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Nathaniel Miller

PhD Arabic Lit
ex-Cambridge University, ex-NYU

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—On Going Blind— If God has taken the light from my eyes, some of that light yet remains in my ears and tongue: a sharp heart, a mind without guff, and in my mouth a blade, a drawn sword. —Abū al-ʿAynāʾ (Iraq, d. 896)

—On Going Blind— If God has taken the light from my eyes, some of that light yet remains in my ears and tongue: a sharp heart, a mind without guff, and in my mouth a blade, a drawn sword. —Abū al-ʿAynāʾ (Iraq, d. 896)