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Nikolai N. Seleznyov, “Al-Makīn ibn al-ʿAmīd on Moses of Crete,” Scrinium 15 (2019): 321–327. — doi:10.1163/18177565-00151P20
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . - ↑ Socrates Scholasticus, "Historia Ecclesiastica," vii. 38; Grätz, "Gesch." 3d ed., iv. 354-355
- ↑ John of Nikiû, "Chronicle," LXXXVI.1-11
- ↑ Donna Kossy, Kooks
