Arabic in Cards

Series of documented cards on Arabic: what scholars said of it, and what it carried into the world's languages, skies and sciences. Each series has two colours of its own, and every card comes in Arabic and English, to download and share.

What They Said About the Arabs and Arabic

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What They Said About the Arabs and Arabic

Scholars, Arab and non-Arab, on Arabic – each in the original words, with its source and how well it is attested.

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Stars with Arabic Names

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Stars with Arabic Names

Stars you can see tonight, whose names are Arabic – carried into Latin and changed on the way.

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English Words from Arabic

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English Words from Arabic

Everyday English words, each with a journey from Arabic – and some came back home.

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Arabic in the Sciences

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Arabic in the Sciences

Scientific books in Arabic, and what they did to Europe's sciences and universities.

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Kept Alive in Arabic

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Kept Alive in Arabic

Greek books lost in whole or in part, whose missing parts survive only in their Arabic translation.

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Words Arabic Took In

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Words Arabic Took In

Zīj, astrolabe, falsafa: words Arabic took from others and shaped to its own patterns.

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Plants with Arabic Names

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Plants with Arabic Names

Trees and flowers whose scientific names, used by botanists in every language, carry the name of a scholar who wrote in Arabic, or an Arabic word; and plants that carried their Arabic names into European languages.

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Arabic in the Languages of Muslim Peoples

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Arabic in the Languages of Muslim Peoples

One Arabic word, its forms in Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Malay, Swahili, Hausa and others, and what changed in it on the way.

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Made in Arabic

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Made in Arabic

Instruments made in Arabic, what is written on them in Arabic, and the words that went out from them into the world's languages.

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Arabic Beyond the Arabs

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Arabic Beyond the Arabs

People who were not Arabs but wrote and lived in Arabic: Christians, Jews, and Muslims of other peoples.

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