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Aramaic Proverbs: The Words of Ahiqar
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The Words of Ahiqar are the teachings that Ahiqar, the wise scribe who was chief counselor to the kings of Assyria, imparted to his nephew and adopted son Nadin.

Places:

Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)

Date:

Fifth Century BCE

Subjects:

Wisdom, Monarchy, Politics, Family, Ethics

Categories:

Literature, Wisdom Literature
The War for Our Nation
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[By “war”] I mean concrete war—rather than a war of words or an incomplete war of demonstrations. I am not in denial regarding the existence of these words or those demonstrations, and neither do I…

Contributor:

Murād Faraj

Places:

Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)

Date:

1912

Subjects:

War, Language and linguistics, Muslim-Jewish relations, Arab-Jewish relations, Ethics

Categories:

Political Culture, Law, Religion & Theology