
Books
What I'm reading now, the books I'd hand a friend in English and Arabic, and my reviews of the ones on AI, philosophy and human history.
Currently reading
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Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day -
Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale -
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies -
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality -
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality -
The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise
Reviews
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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking HumansRead the review -
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceRead the review -
Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AIRead the review -
Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindRead the review -
The Meaning of Life: Religious, Philosophical, Transhumanist, and Scientific PerspectivesRead the review -
What's It All About?: Philosophy and the Meaning of LifeRead the review
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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Melanie Mitchell's honest assessment of where AI actually stands, the cycles of hype and winter, and why the barrier of meaning still separates narrow AI from anything resembling human intelligence.
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark's balanced exploration of AI's future, from the three stages of life to superintelligence risks.
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Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI
John Brockman assembles 25 of the sharpest minds across physics, robotics, and philosophy to debate AI's future.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
A sweeping history of humankind that challenges how we think about cooperation, fiction, and the revolutions that shaped our species.
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The Meaning of Life: Religious, Philosophical, Transhumanist, and Scientific Perspectives
A survey of how philosophers, scientists, and transhumanists have tried to answer the oldest question.
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What's It All About?: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
Julian Baggini on why the meaning of life is not one profound answer, and why looking for origins is the wrong place to look.
Recommended
English
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An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide -
Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers -
21 Lessons for the 21st Century -
Animal Farm -
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach -
At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise -
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think -
Case Studies in Hypocrisy: U.S. Human Rights Policy -
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration -
Does Santa Exist?: A Philosophical Investigation -
Domain-Specific Languages (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) -
DSLs in Action -
For a Free Humanity: For Anarchy -
Great Expectations -
Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People -
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow -
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control -
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up -
Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil -
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence -
Metaphysics: An Introduction -
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution -
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space -
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) -
Religion and Science -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind -
Season of Migration to the North -
Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature -
The "God" Part of the Brain: A Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God -
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark -
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory -
The Emerging Framework of World Power -
The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg -
The Hidden Face of God: Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth -
The Meaning of Life: Religious, Philosophical, Transhumanist, and Scientific Perspectives -
The Mind: Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness – A Consciousness-Expanding Anthology of Scientific Essays (Best of Edge Series, 4) -
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values -
The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule -
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change -
The Thief and the Dogs -
The Yacoubian Building -
Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) -
Think Like a Freak -
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works -
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time -
Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme -
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty -
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body -
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future -
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts -
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future -
Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction -
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans -
Before the Big Bang -
C# Machine Learning Projects -
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos -
Critical Thinking: A Beginner's Guide -
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime -
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious -
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World -
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking -
I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 -
Introducing Artificial Intelligence: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides) -
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life -
Logic: A Complete Introduction: A step-by-step Teach Yourself guide to use at home, school or college (Complete Introductions) -
Metaphysics: An Introduction -
Modern Compiler Implementation in Java -
Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong – Groundbreaking Research on Morality from Evolutionary Biology and Neuroscience (P.S.) -
Philosophy: The Basics -
Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI -
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory -
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies -
The Art of War -
The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design -
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption -
The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What We Can Learn About Ourselves from Our Machines -
The Martian -
The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation (TED Books) -
The Prophet -
The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty -
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness -
The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain: A Neurologist's Search for the God Experience -
The Symposium -
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking -
Thus Spoke Zarathustra -
Understanding Philosophy of Science -
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions -
What's It All About?: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life -
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time -
The Brain and the Meaning of Life -
How We Decide -
The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction -
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide
Michael Sahota
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Stuart Russell
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Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
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Case Studies in Hypocrisy: U.S. Human Rights Policy
Noam Chomsky
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Does Santa Exist?: A Philosophical Investigation
Eric Kaplan
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DSLs in Action
Debasish Ghosh
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For a Free Humanity: For Anarchy
Noam Chomsky
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
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Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
