sacred book, the Qur ' an.

He wrote that " all of the democratic circles of America and of Europe, especially those of the Italian centre-left, now know well that the disastrous attack was planned and realized by the American CIA and Mossad with the help of the Zionist world to place the blame on Arabic countries and to persuade the Western powers to intervene in Iraq and Afghanistan ".

Iraq and Sudan are connected by remote cultural similarities such as language ( both countries speak Arabic, though the two are different in dialect ) and religion, both are Muslim ( however Sudan is predominantly Sunni, while the majority of Iraq is Shia ).

In many English-speaking countries, the most common shape of a handwritten Arabic digit 1 is just a vertical stroke ; that is, it lacks the upstroke added in many other cultures.

Tile murals are typically found in countries around the Mediterranean Sea such as Morocco, Tunisia and Arabic countries, in Portugal and Spain mostly in an often monochrom-colored form, the Azulejo.

Cars sold to U. S., Canada, Australia and Arabic countries got new parts once remaining old design caliper stock was used up.

Zaydan had critical influence on acceptance of a modernized version of the Quranic Arabic language as the universal written and official language throughout the Arab world, instead of adoption of local dialects in the various countries.

Iraq and Sudan are connected by remote cultural similarities such as language ( both countries speak Arabic, though the two are different in dialect ) and religion, both are Muslim ( however Sudan is predominantly Sunni, while the majority of Iraq is Shia ).

SATTS, a legacy of Morse and teleprinter systems ( see " Background ," below ), has historically been employed by military and communications elements of Western countries for handling Arabic text without the need for native fonts or special software.

In some Levantine countries, and Assyrian, the condiment za ' atar ( Arabic for thyme ) contains thyme as a vital ingredient.

The first set was a group of Arabic names for the countries of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

In Arabic countries the queen remains termed, and in some cases depicted as, a vizier.

A popular but inaccurate belief in Arabic-speaking countries is that the word paella derives from the Arabic word for leftovers, baqiyah, ( Arabic script: بقية ) because it was customary among Arab sailors to combine leftovers of previous meals which purportedly led to a paella-like creation in Moorish Spain.

The country also has considerable communities of American, Arabic, Chinese, Indian, and Hispanic descent, and other ethnicities from other countries.

In Islamic countries, Fridays are considered as the last day of the week and are holidays along with Thursdays ; Saturday is called Sabt ( cognate to Sabbath ) and it is the first day of the week in many Arabic countries.

This requirement had previously prevented countries from submitting films where the majority of the dialogue was spoken in a language that was non-native to the submitting country, and the Academy's executive director explicitly cited as a reason for the rule change the case of the Italian film Private ( 2004 ), which was disqualified simply because its main spoken languages were Arabic and Hebrew, neither of which are indigenous languages of Italy.

In a number of countries, Discovery's channels are available on digital satellite platforms with multiple language soundtracks or subtitles including Spanish, German, Russian, Czech, Hindi, Tamil, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Turkish, Greek, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Arabic, Slovene, Indian, Japanese, Korean and Serbian.

An interesting feature of tables play in some Arab countries is that Persian or Kurdish numbers, rather than Arabic ones, are called out by a player announcing his dice rolls.

In most Gulf countries as well as Jordan, English is introduced as a second language early on alongside the primary medium of instruction, Arabic.

Its author is a renowned expert in Greek and Arabic medicine who has paid considerable attention to Avicenna in his recent studies [...].

The Prophecies Of Karma, published in 2011, is advertised as the first work of science fiction by an Arabic author, the Libanese writer Nael Gharzeddine.

Satire was introduced into Arabic prose literature by the Afro-Arab author Al-Jahiz in the 9th century.

* Al-Jahiz, an Arabic prose writer, historian, and author of works of adab, Mu ' tazili theology, and politico-religious polemics ( b. 776 )

However, the main Arabic text seems to have been written by an earlier author sometime between the early 9th and late 10th centuries CE.

