Abdullah Yusuf Ali - other Scripts in the Market.

Submitted by Ynnatchkah (United States), Jan 10, 2008 at 02:45

I came across, when studying myself programming, an e-mail from an Arab Muslim offering his development of a script for transliterating Quran and showing tajwiyd (Pronunciation).

There are many in the market, however, looks like that even in the high tech Arabic muslim/islamist community, the trend is to point out to Abdullah Yusuf Ali, as I see.

It is not random at all that CAIR has chosen this one. In fact, it could have been consulted for example the

http://arabeyes.org

...The e-mail I came across has the following web address:

http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/developer/2006/February/msg00003.html

(In this e-mail, the Abdullah Yusuf Ali work is taken as reference).

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