The story follows Fuwaad ibn Abbas, a fabric merchant in the ancient city of Baghdad.

小说说的是巴格达古城的一位布商福瓦德·阿巴斯的故事。

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But the same does not hold in the Arab world: if you call someone "ibn kalb" (son of a dog), you're insulting both the person and his forebears.

但在阿拉伯世界里并非如此：如果你称某人“ibn kalb”(狗崽子)，你就不仅侮辱了他，你还侮辱了他的祖先。

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"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance. " - Ali ibn Abi-Talib.

“知识即财富， 无知即贫穷。” - 阿里“伊本”阿比-塔里布（阿拉伯诗人）

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Ibn Khaldun wrote his penetrating works on the philosophy of history some 700 years after Karbala.

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Mr Mahfouz knew his subject like a true ibn balad, a son of the Cairo soil.

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