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Night & Horses & The Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literatureby Robert Irwin

✍ Scribed by Review by: Matthew Gordon

Book ID: 124679314
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 256 KB
Volume: 34
Category: Article
ISSN: 0026-3184
DOI: 10.2307/23064156

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