Paul Bloom
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Metaphysics: An Introduction
Alyssa Ney
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Religion and Science
Bertrand Russell
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
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Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih
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The Emerging Framework of World Power
Noam Chomsky
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The Hidden Face of God: Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth
Gerald Schroeder
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The Thief and the Dogs
Naguib Mahfouz
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The Yacoubian Building
Alaa Al Aswany
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Think Like a Freak
Steven D. Levitt
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Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme
Richard Brodie
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Daniel H. Pink
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Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
Julia Annas
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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Melanie Mitchell
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Before the Big Bang
Brian Clegg
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C# Machine Learning Projects
Yoon Hyup Hwang
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Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos
Roger Lewin
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Critical Thinking: A Beginner's Guide
Sharon Kaye
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Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
Gerd Gigerenzer
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
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I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
Douglas Edwards
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Metaphysics: An Introduction
Jonathan Tallant
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Modern Compiler Implementation in Java
Andrew W. Appel
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Philosophy: The Basics
Nigel Warburton
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Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI
John Brockman
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu
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The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
Clay A. Johnson
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The Martian
Andy Weir
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The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
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The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
Simon Baron-Cohen
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The Symposium
Plato
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Understanding Philosophy of Science
James Ladyman
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What's It All About?: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
Julian Baggini
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The Brain and the Meaning of Life
Paul Thagard
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How We Decide
Jonah Lehrer
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The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction
Amanda H. Podany
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Arabic
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أرض النفاق -
أولاد حارتنا -
التلصص -
الواجهة -
حكايات حارتنا -
عزازيل -
عن الحرية -
مالك الحزين -
مشكلة الإنسان -
مشكلة الحياة -
واحة الغروب -
التفكير فريضة إسلامية -
الرجل الذي باع رأسه -
اللاهوت العربي وأصول العنف الديني -
الله -
المثنوي: الدفتر الأول -
الوجود والعدم -
اليهود أنثروبولوجيًا -
بين القصرين -
تغريدة البجعة -
جامع الفراشات -
حديث الصباح والمساء -
حوار مع صديقي الملحد -
رأيت الله -
رحلتي من الشك إلى الإيمان -
طبائع الاستبداد ومصارع الاستعباد -
عمارة يعقوبيان -
فلسفة الوجود -
مختصر إحياء علوم الدين -
مشكلة الحب -
مشكلة الفلسفة -
مغامرة العقل الأولى -
نقطة النور -
أنا عشقت -
تاريخ جهنم -
ثورة العقل في الفلسفة العربية -
شيكاجو -
فلسفة الغزالي -
لغز الحياة -
مذاهب فلاسفة المشرق -
يوم غائم في البر الغربي -
يوميات الواحات -
السائرون نياما -
الطبيعة وما بعد الطبيعة: المادة - الحياة - الله -
المنهج الفلسفي بين الغزالي وديكارت -
مفهوم النص: دراسة في علوم القرآن
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أرض النفاق
يوسف السباعي
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أولاد حارتنا
Naguib Mahfouz
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التلصص
Sonallah Ibrahim
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الواجهة
Youssef Ezeddin Eassa
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حكايات حارتنا
Naguib Mahfouz
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عزازيل
Youssef Ziedan
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عن الحرية
John Stuart Mill
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مالك الحزين
Ibrahim Aslan
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مشكلة الإنسان
زكريا إبراهيم
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مشكلة الحياة
زكريا إبراهيم
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واحة الغروب
Bahaa Taher
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التفكير فريضة إسلامية
عباس محمود العقاد
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الرجل الذي باع رأسه
Youssef Ezeddin Eassa
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اللاهوت العربي وأصول العنف الديني
Youssef Ziedan
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الله
Mostafa Mahmoud
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المثنوي: الدفتر الأول
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
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الوجود والعدم
Mostafa Mahmoud
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اليهود أنثروبولوجيًا
جمال حمدان
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بين القصرين
Naguib Mahfouz
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تغريدة البجعة
Mekkawi Said
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جامع الفراشات
John Fowles
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حديث الصباح والمساء
Naguib Mahfouz
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حوار مع صديقي الملحد
Mostafa Mahmoud
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رأيت الله
Mostafa Mahmoud
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رحلتي من الشك إلى الإيمان
Mostafa Mahmoud
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طبائع الاستبداد ومصارع الاستعباد
Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi
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عمارة يعقوبيان
Alaa Al Aswany
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فلسفة الوجود
نقولا حداد
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مختصر إحياء علوم الدين
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
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مشكلة الحب
زكريا إبراهيم
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مشكلة الفلسفة
زكريا إبراهيم
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مغامرة العقل الأولى
فراس السواح
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نقطة النور
Bahaa Taher
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أنا عشقت
Mohamed Mansi Qandil
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تاريخ جهنم
Georges Minois
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ثورة العقل في الفلسفة العربية
محمد عاطف العراقي
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شيكاجو
Alaa Al Aswany
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فلسفة الغزالي
عباس محمود العقاد
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لغز الحياة
Mostafa Mahmoud
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مذاهب فلاسفة المشرق
عاطف العراقي
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يوم غائم في البر الغربي
Mohamed Mansi Qandil
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يوميات الواحات
Sonallah Ibrahim
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السائرون نياما
سعد مكاوي
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المنهج الفلسفي بين الغزالي وديكارت
محمود حمدي زقزوق
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مفهوم النص: دراسة في علوم القرآن
Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid




