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Al-Mutanabbi Street

شارع المتنبي

Baghdad's book and print street since the 19th century — 'reading is breathing to Iraqis'; bombed in 2007 and reborn.

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Region
Levant & Iraq
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Libraries, paper and the bookLiterature

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موجز

شارع بغداد التاريخي للكُتب على ضفة دجلة؛ سمّي باسم الشاعر المتنبي وصار منذ القرن العشرين مركز بيع الكتب والمخطوطات والمقاهي الأدبية. 1

الأهمية

قلب الحياة الثقافية العراقية؛ تفجير 2007م الذي استهدفه صار رمزًا لمقاومة العراق للموت بالكلمة. 1

People and things also explored

al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Arab naming of children after plants· The delegation of Banu Tamim and the boasting contest· Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina· Salim ibn Umayr's mission to kill Abu Afak· Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi's mission to kill Asma' bint Marwan· The killing of Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf

Sources

  1. Wikidata
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al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant

Al-Hamdani's register of the peninsula's tongues records that the highland Himyar and Ja'da keep 'something of tanahmir' — Himyaritic speech — eliding consonants: 'bi-bn Ma'am' for 'bi-bn al-'amm', 'simmi'' for 'isma''. He counts Kinda and Hamdan the most eloquent of the south, says Mahra's speech resembles the 'ajam's, and names Nahj, Abyan and Dathina the purest — the earliest detailed witness to Old Himyaritic surviving on fourth-century tongues.