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Currently reading Recent Proverbs (الأمثال المولدة), Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Khwārazmī (d. 993), ed. Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Aʿrajī by Nathaniel Miller (PhD Arabic Literature), author of The Emergence of Arabic Poetry (Penn Press, 2024).
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@arabicproverbs.bsky.socialThe note on this proverb reads, “It is said of a rich man whose wealth no one enjoys.” I can think of more than a few people who plague our news cycles it could be used to describe — let’s bring it back!
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Show PostAnd ḥarb! I've missed your proverbs. Glad to see you back. Farting proverbs are the best.
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