The same author goes on by giving other philosophical writings which are totally compatible with the religion of Islam, as the al-Risālah fil-wujūd (, " Treatise on Being "), written in Arabic, which begin with Quranic verses and asserting that all things come from God, and there is an order in these things.

He was the author of the first Jewish system of ethics, written in Arabic in 1080 under the title Al Hidayah ila Faraid al-Qulub, Guide to the Duties of the Heart, and translated into Hebrew by Judah ibn Tibbon in the years 1161-80 under the title Chovot HaLevavot, Instruction in the Duties of the Heart.

Idries Shah ( 16 June 1924 – 23 November 1996 ) (, ), also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi ( Arabic: سيد إدريس هاشمي ), was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen critically acclaimed books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.

According to author and historian John Kennedy O ' Connor in his book The Eurovision Song Contest-The Official History, when Israel became the clear winners during the voting, most of the Arabic stations ended their transmission of the contest.

One German author claims the word " mask " is originally derived from the Spanish más que la cara ( literally, " more than the face " or " added face "), which evolved to " máscara ", while the Arabic " maskharat "-referring to the buffoonery which is possible only by disguising the face-would be based on these Spanish roots.

) ( or al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, Arabic: حسن ابن محمد الوزان الفاسي ) was a Moorish diplomat and author who is best known for his book Descrittione dell ’ Africa ( Description of Africa ) describing the geography of North Africa.

The author of this text was probably introduced to Galenic gynecology through Arabic medical texts, such as Ibn al-Jazzar's Viaticum.

Al-Karak was the birthplace of Ibn al-Quff, an Arab physician and surgeon and author of the earliest medieval Arabic treatise intended solely for surgeons.

* Ibn al-Kalbī ; ( author ) and Nabih Amin Faris ( translator & commentary ) ( 1952 ): The Book of Idols, Being a Translation from the Arabic of the Kitāb al-Asnām.

* Ibn al-Kalbī ; ( author ) and Nabih Amin Faris ( translator & commentary ) ( 1952 ): The Book of Idols, Being a Translation from the Arabic of the Kitāb al-Asnām.

The only published studies of Korandje based on first-hand data are Cancel ( 1908 ), a 45-page article by a French lieutenant covering basic grammar and vocabulary and a couple of sample texts ; Champault ( 1969 ), an anthropological study containing some incidental linguistically relevant materials such as sentences and rhymes ; Tilmatine ( 1991, 1996 ), an article ( published in German, then reworked in French ) revisiting Cancel and Champault and adding about a page of new data recorded by the author ; and Souag ( 2010a, 2010b ), the former arguing the case for Western Berber loans in the lexicon, the latter studying the effect of contact with Berber and Arabic on its grammar.

It was founded in 1994 by Daniel Pipes and the current editor is British academic and author Denis MacEoin, a former lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle University and the author of numerous books and articles on Islam.

The ' author ( s )' not only used this melange of languages but also coined words half Arabic half Sanskrit ( and sometimes words without any meaning just to create a musical effect ).

Severus ibn al-Muqaffaʿ ( in Arabic ساويرس بن المقفع ) or Severus of El Ashmunein ( in Arabic ساويرس الأشمونين ) ( died 987 ) was a Coptic Orthodox Bishop, author and historian.

* לוחות or לוחות הנשיא (" Tables " or " Tables of the Prince "), astronomical tables, called also Tables of Al-Battani, because the author followed the Arabic astronomer of that name ( see Battani ).

al-Jāḥiẓ ( in Arabic الجاحظ ) ( real name Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Fuqaimi al-Basri ) ( born in Basra, 781 – December 868 / January 869 ) was an Arabic prose writer and author of works of literature, Mu ' tazili theology, and politico-religious polemics.

A prolific author and professor of Biblical and Mormon scripture at BYU, he was fluent in numerous languages, including Classical Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Egyptian, Coptic, Arabic, German, French, English, Italian, and Spanish.