From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 12:36:38 MST
>From: michael.bast@convergys.com
>No, actually it's an Arabic word. Muslim and Arab are not
>synomyms.
>>From: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com>
>>(alcohol is a muslim word)
To be very precise, it is a medieval latin derivative of the Arabic
"al-kuhl" learned from Muslim scholars during medieval Europe (the
Islamic renaissance).
Brian
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