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BYU has published several volumes by Ibn Sina (or Avicenna), in dual-language format, as part of its Middle Eastern Texts Initiative (METI)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Jabra Ghneim has brought two interesting though quite different articles to my attention. \u00a0The first describes new research into the \u201cintoxication\u201d with language that Western scholars have often noted in classical Arabic culture \u2014 which, the Stanford professor behind the research says, reflects a linguistic sophistication that the medieval West lacked at the same period and from which, he says, literary critics and others in the modern West could still learn:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2015\/january\/arabic-language-key-012315.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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He also brought to my notice this piece \u2014 a somewhat surprising one \u2014 about\u00a0the Jews of Bahrein (on the Arabian Peninsula):<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.yourmiddleeast.com\/culture\/bahrains-synagogue-the-only-one-on-the-arabian-peninsula_29390<\/a><\/p>\n

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