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In his book on Islamic civilisation in the fourth century, on the art of the letter:
“The letters of the fourth/tenth century are the finest flower of Muslim artistic craft, working with the noblest material of all: language.”
Adam Mez
1869–1917
German Semitist from Freiburg, professor of Semitic languages at Basel.
Original text — German
Die Briefe des 4./10. Jahrhunderts sind die feinste Blüte des muhammedanischen Kunsthandwerks, arbeitend mit dem edelsten Stoffe: der Sprache.
In Arabic
وإنّ رسائل القرن الرابع الهجريّ هي أجمل آيةٍ للفنّ الإسلاميّ؛ ومادّتها أنفس ما اشتغل به الفنّانون، وهي اللغة.
Source
Die Renaissance des Islâms, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1922, p. 231
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
He wrote in German; the Arabic is Abu Rida's translation, the English ours.
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