The Basmala
Basmala (Arabic: بسملة basmala), also known by its incipit Bismillah (Arabic: بسم الله, "In the name of God")[1], is the name of the Islamic phrase bi-smi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful". This is the phrase recited before each sura (chapter) of the Qur'an – except for the ninth.[Notes 1][2] It is used by Muslims in various contexts (for instance, during daily prayer) and is used in over half of the constitutions of countries where
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Coordinates: 29°30′N 45°45′E / 29.500°N 45.750°E / 29.500; 45.750State of Kuwait دولة الكويت (Arabic) Dawlat al-KuwaitFlagEmblemAnthem: "Al-Nasheed Al-Watani" "National Anthem"Location of Kuwait (green)Capital and largest city Kuwait
Kuwait City 29°22′N 47°58′E / 29.367°N 47.967°E / 29.367; 47.967Official languages ArabicEthnic groups60%
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A preamble is an introductory and expressionary statement in a document that explains the document's purpose and underlying philosophy
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Arabic Presentation Forms-A is a Unicode block encoding contextual forms and ligatures of letter variants needed for Persian, Urdu, Sindhi and Central Asian languages
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Coordinates: 24°N 54°E / 24°N 54°E / 24; 54United Arab Emiratesدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة (Arabic)Dawlat al-ʾImārāt al-ʿArabīyyah al-Muttaḥidah Flag Emblem Anthem: عيشي بلادي"Īšiy Bilādī""Long Live My Nation"Location of United Arab Emirates (green)in the Arabian Peninsula (white)CapitalAbu Dhabi24°28′N 54°22′E / 24.467°N 54.367°E / 24.467; 54.367Largest cityDubai25°15′N 55°18′E / 25.250°N 55.300°E / 25.250; 55.300Official languagesArabicEthnic groups 27.8% Indian12% Emirati10.2% Pakistani9.5% Bangladeshi6.1% Filipino4.76% Iranian4.23% Egyptian2.2% Chinese14.1% OthersReligion IslamDemonym(s)Emirati[1]GovernmentFederal constitutional monarchy[2]• President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan• Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Makt
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Islam
Islam (state religion; 99.1% Sunni[9] others (1%; including Christian, Jewish, Shia, Bahá'í)[9]Demonym TunisianGovernment Unitary semi-presidential republic[12][13]• PresidentBeji Caid Essebsi• Head of GovernmentYoussef ChahedLegislature Assembly of the Representatives of the PeopleFormation• Husainid Dynasty
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Coordinates: 30°N 70°E / 30°N 70°E / 30; 70 Islamic Republic
Islamic Republic of Pakistan اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاكِستان (Urdu) Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān[1]FlagEmblemMotto: Īmān, Ittihād, Nazam ایمان، اتحاد، نظم (Urdu) "Faith, Unity, Discipline" [2]Anthem: Qaumī Tarānah قَومی ترانہ "The National Anthem"[3]Area controlled by
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The Maldives
Maldives (/ˈmɒldiːvz/ or /ˈmɔːldaɪvz/ ( listen); Dhivehi: ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ Dhivehi Raa'jey), officially the Republic of Maldives, is a South Asian island country, located in the Indian Ocean, situated in the Arabian Sea. It lies southwest of Sri Lanka and India. The chain of 26 atolls stretches from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll
Atoll in the north to the Addu City
Addu City in the south. Comprising a territory spanning roughly 298 square kilometres (115 sq mi), the Maldives
Maldives is one of the world's most geographically dispersed countries, as well as the smallest Asian country by both land area and population, with around 427,756 inhabitants
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Libya
Libya (/ˈlɪbiə/ ( listen); Arabic: ليبيا),[6][7] officially the State of Libya
Libya (Arabic: دولة ليبيا Dawlat Lībyā),[citation needed][dubious – discuss] is a sovereign state in the Maghreb
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Maghreb region of North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt
Egypt to the east, Sudan
Sudan to the southeast, Chad
