ATDTDA was bedeutet Al Mar-Fuad?

[Ian Livingston]

Way cool.  The animate in man, n'est-ce pas?

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> found a reference to "mar":
> Hence, for example, the word "man" can be translated into Arabic in
> several different ways: bashar (Man as a creation of God), mar'
> (mortal, ephemeral man), rajul (man as opposed to woman), insan (man
> as a social being, the human race), and so on.
>
> so, Al Mar-Fuad - the mind or heart of mortal man
> human compassion? (which would be a reasonable thing,
> the spirit of compassion tells the colonialist to turn over the
> territory to its inhabitants?)""
>
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