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Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani; (1013)
Kitab al-Masabih fi ithbat al-imama (the Proof of the Imamate)
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Taken from: Master of the Age: An Islamic Treatise on the Necessity of the Imamate by Hamid al-Din Ahmad ibn
Abd Allah Kirmani, Paul E. Walker

The third demonstration; Of what is visible, the realm of languages with its various kinds, such as Arabic, Persian,
Hebrew, Syriac, Nabatean (1), Greek, Zanji, Turkish and others, are composed of known and limited parts (letters)
 This world map with the Kaba as the centre is only added as illustration

 

Hamid al Din al-Kirmani: Rahatu’l-aql (Peace of Mind) (d1021)

Taken from: The Journal of Jewish studies‎ by Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Society for Jewish Study 1998

 

The Turks, Zanj, brbr (2) and their like who have by their nature no interest in things intellectual or desire to understand religious truth.

(1) Nabatean: were an ancient Arab people who inhabited northern Arabia and the southern Levant.

(2) Brbr: Barbar of East Africa.