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The sinyor Rav h"r Shaul had a strong aversion to the Turkish language to the extent that he would excommunicate anyone singing Turkish songs. Not only Turkish songs, but even a Jewish liturgical…
Contributor:
Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Palestine (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1881–1890
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It cannot be doubted that the two designations ahl al-ḥadīth and ahl al-ra’y originally referred to branches of legists occupied with the investigation of Islamic law: the former were…
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Ignác Goldziher
Places:
Buda, Pest, Óbuda, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1883
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I did not sleep; I let myself be rocked by the inexorable battle of the waves; soon the monster of seasickness flashed in my innards, but I overcame it. A god held sway in me; he triumphed: it was the…
Contributor:
Ignác Goldziher
Places:
Buda, Pest, Óbuda, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1873