Arabic Language Quotes

• The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they refused to adopt the Arabic language, and it's a great point of pride to them that Persian culture and the Persian language and Persian literature survived the conversion to Islam. And the conversion to Islam also was for most of them not the Sunni majority form, but the Shia one. So there's a great discrepancy between Iranian society and many other of what we think of as Arab Muslim States and systems.

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  Christopher Hitchens

  Pride   Thinking   Discrepancies Between  

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was trying to break the stereotype of Arabic language. The non-translation work, this is where I make the switch, where you don't need to translate.

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  eL Seed

  Roots   Trying   Identity  

  "eL Seed’s New Home". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 28, 2016.

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• I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

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  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  People   Liberty   Arabic Language  

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• So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam, our true religion, and we've been made deaf, dumb, and blind in slavery.And Elijah Muhammad was taught by Allah, who we refer to as God, to teach us the truth that will free us.And when I heard it, I've been free ever since. I have no racial problems, I don't go where I'm not wanted.

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  Muhammad Ali

  Names   Dumb   Islam  

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

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  Umar

  Inspiring   Arabic Language   Language  

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