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Sidi Mustafa Briggs:"When you read the story of Musa and Khidr in Surah al-Kahf, know that you are Musa and life is Khidr." Sidi Mustafa Briggs:"Many people don't know that
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Berina
anirebee
A friend asked me why Bosnians sometimes get offended when people claim we speak the same language as Serbs and Croats and are just a dialect of Serbo-Croatian. I’m no
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David Bowles (hiatus to write GÜERO sequel) 🏳️🌈
DavidOBowles
Nearly anywhere you go, a certain combination of trumpets & violins will elicit a similar response: listeners will immediately think of Mexico, feeling an urge to throw a hat onto
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Polla Garmiany ☀️
PollaGarmiany
Let's react to this with actual facts & not insults. A thread:If you were able to read the Arabic script, you would've known that racism has fooled you all. This
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Taras Press - مطبعة طرس
PressTaras
Taras Press takes its name from طرس\طرش (among other references)- the medieval Arabic practice of engraving moulds to print amulets as early as the 9th c. - examples of prints
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True Indology
TIinExile
Arabs taught us exponentials? FYI, exponentials were known as "Uss Al Hind" in Classical Arabic."Indians excelled all other countries in Maths, astronomy ,medicine & science"- Arabic scholar Andalusi in 11th
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ᴮᴱ sei⁷
btsinpics
@ people who speak more than one language, what language do you think in? quarantine day idk i think in english, french and arabic, it's kind of a mixture of
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ves
bwqwex
middle-eastern/arabic folk music thread this music is so intense and emotional that you either love it or hate it, there's no in-betweenhere are some of my favorites we start with
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Dr Whoomis
chapel3929
The #LiveTweetTuesday of the Frank Stallone joint TERROR IN BEVERLY HILLS BEGINS...NO...NOW #LiveTweetTuesday Just opening and I’m pretty sure this is shot on VHS Will Frank Stallone solve the Israeli
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Marijn "i before j" van Putten
PhDniX
In the Quran, God is referred to in three places (Q2:255; Q3:2; Q20:111) as al-ḥayy al-qayyūm "The Living, The All-Sustaining". ʿUmar ibn al-Ḫaṭṭāb , the second Islamic caliph, is attributed
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Obaid Omer
obaidomer
Thread on this 1/nHere are two quotes on free enquiry one by ibn al-Haytham and one by Mill they are about 800 years apart. To say free speech is a
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Marijn "i before j" van Putten
PhDniX
The tenth century Jewish scholar Saadya Gaon is a central figure who established the literary standard of Judeo-Arabic writing with his monumental translation of the Hebrew Bible into Arabic. A
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Nesrin Amin (Bilmasri)
bilmasripodcast
Teaching translation in the age of an ever-more awesome Google Translate - thread (I know I’m Twitter-invisible so please do share to anyone who may want to engage) /1 So
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Embedding Conquest Team
EmCoteam
While working on this 5th/11th-century contract of sale of a share of a mill in al-Ashmunayn (ancient Hermopolis) in Middle Egypt it struck me how many expressions and phrases are
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DLo
dan_a_lowe
A rare find in BL Arabic backlog: catalogue of al-Maktabah al-'Umūmīyah in Damascus, published 1881/2 It even still has the supplier's invoice inside.
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Sean W. Anthony
shahanSean
My shit view: At the root of this Islamic Studies + Arabic divide is that the secular academy has taken a theological category (“Islam”) and deracinated from its community(s) and
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