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Page 335
... Islamic world , and affinities with Islamic pottery are often very close . The ware re- mained important till the time of the Turkish conquest , numerous variants being developed both in the course of time and according to the tastes of ...
... Islamic world , and affinities with Islamic pottery are often very close . The ware re- mained important till the time of the Turkish conquest , numerous variants being developed both in the course of time and according to the tastes of ...
Page 345
... Islamic rule . The gradual adoption of Islam by a considerable proportion of the population marks the end of the Coptic period . During the Middle Ages , Coptic art , like the Coptic language , disappeared under the influence of Is ...
... Islamic rule . The gradual adoption of Islam by a considerable proportion of the population marks the end of the Coptic period . During the Middle Ages , Coptic art , like the Coptic language , disappeared under the influence of Is ...
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... Islamic law , Qur'ānic tradition , and Arabic , as well as medicine , physics , and a number of other natural sciences . There is an agricultural college , found- ed at Şan'a ' with Egyptian aid in the late 1930s and about ten ...
... Islamic law , Qur'ānic tradition , and Arabic , as well as medicine , physics , and a number of other natural sciences . There is an agricultural college , found- ed at Şan'a ' with Egyptian aid in the late 1930s and about ten ...
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