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Amharic

الأمهرية

Ethiopia's official language; Abyssinian Muslims wrote in Arabic and Amharic, in one of Islam's earliest communities.

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The official language of Ethiopia. The Muslims of Abyssinia have written works in Arabic and Amharic, and there are the oldest Muslim communities there. 1

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islam.museum contributors. “Amharic”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/language/amharic/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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God teaches Adam the names

Sha'rawi holds that God taught Adam all the names by an inspiration cast into his heart, that language is not heredity or environment but imitation of what one hears, and that every knowledge ends at a first teacher, who is God.