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"The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts:
Those with brains, but no religion,
And those with religion, but no brains."
- Abu'l-'Ala al-Ma'arri, blind Arab poet, first half of the 11th c.; quoted in The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Amin Maalouf, trans. Jon Rothschild, Shocken Books, NY 1985.
Those with brains, but no religion,
And those with religion, but no brains."
- Abu'l-'Ala al-Ma'arri, blind Arab poet, first half of the 11th c.; quoted in The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Amin Maalouf, trans. Jon Rothschild, Shocken Books, NY 1985.