Translator Guidelines

Transliteration Guidelines Arabic romanization in  iWordview Journal refers to the transliteration system of Library of Congress (LC) combined with the model of Department of Religious Affairs of Indonesia which based on Joint Decree Letter between Ministry of Religious Affairs and Ministry of Education and Cultural.

 

 

No.	Arab	Latin
1	ا	Tidak dilambangkan
2	ب	b
3	ت	t
4	ث	ts
5	ج	j
6	ح	ḥ
7	خ	kh
8	د	d
9	ذ	dz
10	ر	r
11	ز	z
12	س	s
13	ش	sy
14	ص	ṣ
15	ض	ḍ

                                          

No.	Arab	Latin
16	ط	ṭ
17	ظ	ẓ
18	ع	‘
19	غ	gh
20	ف	f
21	ق	q
22	ك	k
23	ل	l
24	م	m
25	ن	n
26	و	w
27	ه	h
28	ء	‘
29	ي	y

 

 

 

1. The transliteration system of Library of Congress (LC) and Department of Religious Affairs of Indonesi:

For madd and diphtongs:

 

Diphtong	Madd
َ = a, example: كَتَبَ	a madd = ā, example: كِتَابٌ
ِ = i, example: كِتَابٌ	i madd = ī, example: حِيْنٌ
ُ = u, example: كُتِبَ	u madd = ū, example: يَقُوْلُ

 

 

Examples:

1. The Person’s name is written in Indonesian without transliteration.

 

Example: Al-Ghazali, not al-Ghazālī, written as usual and not italic.

 

2. For the foreign terms are not entered into the Indonesian language, written as the original and italics, instead of the underscore.

 

Example: al-qawāid al-fiqhiyyah; isyrāqiyyah; ‘urwah al-wutsqā

 

While foreign terms that have been popular and entry into Indonesia language, written in plain, without transliteration.

 

Example: al-Qur’an, not al-Qur’ān; objektif, not objektive.

 

3. The title of the book is written as the original and italics.

Example: irsyād al-fuḥūl