Re: Ibd AlMadzjid Bin Dzjalon?

"Yusuf B Gursey" <ybg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
>> frans wrote:
>> > Hello to all!
>> > A friend has bought a book while on a trip in Morroco, and she likes
it 
>> > very
>> > very much. Now she tries to find more books of this writer, novels or
>> > poetry, in Arabic or in English, but she has not been able to find
>> > any.....in the Netherlands (thats were she lives).
>> > Perhaps someone here knows this writer?
>> > From Arabic to Latin - how do I write it...?: Ibd AlMadzjid Bin 
>> > Dzjalon...?
>>
>>
>> in classcial arabic it is 3bdu~l-maji:di~bnu jallu:n (I think the last
>> /l/ is doubled)
>>
>> Abdalmajid bin Jalloun is acceptable. but arabic names don't have a
>
> or ben instead of bin
>
>> standard romanization.
>>


Thanks very much!!!
With your help, Google has brought me to: Abdelmajid Ben Jelloun, and to
the 
info I was looking for.
Thanks!!
f.