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    Amr and ‘Umar

    Saturday, July 12th, 2008

    The name ‘Umar, in Arabic, contains a waw at the end when written. But this waw is not pronounced; why does it exist? To find out, we need to travel back to the beginning of the Arabic language, back when no dots or tashkeel existed in the written language.