I'd say the same reason the Spanish Wikipedia article for Alhambra uses La in front of Alhambra even though Al is the article in Arabic. https://es.wikipedia.o

I'd say the same reason the Spanish Wikipedia article for Alhambra uses La in front of Alhambra even though Al is the article in Arabic. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra Native speakers usualllly ignore the articles from another language unless there was a cultural reason not to. It also just sounds better to my native ear.