Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Federation of Islamic Nations

Arabic translation:

الاتِّحاد الإسـلاميّ، اتِّحاد الدُوَل الإسلاميّة، اتِّحاد الشُعُوب الإسـلاميّة، اتِّحاد الأُمَم الإسـلاميّة

Added to glossary by Fuad Yahya
Dec 7, 2001 04:26
22 yrs ago
English term

Federation of Islamic Nations

Non-PRO English to Arabic Art/Literary
Background history for a website set in the future

Proposed translations

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Is your web site related to Warpfish?

I am referring to the futuristic war game web site cited by Saleh above.

The term used there is "the Islamic Federation." That would be translated as AL-ITTIHAD AL-ISLAMIYY, written:

الاتِّحاد الإسـلاميّ

This title avoids the whole issue of one nation versus many nations.

Fuad
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Sorry I could not reply before. This was due to family matters. Thank for this, and no it is not related to warpfish."
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Is this a name of an existing organization?

To the best of my knowledge, Islamic nations are members of an organization called "Organisation of Islamic Conference." The spelling is British. In Arabic it is called

منظمة المؤتمر الإسـلامي

Pronounced: MUNAZH-ZHAMAT AL-MU'TAMAR AL-ISLAMIYY

If "Federation of Islamic Nations" is a hypothetical organization, I would translate the phrase as follows:

اتحاد الأمم الإسـلامية

Pronounced: ITTIHAD AL-UMAM AL-ISLAMIYYA

Fuad
Peer comment(s):

agree Mona Helal
1 hr
agree Stephen Franke : Kalaam mazhboot. كلام مضبوط
4 hrs
agree Raghad
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One more suggestion

Again, if this is merely a hypothetical organization, you may want to name it Federation of Isalmic States rather than Nations. Muslims tend to speak of themselves as one nation, despite the multiplicity of polities. In Arabic that would be ITTIHAD AL-DUWAL AL-ISLAMIYYA

اتحاد الدول الإسـلامية

Fuad
Peer comment(s):

agree AhmedAMS
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agree Stephen Franke : This seems most apropos in the context Fuad presnets
1 hr
agree Raghad : other possibility: ittihad al-ummah al islamiyyah (nation/singular)
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9 hrs

AL-Ittihad Al-Isla'ami Lil-Umam El-Eslameyya

This is based on my current experience in the field of immigration and refugee cases, where I would expect to hear all sort of names or combination of words. Any way, the words "Federation" and "Islamic" do exist together (i.e. in the attached reference;) and on that bases I would propose a relatively different answer to meet the source context requirement; and leave the question if such an organization/Federation do exist or not to the source.
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