Arabic-L:LING:fii al-mudun query

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Date: 30 Dec 2010
From: Shawn Welnak <swelnak at tulane.edu>
Subject: fii al-mudun query

Greetings everyone,

I'm hoping someone might know whether the phrase "fii al-mudun" ("in the cities") is ever used as an idiom for "in all the cities", i.e., in the entire world.

I'm looking at Farabi's kitaab al-milla, and he uses this phrase towards the very end.  I take him to mean merely that each and every city must have its own common religion in order to achieve what he has outlined, not that there must be a common religion in all cities as a unit for this to happen.

Regards,
Shawn Welnak
Tulane University

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