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The Earth as only museum
Thought takes shape, long before readings and writing, through the landscapes we pass through, and above all those before which we take the time to meditate. It took me fifty years of life and thirty years of experience to remember that my thought was forged in the constant companionship, as the child I was, of what Ibn Khaldun gazed upon each morning as he wrote his major work.
افلا ينضرون الى الابل كيف خلقت
والى السماء كيف رفعت
و الى الجبال كيف نصبت
و الى الارض كيف سطحت
صورت الغاشية
Quran, Surat Al-Ghashiyah, verses 17 to 20
Qal'at Ibn Salama, near Frenda, Algeria, where Ibn Khaldun wrote the Muqaddimah. © Abdelkader Damani
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