Transliteration of Arabic and some Arabic-based Script Graphemes used in this Volume (including Persian and Malay)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Transliteration of Arabic and some Arabic-based Script Graphemes used in this Volume (including Persian and Malay) IX
5. Introduction: Orthographic Polyphony in Arabic Script 1
6. Persian Language in Arabic Script: The Formation of the Orthographic Standard and the Different Graphic Traditions of Iran in the First Centuries of the Islamic Era 39
7. Writing Judaeo-Arabic 73
8. Cross Palaeographic Traditions. Some Examples from Old Christian Arabic Sources 93
9. Uses and Written Practices in Aljamiado Manuscripts 111
10. How to write Turkish? The Vagaries of the Arabo-Persian Script in Ottoman-Turkish Texts 131
11. Developing Consistency in the Absence of Standards – A Manuscript as a Melting- Pot of Languages, Religions and Writing Systems 147
12. Standardisation in Manuscripts written in Sino-Arabic Scripts and xiaojing 177
13. A Collection of Unstandardised Consistencies? The Use of Jawi Script in a Few Early Malay Manuscripts from the Moluccas 217
14. Standardisation Tendencies in Kanuri and Hausa Ajami Writings 237
15. Kabyle in Arabic Script: A History without Standardisation 273
16. Beyond ‘aǧamī in Ethiopia: a short Note on an Arabic-Islamic Collection of Texts written in Ethiopian Script (fidäl) 297
17. List of Contributors 313
18. Index of Persons 315