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    Clay Tablets
    Clay Tablets
    Clay Tablets
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    Clay Tablets

    By Raed Aljishi

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    Clay Tablets in Nietzsche's Cave is a masterful, poetic work--and as momentous
    for the reception of Arabic poetry in English as was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls for theologians and anthropologists. These "clay tablets"--excavated
    ostensibly from the cave of the Neanderthal of atheistic philosophy--unfurl a tour-de-force of aphoristic verses insisting on our need to sing, especially in negotiating our existence as animate dust, prostrate before Divinity
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSail Publishing
    Release dateMay 1, 2021
    ISBN9789948869207
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