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Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires QUOTES

Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires QUOTES

1 " Perfume the literature you write with only the finest inks,
for literature works are luscious girls, and ink their precious perfume.
—Arabic saying ~800 AD "

― , Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

2 " In Arabic ‘the written symbol is considered to be identical with the sound indicated by it’. Letters are not just phonetic; they are phonic, acoustic,’… script that fills the ears of him that sees it’, as poet al-Mutanabbi was to call them. "

― , Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

3 " By Allah! Never have I seen the discipline I’ve seen this day, and in men who have come from here, there and everywhere . . . No, not among the noble Persians, nor the Byzantines with their braided locks! "

― , Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires