Sentence:  In Rabghuzi's "Stories of the Prophets", a teacher asked Jesus, who was seven years old at the time, to repeat the alphabet and the <WSD>"abjad</WSD>" by rote. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A writing system for Arabic, historically also employed as a numeral system, in which there is one glyph (symbol or letter) for each consonant but vowels are not specified.