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Page 761
... Arabic writers , contemptuous of non - Muslim socie- ties , passed on little of what they must have known about the organization of pagan Negro societies , and tended mainly to concentrate on and condemn what struck them as their more ...
... Arabic writers , contemptuous of non - Muslim socie- ties , passed on little of what they must have known about the organization of pagan Negro societies , and tended mainly to concentrate on and condemn what struck them as their more ...
Page 1044
... Arabs and Jews showed great interest in matters pertaining to their languages and writings . Important contributions ... Arabic , and Syriac . The books of this first period are of no more than historical interest today . In contrast to ...
... Arabs and Jews showed great interest in matters pertaining to their languages and writings . Important contributions ... Arabic , and Syriac . The books of this first period are of no more than historical interest today . In contrast to ...
Page 1088
... Arabic , as well as medicine , physics , and a number of other natural sciences . There is an agricultural college , found- ed at Şan'a ' with Egyptian aid in the late 1930s and about ten vocational and polytechnic schools , including ...
... Arabic , as well as medicine , physics , and a number of other natural sciences . There is an agricultural college , found- ed at Şan'a ' with Egyptian aid in the late 1930s and about ten vocational and polytechnic schools , including ...
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