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Islam and Law || Subversive Virtue: Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Roman Worldby James A. Francis

✍ Scribed by Review by: Maud W. Gleason

Book ID: 124673576
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 393 KB
Volume: 38
Category: Article
ISSN: 0018-2710
DOI: 10.2307/3176529

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