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- ↑ The full title is "The History of the Saracens; Comprising the lives of Mohammed and his successors, to the death of Abdalmelik, the Eleventh Caliph. With an account of their most remarkable battles, sieges, revolts, &c. Collected from authentic sources, especially Arabic mss."
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- ↑ Robert Graham Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies (2006), p. 119.
