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Known as “the philosopher of the Arabs,” al-Kindī was the author of 290 books on medicine, astronomy, mathematics, linguistics and music. His greatest treatise, which was rediscovered only in 1987 in the Sulaimaniyyah Ottoman Archive in Istanbul, is entitled A Manuscript on Deciphering Cryptographic Messages;
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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Reza Aslan • No god but God (Updated Edition): The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
“A bamboo fence surrounds the grave for some considerable distance,” he concluded, “and by the time the fence is worn out, the grass will again have properly covered the spot, and no vestige will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Moghuls rests.”
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
There was no city, however small and obscure it might be, that did not pay the greatest attention to preserving an account of what had passed within it. This was not vanity, but religion.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges • The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Illustrated)
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Reza Aslan • No god but God (Updated Edition): The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
