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THE STORY OF NATURAL NUMBERS
Numeric and Literary
Scripts
The Egg and the Golf Ball
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THE STORY OF TRADE
The Palmyrene Empire
The Trade of Northern Arabia
Global Free Trade
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3
MYSTERIES OF THE ALPHABETS
The Abjad of Canaan
Imru-ul Qais
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THE THREE MEN FROM BULAN
Hadiths and Numbers
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THE LANGUAGE OF THE MARKETPLACE
Dactylonomy
Al-Hisab al-Hawa’i
The Fastest and the
Strongest
Changes and
Variations
The Numeric
Dawn
Mix and Match
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THE “THINGS”
A Primeval Need for the
“Things”
The Universal Language
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SCRIPTS OF THE NILE
Purity in Isolation
The Symbols of the
Sinai
Strokes and Signs
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THE STORY OF WRITING
Miniaturisation of the
“Things”
Mining for the “Things”
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9
THE ANCIENT ARABIAN NUMERALS
History in Rhyme
History in Stone
Numeral Shapes in Arabic Inscriptions
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10
THE ORIGIN OF THE “THINGS”
The Quinary
System
The Biquinary System
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THE CYPHER SYSTEM
Middle Eastern Numeral
Systems
The Old South Arabian System
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12
THE NUMERAL MANSIONS
The Book of Numbers
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13
SCRIPT ORIENTATION
Invoking the History of Tippu Sultan
The “Indian” Connection
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14
NUMERIC REFLECTIONS
The Anon of Civilisation
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THE CYPHERING OF EUROPE
Sicily
Institutionalisation of the Arabic System
A Guest at the Court
Business and Numbers
Interest Rates and Mathematics
History without Hamlet
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DIFFUSION OF THE MARKEPLACE
Zephirum
Standardisation
Literas Claros
Right, Left
Andalusian Scripts
Ghobar
Users and Inventors
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THE FRAGRANT LAND OF BENARES
Borrowed from the
Arabians
The Mysterious Zij of
Baghdad
Concordance
of the Asiatic Society
Emmental and Orientalism
Arqam Hindiya
Colonial Politics, Orientalist Discourse |