2012 Event Pope Benedict XVI adds Arabic to the number of languages broadcasting the weekly Vatican address 1988 Event Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize 1976 Event Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi 1948 Event Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine 1948 Event Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan, King of Palestine 1946 Death Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered 1928 Event Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet 1871 Event Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, New York City 1867 Death Salomon Munk, published Arabic edition of Maimounides, dies 1331 Death Aboe al-Fida, Aboelfeda, Arabic writer/sultan of Hama, dies 1199 Event Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew 1048 Death Al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74 1002 Death Al-Mansur, Arabic general strategist/regent of Cordoba, dies 967 Death Aboe al-Faradj al-Isfahani, Arabic author (Book of liederen), dies 965 Death Aboe a-Taia-H al-Moetanabbi, Arabic royal poet (Diwan), murdered 883 Death Albumasar, Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi, Arabic astronomer, dies 813 Death al-Amin, Arabic kalief of Islam (809-813), murdered 786 Death Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86), dies 644 Death Omar I, Arabic 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered 641 Event Arabic/Islamic army contrasts with the Hippo over Alexandria 634 Death Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies 580 Birthday Mohammed, Arabic prophet/founder, Islam
