In the early days of the Almohad movement, Ibn Tumart used to line up his followers and give them each a syllable of a Quranic verse to memorise and together they were able to say whole phrases in Arabic, a language they did not speak.
Jamie Pelling
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Assistant Professor at Kean University Research: State, Sexuality, and Affect in the Modern Middle East Working to understand weird feelings in and about the late-Ottoman Empire
