Intelligent soundex function for Arabic names

This paper, attempts to explain new and useful search function, which are used in searching and retrieving names written in Arabic language, which can be stored in a database of digital library. We called this function Arabic Soundex Function (ASF), and we present the steps of its algorithm. ASF was designed by using fuzzy logic to determine the 'degree of closeness' between the compared names, and it shows good results in three root letters Arabic names.