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Their leader was a youthful mountaineer of huge physique who audaciously styled himself king.
- 1 2 Hitti, Philip (1916). The origins of the Islamic state. Beirut, Lebanon: Columbia University. p. 251.
- ↑ Asakir, Tarikh Dimashq
- ↑ Salibi 1959, p. 179.