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| | Period Arabic Names and Naming Practices (2nd edition) |
 | | Throughout period many names followed the pattern of kunya + ism + laqab ( Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Mustansir), or kunya + ism + nasab ( Abu Muhammad Hamid ibn al-‘Abbas), even by peoples who adopted Islam (and Arabic naming practices) like the Seljuk Turks ( Abu’l-Qasim Mahmud ibn Zengi ibn Aqsunqur). |
| | Arabic name elements may be divided into five main categories, with the last category having several sub-types. |
| | "Arabic names won't go into English, exactly, for their consonants are not the same as ours, and their words, like ours, vary from district to district. |
| www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/names/arabic-naming2.htm |
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