Talk:Abdul Masih (missionary)

Latest comment: 13 years ago by SamuelTheGhost in topic His name was Abdul Masih

His name was Abdul Masih

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Interesting new article, but marred by the frequent references to this man as "Abdul". Abdul Masih is a single given name, meaning "servant of the Messiah". "Abdul" is half a name, meaning "servant of the", which is sometimes erroneously treated by English speakers as a single name. In this article that form would be better not used except when directly quoting from sources which also do so. I notice that in the one reference which is on line the abbreviated form "Masih" is used, which is indeed the traditional way of shortening such names.--SamuelTheGhost (talk) 10:11, 15 March 2011 (UTC)Reply