Hatif
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title:
Hatif
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Hatif is a voice that can be heard without one's discovering the body that made it. Al-Jahiz wrote that the Bedouin believed that important messages could be transmitted without a visible medium. The receiver would hear the message in realtime without seeing the speaker. Al-Masudi focused on the psychological backgrounds of this phenomenon, and explained the hatif as a hallucination caused by loneliness. However, according to al-Jahiz, belief in hatif was so widespread among the Bedouin, they we
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Arabic folklore
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatif
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2023-07-24T18:06:02Z
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