Ok. This is the plan: Translate an ancient Arabic book to English. Without throwing roadblocks in the way, this is a work in progress. Details and context uploaded as I find time.
Last night, I heard about a book that I wanted to read. It's never been translated, and I don't speak Arabic. I don't know if this will work, but lets see how it goes. Ideally it will become a collaborative project, because there will be a lot of errors. I'm going to take the pages of the book, convert them to text, and feed the text through a translation app. Here we go: page one of ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt' by Zakariya al-Qazwini. In English:
Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing
This is from a genre of classical Islamic literature called ‘ajā’ib or ‘jā’ib al-makhlūqāt literature, which was concerned with 'mirabilia', which means cosmographical and geographical topics that challenged people's understanding of the world. (Reference). The book explores a huge range of topics, such as human biology, plants, astrology and cryptozoology.
This is the first page. 
I converted to text on online-convert.com
م 3 كه
ابا ونور سوا فيز واممرس تسب رات
ماران سبع لو راع او لز لوس تاي" 8
اناك وز الشني الات ,نيتاه
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ل ملت نال سلاف مسرت اسار كافش ازالات
0 لاسرال خصو" ار ها
سدس براق وقوه زرا كل
سماب / ثعال)»
رآ
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which I then put it through Google Translate:
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Aba and Noor Sawa Fiz and Ammars Tesbrat
Maran Seven Le Ra or Luz Los Tai "8
You want the machine, its intention
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For the slavs, the slaves obtained the secrets of the kafsh removals
0 to the families of the opponents, "R ha
A shining sixth, and the power of each button
SMAP / Thaal) ''
Saw
1
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I'll try out some different programs. Please comment if you can make corrections!
