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Also known as disjoined letters, disconnected letters, mysterious letters, openers, opening letters

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.

Wikidata facts

Part of
Ar-Raʻd
Has part
ي
Religion
Islam
Country of origin
Hejaz
Series
surah
Based on
Tanzil
Narrative location
Arabian Peninsula
Image
Sura Mariam-1.JPG
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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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Encyclopedic overview

14 sections
Contents
  • Interpretations
  • Enigmatic / obscurative
  • Illustrative
  • Explanatory
  • [[Acrophony]] / abbreviations
  • Other theories
  • Mystical inferences
  • In other religions
  • Inventory
  • Structural analysis
  • See also
  • References
  • Sources
  • External links

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.

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