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The 30th anniversary of the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC),Northeast Normal University of Changchun (China) has been celebrated with
You may find the all revealing sentence of and about the book under review here on page 210:"But if calling his [sc.caliph al-Mamūns] impulse ‘antiquarian’ h