“All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.”

—  Ibn Khaldun , book Muqaddimah

Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal, p. 432, Princeton University Press, 1981.
Muqaddimah (1377)

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