{"id":6673,"date":"2013-10-18T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/al-amidis-system-of-writing-for-the-blind\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T00:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T00:00:20","slug":"al-amidis-system-of-writing-for-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/al-amidis-system-of-writing-for-the-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing System for the Blind: Al-Amidi vs. Braille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting to note that 600 years before Braille, a Syrian Muslim, known as Ali Ibn Ahmed Ibn Yusuf Ibn Al-Khizr Al-Amidi (d. 1314 CE) was considered an expert in reading such a system. Like Braille, he too was blind from childhood<\/p>\n<p>   <a href='http:\/\/www.truth-seeker.info\/jewels-of-islam\/al-amidis-system-of-writing-for-the-blind\/' target='_blank'>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting to note that 600 years before Braille, a Syrian Muslim, known as Ali Ibn Ahmed Ibn Yusuf Ibn Al-Khizr Al-Amidi (d. 1314 CE) was considered an expert in reading such a system. Like Braille, he too was blind from childhood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[493,7160,7161,7162,7163,7164,2216,7,7165,7166,7167,7168,7169,7170,7171,7172,7173],"class_list":["post-6673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-truth-seeker","tag-ali-al-halawani","tag-ali-ibn-ahmed-ibn-yusuf-ibn-al-khizr-al-amidi","tag-blind","tag-braille-alphabet","tag-britain","tag-day-of-the-blind","tag-egypt","tag-featured","tag-france","tag-international-year-of-disabled-persons","tag-louis-braille","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-stamp","tag-stamps","tag-syrian-muslim","tag-tactile-receptors","tag-the-cell-system-for-the-blind"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Al-Amidi.jpg?fit=200%2C240&ssl=1","featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Al-Amidi.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islam.com.kw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}