►Did you know that the Arabic language has more than 60 words for 'love'?
►And did you know before Islam, Arabs had love poetry competition, and the best poems were written in gold and hung from the Kaaba?
►But what about love after the advent of Islam? Did you konw that romantic love is discussed in the Qur'an?
▶️Podcast: 🎧https://bit.ly/UME-S1E45
🚩About our guest:
My guest is Dr. Abla Hasan, a Fulbright Scholar, a professor and the Coordinator of Arabic Studies Language & Culture Program at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her research focus includes Qur'anic Studies, Islamic feminism, and Arabic studies, topics about which she has written several books.
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Adel Aali
Host, Unravelling the Middle East
Host, History Behind News Podcast
Unravelling the Middle East podcast is a production of the History Behind News program.
🎶Music attributions:
1. Opening and closing music of the program:
Santur: Peyman Heydarian playing on the Santur some Iranian music. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London on April 7th 2011.
Music available on at https://freesound.org/people/xserra/sounds/125654/
Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED)
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This music has been cut in shorter pieces and its volume has been adjusted in different portions of our program.
2. Background music to guest introduction:
The Desert | The Grand Score
The Desert | The Grand Score by Alexander Nakarada (CreatorChords) | https://creatorchords.com
Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The volume and lengths of this piece have been modified.
3. Background music to promoting History Behind News episodes:
The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The volume and lengths of this piece have been modified.