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Abu'l-`Ala' al-Ma`arri
Freethinking poet of Ma`arra (in modern day Syria , southeast of Aleppo ), d. 1057 .
- "The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts:
Those with brains, but no religion,
And those with religion, but no brains."
- quoted in Amin Maalouf 's book The Crusades Through Arab Eyes.
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