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Shami and Levantine Dialect
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Wala isheh
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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
Ibn-Sina (980-1037) wrote the famous medical encyclopedia “Canun” which described every known disease, both physical and mental, and every method of treatment evaluating 760 drugs in use at the time.
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