Talk:List of chapters in the Quran

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Spelling of Ali Imran issue
This has been discussed a lot on the Ali Imran page by several people. The use of the hyphen is a mistake. Academic precedent and most English translations use either "Ali Imran" or "Al Imran". "Al-Imran" implies the definite article (there is no reason to hyphenate two nouns together in Arabic transcriptions) and "Al-i-Imran" just looks Persian and is definitely not a standard way of transcribing Arabic. The Encyclopedia of Islam only uses the hyphen for grammatical elision and the joining of certain conjunctions and prepositions. There is definitely no reason to split off the final vowel (silenced or not) of a noun with a hyphen (the transcription I just removed was spelling the word for "family", in effect, as "Al-i")

As far as I can tell from contemporary sources, only two spells are appropriate:

"Ali Imran" (The grammatical puritan spelling) "Al Imran" (Closer to real life pronunciation and strictly without the hyphen so as to distinguish it from all those surahs that indeed begin with the definite article)

An experienced editor needs to solve this problem below:

"Ali Imran" goes to a fictional character (another completely different name...)

So, "Al Imran" it is, on this list at least, until someone can get that article out of the way and rename both the list item and the article itself as "Ali Imran"

--Sawyer207 (talk) 05:06, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Would "Aal Imran" work, as it would also make clear the fact that the word in question is not the definite article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moaz786 (talk • contribs) 01:28, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Sun letter assimilation
I kinda think it's not-OK how most of the links are dead due to the person who added the link using different Romanization than that used in the title of the corresponding article: 1) the links don't assimilate the lām in al- to following sun letters while the article titles do; 2) the links mark vowel length and pharyngealization while the article titles don't. In a few installments I'm going to fix all those links. But I'm just wondering if the text in the links should show the assimilation (why on Earth wouldn't/don't they?)Cromulant (talk) 22:29, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Surah 17
surah 17 title is currently published as Bani Israel, it should be Al Israel, which means the ascension. 24.157.163.44 (talk) 01:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)