Same principle for olympic medals

I did not notice anyone deliberately playing with palindromes like al-Harīrī does.

You're asking if there are any palindromes, in Arabic script, in these hundreds of manuscripts?

These manuscripts were saved by the heroic librarians when the library was shelled during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s, and one of the librarians--Aida Buturović--was killed on her way home. It's an honor to follow in her footsteps and help share these books with the world

It's now in Erbil at the patriarchate of the Assyrian Church of the East
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I used this book, I think it worked well enough: library.teachyourself.com/id004325096/...

From a prayer book in Arabic, Tatar, and Polish, possibly early 19th century, now at the Stefanyk National Scientific Library in L'viv, Ukraine
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Hi! Long time no see

Also interesting: al-Māsinī gives the date of October 22 in addition to the hijrī date, meaning early modern West African Muslims were maintaining knowledge of the Julian calendar even after Western European Christians had transitioned to Gregorian (the earthquake was November 1)

I'm not sure if such a description of the disaster from West Africa has ever been identified before

The text is by an otherwise unknown author named Aḥmad ibn Bindād al-Māsinī. He emphasizes his observations of animal behavior during the earthquake, seeing their movements and cries as natural expressions of praise to God

We're excited!

It's true!