Ibn Salama
ibnsalama.bsky.social
Ibn Salama
@ibnsalama.bsky.social
Arab Translator
I will never touch a Brian/KJA Dune-related thing.
The simple fact that they misunderstood FH's Jihad (humans fighting *each other* to prevent the mental stagnation of AI-dependent happy humanity) as a cliche fight against robots makes their books bad fanfic.
November 26, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Apologists study their religion with the intention of being prepared to answer any incoming attacks.
Proselytism is going to other camps to spread the message.
Polemicist intentionally find holes in other religions.
November 20, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Using it revealed the real people behind many fake accounts, or simply the real person running a famous official account (like the Nobel Prize account). I guess it uses emails to find matches, not just names.
November 18, 2024 at 6:23 AM
What?! He is a conservative Muslim, not even *remotely* intersected in white supremacy!
Arguing against Judaism as a religion isn't Nazism.
November 18, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Mine was just an IBM-compatible PC that ran DOS & Windows 3.11 (Egypt during the 1990s)
November 18, 2024 at 1:37 AM
How do you imagine the hujurat/rooms were laid out to accommodate 9 wives? A connected complex?
The number of wives could have been determined archeologically, but the humble architecture was destroyed during ibn Umar's time to enlarge the mosque, IIRC.
November 16, 2024 at 4:20 AM
There are 100 Arabic words used in the 1st DUNE novel, from "Arrakis/The Dancer" to "Zabur/Psalms".

aboutsalama.blogspot.com/2020/05/100-...

Translating the book into my native Arabic (in 2018) was an interesting experience!
archive.org/details/dune...
100 Arabic words in Frank Herbert's Dune
aboutsalama.blogspot.com
November 16, 2024 at 3:40 AM
I don't expect it to stay algorithm-free for long.
Convenience is inescapable.
November 16, 2024 at 3:05 AM