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1988 Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize

1976 Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi

1948 Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine

1948 Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan, King of Palestine

1946 Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered

1928 Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet

1871 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, New York City

1867 Salomon Munk, published Arabic edition of Maimounides, dies

1331 Aboe al-Fida, Aboelfeda, Arabic writer/sultan of Hama, dies

1199 Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew

1048 Al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74

1002 Al-Mansur, Arabic general strategist/regent of Cordoba, dies

967 Aboe al-Faradj al-Isfahani, Arabic author (Book of liederen), dies

965 Aboe a-Taia-H al-Moetanabbi, Arabic royal poet (Diwan), murdered

883 Albumasar, Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi, Arabic astronomer, dies

813 al-Amin, Arabic kalief of Islam (809-813), murdered

786 Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86), dies

644 Omar I, Arabic 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered

641 Arabic/Islamic army contrasts with the Hippo over Alexandria

634 Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies

580 Mohammed, Arabic prophet/founder, Islam


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