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- Tazi, Badi (annotations), La médecine arabe au XVIIIe siècle à travers al "Urdjuza Ash-Shakruniyya" (bil. ar-fr)., 1984 (originally presented as the author's thesis (duktūrāh), Jāmiʻat Muhammad al-Khāmis, Rabat, 1980) ISBN 977-01-0295-4
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