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Also in the 9th century, the scientist Abu Yusuf Qub ibn Is-haq ibn as-Sabbah ibn Omran ibn Ismail al-Kindi (or simply al-Kindi) authored 290 books on medicine, mathematics, linguistics, and music, and developed a decryption technique based on the frequency of letters in different languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad. 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