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Shami and Levantine Dialect
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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
Ar-Razi (865-925) wrote more than 100 scientific works, many of which were translated from Arabic into Latin in 1279 and reprinted in Venice in 1542—almost seven hundred years after his birth.
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