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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

by Martin Lings

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Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

by Tim Mackintosh-Smith

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"I find myself deeply offended when Tim starts to talk about how the Arabs are ironically the people who least heeded the message of unity in Islam. The unattainable mirage. How Arabic is not even a spoken language anymore, there isn’t even a country that speaks it daily, but only in speeches or official documents. It’s sad. Anywayyyyy, moving on 🥹" — May 01, 2023 03:25PM

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Chai’s Quotes

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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“All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

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“One should never underestimate the power of books.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

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“And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.”
― Paul Auster

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