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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

105 cards

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

28 cards

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

53 cards

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

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Arabic in the Sciences

45 cards

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

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Kept Alive in Arabic

5 cards

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

13 cards

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

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