{[Islamic Art –] The Word (2) [continued (5)]}[14th April 1991]

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‘The sheer emotive power of the Arabic language to enrapture and bewitch its listeners by sound alone should be kept in mind when considering any piece of Arabic literature. Only a people endowed with peculiar sensibility to the word could properly appreciate the refinement of pre-Islamic poetry and be ready to accept the concept of divine revelation apparently through the word in the Quran.’

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*– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica) 22:] 50

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