[Corpora-List] "Tajweed" in English dictionaries and corpora

[Eric Atwell]

Can anyone point me at research on vocabulary related to Islam,
and how it figures in British dictionaries and corpora?
(other than "Terrorism" of course - well-researched by corpus linguists :-)

We have a UK-EPSRC project on "Natural Language Processing Working
Together With Arabic And Islamic Studies", focussing on Tajweed.
I've just discovered a Quite Interesting fact about Tajweed:

It is worth noting that even though "Tajweed" is a term understood by
most British muslims (2.7 million or 5% of the UK population according
to UK Census 2011), the word is left out of most British English
dictionaries: it is not found in the Oxford English Dictionary, the
Collins English Dictionary, or the Longman Dicitionary of Contemporary
English. "Tajweed" is also not found in the 100-million-word British
National Corpus, although Google search for "tajweed" reports "About
1,800,000 results".

The only English-language "dictionary definition" I could find for
"Tajweed" was in Wikipedia:

Tajw.d (Arabic: ...... ta.w.d: IPA: [tæ.wi.d]) is an Arabic word for
elocution and refers to the rules governing pronunciation during
recitation of the Qur'an.

I would have thought that, although the word is Arabic by origin, it is 
now a fully-British English loan word, used by many British English 
speakers....


Eric Atwell, Associate Professor, Language research group,
  I-AIBS Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Biological Systems
  School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
  Leeds LS2 9JT, England.        TEL: 0113-3435430  FAX: 0113-3435468
  WWW: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric
       http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/nlp
       http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic
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