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.
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 you can see tonight, whose names are Arabic – carried into Latin and changed on the way.
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Everyday English words, each with a journey from Arabic – and some came back home.
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Scientific books in Arabic, and what they did to Europe's sciences and universities.
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Greek books lost in whole or in part, whose missing parts survive only in their Arabic translation.
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Zīj, astrolabe, falsafa: words Arabic took from others and shaped to its own patterns.
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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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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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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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People who were not Arabs but wrote and lived in Arabic: Christians, Jews, and Muslims of other peoples.
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