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

[Zoltan Boka]

Tajweed, or sometimes Tajwid, refers to the rules for reciting the Koran- pronunciation, rhythm and such. There is no reason for most non Muslims to know about this and it is a more involved issue than simple belief and unbelief. 

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On Mar 6, 2013, at 3:23 PM, "Otto Lassen" <otto at lassen.mail.dk> wrote:

> Eric Atwell  started a discussion 28.2 about how
> vocabulary related to Islam figures in British dictionaries
> and corpora. He found one word, "tajweed", which did not figure.
> But there are many islamic words in the dictionaries
> and many which are  not in the dictionaries, so I wonder
> how the choice of including / excluding words is made
> and what are the effect of this choice on the users?
> I tried with another word, "kafir" (or “kaffir”), which
> means infidel, disbeliever, unbeliever.
> You find it in the online versions of Oxford English Dictionary
> and Collins English Dictionary but not in Longman
> Dicitionary of Contemporary English nor in British National Corpus.
> The encyclopedias (Britannica, Wikipedia) have it naturally.
> So why is "kafir" better represented than "tajweed"?
> A proposal for a solution could be that "kafir" is used in 
> the Qur'an many times. In Shakir's translation there are 
> 400 hits for disbeliev.. and unbeliev..... For every 3 pages
> 2 has them The contrast between believers and
> unbelievers is in that way basic for the Qur'an and
> for its influence on the readers. Unbelievers are described
> very negatively. The concept of "kafir" is part of the belief
> of the 5% muslims in England but must be known by
> everybody because it concerns all. Therefore the
> choice of "kafir" to the dictionaries. “Tajweed" tells only
> how to recite verses from the Qur’an.
> But this may not be  the only explanation of the choice
> of including / excluding islamic words in dictionaries.
> Regards
> Otto Lassen
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