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Shami and Levantine Dialect
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Wala isheh
English:
Nothing
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Numbers A major Arabic contribution to Western Civilization was the development of numbers as well as the concept of zero.
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posted on: Nov 19, 2014
Iraq’s Al-Kindi (801-873) synthesized Greek philosophy and Islamic theology and was known as “the philosopher if the Arabs.”
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