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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
The “Canun” a medical encyclopedia written by Ibn-Sina, was the West’s basic medical text for more than five centuries, with thirty editions in Latin and several in Hebrew.
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