Re: `bin' or `ibn' Ladin?

En réponse à David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

>     And, of course, I meant [?asaam], not [?asaan].  Oops!  And the way
> they
> keep starting it with "o" makes me wonder if it's not an alef waw
> initial
> cluster which can give rise to [o] in some dialects.
>
> -David
>
I thought that the first vowel of his first name was 'u' [?usaam] (I've seen it
written Usama a lot, and I though that [o] was a usual rendition of /u/ in many
dialects). Oh! And I found this about the ibn/bin problem
(http://libweb.princeton.edu/katmandu/persian/percat.html):

"Arabic word ibn or bin

Arabic word ibn or bin "son of" occurring in names of the Islamic type usually
appear in Persian Orthography as ibn at the beginning of a name and as bin
(abbreviated in the middle of the name).
Always use ibn."

So maybe that's the answer for this problem.

Christophe.

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