Search tips in Arabic transliteration

• Searches you perform on this site will query only the descriptive information about each book, both in English and Arabic, but not the full texts of the books. As searching technologies for Arabic OCR develop, we intend to introduce full-text searching.
• Books in multi-volume works appear as separate search results. In the book viewer, click on “view related titles” to read the other volumes.
• Click on hyper-linked metadata to find other books in the same category.
• Transliteration (for consonants) usually follows the LOC transliteration system.
• Pronunciation follows Modern Standard Arabic (fuṣḥá).
• Diacritical vowels are equivalent to normal characters, i.e. Ḥajjāj = Hajjaj.
• Try searching places by different transliterations, i.e. Cairo, Qahira, Qahirah, Tehran, Tihran.
• Try searching places in English, French, or transliteration, i.e. Egypt, Egypte, Misr.
• Try searching subject terms in English, French, or transliteration, i.e. philosophy, philosophie, falsafah.
• Try searching names with or without the definite article “Al-“.
• Diacritics on the last letter of a word are not included, i.e. search for al-Kabir not al-Kabiru.
• Feminine possessive suffix appears as -iyah and not as -iyyah, i.e. search for Hanafiyah.
• Tanwīn al-Fatḥ is written in transliteration as -an, i.e. search for khassatan.
• Tāʼ Marbūṭah is written as -h for single nouns and -t in cases of al-Iḍāfah (compound nouns).