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... urban official buildings of the Muslims . Nothing is known , for instance , about the great Umayyad palace in Damascus aside from the fact that it had a green dome . Also poorly documented is a development in urban aristocratic ...
... urban official buildings of the Muslims . Nothing is known , for instance , about the great Umayyad palace in Damascus aside from the fact that it had a green dome . Also poorly documented is a development in urban aristocratic ...
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... urban industries en- tered into crisis in the decade 1611-20 , reaching their low point about 1650. In the south , extensive wheat mono- culture exhausted the soil and led to deforestation and soil erosion . Further , noble owners ...
... urban industries en- tered into crisis in the decade 1611-20 , reaching their low point about 1650. In the south , extensive wheat mono- culture exhausted the soil and led to deforestation and soil erosion . Further , noble owners ...
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... urban coun- terpart , providing considerable rural purchasing power . Television tied rural households to urban Japan and to the world beyond . Young men brought up on visions of urban life as projected by American television programs ...
... urban coun- terpart , providing considerable rural purchasing power . Television tied rural households to urban Japan and to the world beyond . Young men brought up on visions of urban life as projected by American television programs ...
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Muḥammad and the Religion of ISLAM 44 ISLAMIC ARTS | 44 |
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