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It seemed to us that there would be a real interest, for the natives and Arabists alike, to have between their hands a collection of ghernata [Granada] poetry as complete as possible and methodically…
Contributor:
Edmond-Nathan Yafil
Places:
Algiers, French Algeria (Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
1904
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I have merited to make this book, which I named Kol sasson [The Voice of Gladness], for the reason that our masters of blessed memory said that it is obligatory for everyone…
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Mordechai Seror
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Algiers, French Algeria (Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
1884
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This illustration of a phlebotomy knife appears in an eighteenth-century Judeo-Arabic medical manuscript. Bloodletting, thought to balance the humors of the body, was an accepted medical treatment at…
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Atzlan ben Abraham al-Karaji
Date:
18th Century