Chad and Niger
Niger to the south, and Algeria
Algeria and Tunisia
Tunisia to the west. The country is made of three historical regions, Tripolitania, Fezzan, and Cyrenaica
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The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages
Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals" (hence the term consonantal root). Such abstract consonantal roots are used in the formation of actual words by adding the vowels and non-root consonants (or "transfixes") which go with a particular morphological category around the root consonants, in an appropriate way, generally following specific patterns
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Coordinates: 33°N 44°E / 33°N 44°E / 33; 44 Republic
Republic of Iraqجمهورية العراق (Arabic) کۆماری عێراق (Kurdish)FlagCoat of armsMotto: الله أكبر (Arabic) "Allahu Akbar" (transliteration) "God is the Greatest"Anthem: "Mawtini" "موطني" (English: "My Homeland")Capital and largest city Baghdad 33°20′N 44°26′E / 33.333°N 44.433°E / 33.333; 44.433Official languagesArabic KurdishReligion IslamDemonym IraqiGovernment Federal p
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Iran
Iran (Persian: ایران Irān [ʔiːˈɾɒːn] ( listen)), also known as Persia[10] (/ˈpɜːrʒə/),[11] officially the Islamic Republic
Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: جمهوری اسلامی ایران Jomhuri-ye Eslāmi-ye Irān ( listen)),[12] is a sovereign state in Western Asia.[13][14] With over 81 million inhabitants,[6] Iran
Iran is the world's 18th-most-populous country.[15] Comprising a land area of 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi), it is the second-largest country in the Middle East
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Middle East and the 17th-largest in the world
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Coordinates: 26°N 30°E / 26°N 30°E / 26; 30Arab Republic
Republic of Egyptجمهورية مصر العربيةArabic: Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʿArabīyahEgyptian: Gomhoreyet Maṣr El ʿArabeyahFlagCoat of armsAnthem: "Bilady, Bilady, Bilady" "بلادي، بلادي، بلادي" "My country, my country, my country"Capital and largest city Cairo 30°2′N 31°13′E / 30.033°N 31.217°E / 30.033; 31.217Official languages Arabic[a]National language Egyptian ArabicReligion90% Islam 9% Orthodox Christian 1% Other Christian[1]Demonym EgyptianGovernment Unitary semi-presidential republic• PresidentAbdel Fattah el-Sisi• Prime MinisterSherif IsmailLegislature House of RepresentativesEstablishment• Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt[2][3][b]c
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Coordinates: 4°30′N 114°40′E / 4.500°N 114.667°E / 4.500; 114.667 Southeast Asian
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Southeast Asian coastal sovereign state Nation of Brunei, the Abode of PeaceNegara Brunei
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Coordinates: 23°48′N 90°18′E / 23.8°N 90.3°E / 23.8; 90.3People's Republic
Republic of Bangladeshগণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ (Bengali) Gaṇaprajātantrī BāṃlādēśaFlagEmblemAnthem: "Amar Sonar Bangla" (Bengali) "My Golden Bengal"March: "Notuner Gaan" "The Song of Youth"[1]Government Seal of BangladeshCapital and largest city Dhaka 23°42′N 90°21′E / 23.700°N 90.350°E / 23.700; 90.350Official languages Bengali[2]Ethnic groups (2011[
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Bahrain
Bahrain (/bɑːˈreɪn/ ( listen); Arabic: البحرين al-Baḥrayn IPA: [aɫ baħrajn] ( listen)), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain
Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين Mamlakat al-Baḥrayn), is an Arab
Arab constitutional monarchy in the Persian Gulf. It is an island country consisting of a small archipelago centered around Bahrain
Bahrain Island, situated between the Qatar peninsula and the north eastern coast of Saudi Arabia, to which it is connected by the 25-kilometre (16 mi) King
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King Fahd Causeway. Bahrain's population is 1,234,571 (c
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