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


To: marcos who wrote (11)1/14/2003 5:28:54 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 273
 
'jabr' is an old arabic term for 'bonesetting'
NO WONDER most people think their high school algebra course hurts so mucjh! :-)

I rather enjoyed it. But then I'm a dyed-in-the-wool nerd.

Yeah, I'd forgotten algorithm came from Arabic. And, as pointed out in the header, alcohol and alkali. The Arabs were big practitioners of al-chemy. (Probably something like al chemi would be closer to the original, I'd guess.)

there are many proponents of zionism for us to whack upside the head on these threads
Would this do?
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