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Arabic terms are normalised before they are matched: hamza forms are folded together, alef maqsura and yaa are treated as one, and taa marbuta matches haa. You can type a term the way you write it and still find a record catalogued the other way.

When normalisation changed your query, the results page says so. It is stated rather than silent, because a search that quietly searched for something else is worse than one that found nothing.

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Last updated
31 Aug 2026
Published
7 Aug 2026
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