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I also use adab of fingernail polish on all screws and the scope has stayed 0 with on exception after 8 trips by plane to MT.
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I also use adab of fingernail polish on all screws and the scope has stayed 0 with on exception after 8 trips by plane to MT.
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It calls for a Muslim worldview based not exclusively on jurisprudence but including Islamic philosophy (falsafah), theology (kalam) and literature (adab).
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It calls for a Muslim worldview based not exclusively on jurisprudence but including Islamic philosophy (falsafah), theology (kalam) and literature (adab).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Novels (rumaniyat) were originally also accepted and developed for the teaching of adab.
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Arabic word for literature, adab, originally refers to a high level of culture, i.e., good behaviour and exalted manners.
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Death of Amr al-Jahiz, a famed master of adab, or belles lettres.
835 2001
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+ A son of Hezron and the father of Ammin-adab, born in Egypt after Jacob's migration there.
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As the great Muslim thinker Suhrawardi said, we are taught these stories to help us figure out what kind of manners, what type of "adab", we will follow in life.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Omid Safi 2012
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As the great Muslim thinker Suhrawardi said, we are taught these stories to help us figure out what kind of manners, what type of "adab", we will follow in life.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Omid Safi 2012
knitandpurl commented on the word adab
"Your family name, however, is another matter: originally Mu'addib, schoolmaster, teacher, prescriber of knowledge for its proper usage in society, dispenser of adab, a purveyor by name of good breeding and official culture, for the training of scribes and other executives of Arab power."
Talismano by Abdelwahab Meddeb, translated by Jane Kuntz, p 207 of the Dalkey Archive Press paperback
October 1, 2011