By Gregor Schoeler,Uwe Vagelpohl,James E. Montgomery
Made up of a few seminal articles which are translated for the 1st time in English, this prestigious booklet from Gregor Schoeler supplies a reasoned, educated and entire overflow of the way the written and the spoken interacted, diverged and obtained cultural articulation one of the Muslim societies of the 1st centuries of the Hijra.
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