Questions about using TeX for typesetting documents in Arabic script.

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How to highlight arabic texts with allowing line breaks?

I would like to highlight some texts. For Latin texts the \hl command of the soul package works well, but not for Arabic texts. (\hl{SOME ARABIC TEXT} has only a small line as output in the pdf ...
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Change font type in arabtext

I wrote an Arabic paragraph \begin{arabtext} \begin{center} \Large{\textbf{معادلةُ زُمْرةِ إعادة التقنين لنموذجيْ بينر المتعامدُ و المترابط }}\\ \vspace{0.5cm} \large{إعدادُ }\\ ...
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Author with Arabic Name

I am writing an paper (in English) and one of the authors of a paper I'm citing name is in Arabic. The article is written in English. The BibTex entry: @article{kotini, jstor_articletype = ...
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Writing the shahada with arabtex

I'm not familiar with the Arabic alphabet, but would like to write the shahada in the two ways displayed below using pdflatex, for inclusion in a paper. How can I do it? Is arabtex the way to go? ...
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bidi's undefined environments in (my) LuaLaTeX system

I typeset Arabic text with LuaLaTeX. I am using the following definitions and it works nicely: \newcommand{\arabtext}[1] % Arabic inside LTR {\bgroup\luatextextdir TRT\arabicfont #1\egroup} ...
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adobe arabic font does not render ligatures with arabxetex

If I set a font to another font, say, \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic]{Adobe Naskh Medium}, the results are fine regardless of whether I input the text in ascii or use arabic characters: ...