Maqsurah (Arabic: مقصورة, literally "closed-off space") is an enclosure, box, or wooden screen near the mihrab or the center of the qibla wall in a mosque...

the ʾalif maqṣūrah (أَلِف مَقْصُورَة) "limited/restricted alif", with the form ى. It indicates a final long /aː/. In Arabic, alif maqṣūrah is the letter...

vowel /ə/. Alif maqsurah is transliterated as á in ALA-LC, ā in DIN 31635, à in ISO 233-2, and ỳ in ISO 233. In Arabic, alif maqsurah ى is not used initially...

of spelling the same sound in the Arabic script, e.g. alif ا vs. alif maqṣūrah ى for the sound /aː/ ā, and the six different ways (ء إ أ آ ؤ ئ) of writing...

number of ancient manuscripts. Similar to the Great Mosque of Damascus, a maqsurah was built in the form of a square domed room raised by one step above the...

is dotless in the isolated and final position, merging with the ʾalif maqṣūrah ى. can be considered a letter and plays an important role in Arabic spelling...

Imamzada Yayha in Veramin, Iran and now is installed at a museum in Hawaii. Maqsurah Exedra K. A. C. Creswell and some later scholars argued that the oldest...

only the initial vowel is transliterated (if pronounced): i-. (ﻯ) ʾalif maqṣūrah appears as ā, transliterating it indistinguishable from ʾalif. Long vowels...

rests on an alif maqṣūrah or occasionally alif. When definite, they are not marked, and they simply retain their long alif or alif maqṣūrah. An example is...

his Omani ancestry, his poetry contains some distinctly Omani themes. Maqṣūrah (مقصورة) i.e. "Compartment", or "Short Alif" (maqsūr); also known as Kasīda;...

Egyptians do not use dots under final yā’ (ي), which looks exactly like alif maqṣūrah (ى) in handwriting and in print. This practice is also used in copies of...

word Pushish (also the "covered part", exactly as "Al Mughatta") or the Maqsurah (a part-for-the-whole synecdoche). The building is also referred to as...

al-ʾalif Hamzah ʿalā al-yāʾ Hamzah ʿalā al-wāw al-ʾalif al-mamdūda ʾalif maqṣūrah (farsi yā’) ة َ ُ ِ ّ ْ ٓ tāʾ marbūṭah fatḥa ḍammah kasrah shaddah sukūn...

in 958) and his son al-Hakam II added a richly-decorated new mihrab and maqsurah section (finished in 971). The mosque was converted to a cathedral in 1236...

/aː/ in the Classical language). This is the apparent source of the alif maqṣūrah 'restricted alif' where a final /-aja/ is reconstructed: a letter that...

over the street between them, allowing the caliph direct access to the maqsurah area of the mosque via a corridor behind the qibla wall. The first sabbat...

and ⟨ں⟩ are never used in Arabic. While a dotless ⟨ى⟩ ("ألف مقصورة alif maqṣūrah") is used for /aː/ in some words (instead of ⟨ا⟩), and a dotted ⟨ه⟩; ⟨ة⟩...

word Pushish (also the "covered part," exactly as "Al Mughatta") or the Maqsurah (a part-for-the-whole synecdoche). During the period of Mamluk (1250–1517)...

064A ي FEF1 ﻱ FEF2 ﻲ FEF4 ﻴ FEF3 ﻳ yāʾ 0622 آ FE81 ﺁ FE82 ﺂ ʾalif maddah 0629 ة FE93 ﺓ FE94 ﺔ — — Tāʾ marbūṭah 0649 ى FEEF ﻯ FEF0 ﻰ — — ʾalif maqṣūrah...

U+064A ye يى‎ ى‎ ـى‎ ـىـ‎ ىـ‎ /ə, a/ -e pepet (ĕ), a Also known as alif maqsurah (الف مقصورة‎) Mainly used in loanwords of European origin U+0649 nya ڽا‎...

Ştş ştş Shch shch — شش‎ Sheen + Sheen ⠭ — Ъ ъ — ⠷ [ə] Ы ы Y y ى‎ Alif maqṣūrah ⠮ [ɘ] І і I ı I i ئ‎ Hamza + Ya ⠊ — Ь ь — ⠾ [ɛ] Э э E e — ە‎ Ha ⠪ [jʊ]...

Dikka (or müezzin mahfili) Gonbad Hussainiya Imamzadeh Kiswah Loudspeakers Maqsurah Mihrab Minaret Minbar Qibla Zarih Decorations (For overview, see Islamic...

43' Kīṭāʾīl* كيطَائِيل ʾAl-Jab'hah ﭐلْجَبْهَة y , ī / ā , ỳ yāʾ / alif maqṣūrah 10 ي \ ى 11th 14 Aug 8° 34' Leo Arabic: بُرْجُ ﭐلْأَسَد, romanized: burju...

than five or six blocks of stone. These colonnades lead down to near the Maqsurah. Under Az-Zahir's successor al-Mustansir Billah, the Fatimid Caliphate...

all attendees, by being placed in the focal point of artistry, or with a maqsurah. Maintaining a sociological hierarchy within a mosque would typically represent...

architecture, a pillared outdoor hall or pavilion for public rituals. Maqsurah (maqsura) In Islamic architecture, the sanctuary or praying-chamber in...

person masculine singular past, regular ا ʾalif appears instead of ى ʾalif maqṣūrah: hence دَعَا, not *دَعَى. The otiose final alif appears only after the...

are spelled in Arabic script with a "tall alif" (ـا) rather than alif maqṣūrah (ـی). Examples are ʻaṣan عصاً "stick" (and possibly riḍan رضاً "approval")...

clerestory in one of the domes. Other interior features include an arcuate maqsurah screen, trabeate hypostyle lwan, double square side wings, zanana enclosure...

Dikka (or müezzin mahfili) Gonbad Hussainiya Imamzadeh Kiswah Loudspeakers Maqsurah Mihrab Minaret Minbar Qibla Zarih Decorations (For overview, see Islamic...