Muqatta'at
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The mysterious letters (muqaṭṭaʿāt, ḥurūf muqaṭṭaʿāt, "disjoined letters" or "disconnected letters") are combinations of between one and five Arabic letters that appear at the beginning of 29 out of the 114 chapters (surahs) of the Quran just after the Bismillāh Islamic phrase. The letters are also known as fawātiḥ () or "openers" as they form the opening verse of their respective surahs.
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- Part of
- Ar-Raʻd
- Has part
- ي
- Religion
- Islam
- Author
- God in Islam
- Genre
- religious text
- Country of origin
- Hejaz
- Series
- surah
- Based on
- Tanzil
- Depicts
- Quran and miracles
- Narrative location
- Arabian Peninsula
- Image
- Sura Mariam-1.JPG
- Has use
- worship in Islam
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- facet of
- waḥy
- language of work or name
- Quranic Arabic
- name in native language
- حروف مقطعة
- has cause
- waḥy
- studied by
- Arabic studies
- used by
- Muslim
- hashtag
- Muqatta'at
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5
- collection or exhibition size
- 29
- Commons category
- Muqatta'at Letters Verses of Quran
- location of creation
- Medina
- inception
- 0631-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
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The mysterious letters (muqaṭṭaʿāt, ḥurūf muqaṭṭaʿāt, "disjoined letters" or "disconnected letters") are combinations of between one and five Arabic letters that appear at the beginning of 29 out of the 114 chapters (surahs) of the Quran just after the Bismillāh Islamic phrase. The letters are also known as fawātiḥ () or "openers" as they form the opening verse of their respective surahs.
Four (or five) chapters are named for their muqaṭṭaʿāt: Ṭā-Hā, Yā-Sīn, Ṣād, Qāf, and sometimes Nūn.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Muqatta'at” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.