February 2012
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January 2012
The flag’s taking off for that filthy place, and our jargon’s...
– Arthur Rimbaud, “Democracy”
Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from...
– Zhuangzi
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The Letters of Remission… for the period of the Hundred Years War,...
– “The Legend of the Christian Middle Ages”, Catholicism between Luther and Voltaire: A New View of the Counter-Reformation, Jean Delumeau
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On the 16th of Sha’ban a person called Yusuf al-Qamini died. He used...
– Tarajim, Abu Shama, quoted in “Sacred Topography”, The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria, Josef W. Meri
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I was told by al-Hasan ibn-‘Ulayl, on the authority of ‘Ali...
– Kitab al-Asnam (Book of Idols), Hisham ibn-Al-Kalbi
Abu-al-Mundhir Hishim ibn-Muhammad said: Al-Kalbi related on the authority of...
– Kitab al-Asnam (Book of Idols), Hisham ibn-Al-Kalbi
We were told by al-‘Anazi abu-‘Ali that ‘Ali ibn-al-Sabbah had...
– Kitab al-Asnam (The Book of Idols), Hisham ibn-Al-Kalbi
The Quraysh had also several idols in and around the Ka’bah. The greatest...
– Kitab al-Asnam (The Book of Idols), Hisham ibn-Al-Kalbi
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