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Politics : The Miracle of Islamic Science -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (10)	1/14/2003 5:06:48 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 273

Yes the very word is arabic ... don't have the best of dictionaries here but it says that 'jabr' is an old arabic term for 'bonesetting', and that would seem to make metaphorical sense, related to the fixing or reduction or 'setting' of numerical qualities .... the prefix 'al' is of course 'el/la' in spanish or 'the' in english .... algorithm and alkali are two more on this page .... oh, and this - wait, you better sit down for this one - . . algorism -gg- .... what the arabs need now is a practical political science .... not PoliScis as known among the norteamericanos, but a working system of political thought .... there are many proponents of zionism for us to whack upside the head on these threads, but very few arabs, or muslims in general ... this is especially sad for its basic cause - the fact that they are not free to speak due to dictatorial application of dogma common to their society