Abdulaziz Al-Helabi, Dimitrios G. Letsios, Moshalleh Al-Moraekhi, Abdullah Al-Abduljabbar. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Higher Education King Saud University College of Arts Department of History, Riyadh, 2012. — 415 p. Scholars share the awareness of a lack in studying the history of the Arabian Peninsula. The need to shed light on past relations between the Arabian...
Brill, 2008. — 530 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies 92). This book charts the development of Islamic ships and boats in the Western Indian Ocean from the seventh to the early sixteenth century with reference to earlier periods. It utilizes mainly Classical and Medieval Arabic sources with iconographical evidence and archaeological finds. Maritime activities in the region...
Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2005. — 572 p. — (Brill’s Inner Asian Library. Vol. 11). — ISSN: 1566-7162; ISBN: 90-04-14096-4. Notes on Dates and Transliterations Early Contacts Early Pastoral Societies of Northeast China: Local Change and Interregional Interaction during c. 1100–600 BCE Gideon Shelach Beasts or Humans: Pre-Imperial Origins of the Sino-Barbarian Dichotomy. Yuri Pines...
University of Hawaii Press, 2015. — 356 p. Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbors often saw them as an ongoing threat and imminent danger - "barbarians",...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 288 p. — 0521462266 ISBN13; 9780521462266. For sixty years, from 1260 to 1323, the Mamluk state in Egypt and Syria was at war with the Ilkhanid Mongols based in Persia. This is the first comprehensive study of the political and military aspects of the early years of the war, from the battle of 'Ayn Jalut in 1260 to the battle of Homs in 1281....
Routledge, 2008. — 208 p. — ISBN10: 0415463602 / ISBN13: 978-0415463607. The Ghazi Sultans were frontier holy-warrior kings of late medieval and early modern Islamic history. This book is a comparative study of three particular Ghazis in the Muslim world at that time, demonstrating the extent to which these men were influenced by the actions and writings of their predecessors...
Brill Academic Pub, 2015. — 250 p. In Saladin, the Almohads and the Banū Ghāniya, Amar Baadj gives us the first comprehensive, modern study of a fascinating but little-known episode in the history of the medieval Mediterranean. This is the story of the long struggle between the Almohad caliphs of the Maghrib, the Banū Ghāniya of Majorca, and the Ayyubids for dominance of North...
Routledge / Chapman & Hall, 1998. — ISBN: 978-0700706310. Qaidu (1236-1301), one of the great rebels in the history of the Mongol Empire, was the grandson of Ogedei, the son Genghis Khan had chosen to be his heir. This book recounts the dynastic convolutions and power struggle leading up to his rebellion and subsequent events.
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 300 p. — ISBN10: 0521842263 ISBN13: 9780521842266. The empire of the Qara Khitai, which was one of the least known and most fascinating dynasties in the history of Central Asia, existed for nearly a century before it was conquered by the Mongols in1218. Arriving in Central Asia from China, the Qara Khitai ruled over a mostly Muslim...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 416 p. A complete history of the Fatimids, showing the significance of the empire to Islam and the wider worldThe Fatimid empire in North Africa, Egypt and Syria was at the centre of the political and religious history of the Islamic world in the Middle Ages, from the breakdown of the aAbbasid empire in the tenth century, to the invasions of...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 215 p. Michael Chamberlain focuses on medieval Damascus to develop a new approach to the relationship between the society and culture of the Middle East. The author argues that historians have long imposed European strictures onto societies to which they were alien. Western concepts of legitimate order were inappropriate to medieval Muslim...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 458 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series). — ISBN 978-0-521-19697-0 (hardback). What did it mean to be Roman once the Roman Empire had collapsed in the West? «Staying Roman» examines Roman identities in the region of modern Tunisia and Algeria between the fifth-century Vandal conquest and the...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006. — xiii, 520 p. This the first critical biography of Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur, the founder of one of the great pre-modern Islamic empires, the Timurid-Mughul empire of India. It contains an original evaluation of his life and writings as well as fresh insights into both the nature of empire building and the character of the Timurid-Mughul state....
Brill, 2010. — 270 p. In the thirteenth century, the Armenians of Greater Armenia and of the Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia were invaded by Mongol nomads of the Inner Asian steppe. The ensuing Mongol-Armenian relations were varied. The Greater Armenians became subjects of the Mongol Empire, whereas the Cilician Armenians, by entering into vassalage, became allies and furthered the...
Brill, 2016. — 360 p. "The Mongols Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran" offers a collection of academic articles that investigate different aspects of Mongol rule in 13th- and 14th-century Iran. Sometimes treated only as part of the larger Mongol Empire, the volume focuses on the Ilkhanate (1258-1335) with particular reference to its relations with its...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 488 p. — ISBN: 978-0521849265. This volume centres on the history and legacy of the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan and his sons, including its impact upon the modern world. An international team of scholars examines the political and cultural history of the Mongol empire, its Chinggisid successor states, and the non-Chinggisid...
Routledge, 2008. — 386 p. This volume presents a selection of the key studies in which leading scholars since the beginning of the 20th century attempt to explain the phenomenally rapid expansion of the early Islamic state during the 7th century CE. The articles debate the causes for the conquest movement or expansion, the reasons for its success, the nature of the movement...
Princetown University Press, 1981. — 489 p. In this contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature and causes of the Islamic conquests in Syria and Iraq during the sixth and seventh centuries, Fred Donner argues for a necessary distinction between the causes of the conquests, the causes of their success, and the causes of the subsequent Arab migrations to the Fertile Crescent.
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 460 p. This book tells the compelling story of a Christian noblewoman named Tamta in the thirteenth century. Born to an Armenian family at the court of queen Tamar of Georgia, she was ransomed in marriage to nephews of Saladin after her father was captured during a siege. She was later raped and then married by the Khwarazmshah and held...
Routledge, 2003. — 336 p. Muslims first appeared in the early seventh century as members of a persecuted religious movement in a sun-baked town in Arabia. Within a century, their descendants were ruling a vast territory that extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indus River valley in modern Pakistan. This region became the arena for a new cultural experiment in which Muslim...
University of California Press, 1976. — 384 p. This book aims to show that the Near East was in the middle ages not at all a static, unchanging society. On the contrary, the attempt will be made to disclose momentous changes in the social framework of the Near Eastern population and to delineate great social movements. It will be argued that even in the Near East the bourgeois...
I. B. Tauris, 2010. — 288 p. — ISBN: 9781845116514. Despite the importance of the Almohads in African, Near Eastern and European history, very little is currently known about who exactly the Almohads were and why they were so successful. In this book, which is the first systematic study and analysis in English of the foundational myths about the rise of the Almohads as...
2nd ed. — Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998. — 263 p. — ISBN: 1-55876-111-X. A study of the heritage of Central Asia. It brings together such distinct elements as the world of Zoroaster, the Achaemenid ecumene, the Sakas and later waves of nomadic invaders, the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Road, the historic role of the Turks, and more. With the breakup of the...
London: The Royal Asiatic Society, 1923. — 101 p. A valuable study of the early conquest of Central Asia , known as Transoxia. Whilst the Ummayads where busy conquering the Maghrib and Andalusia, Persia, and the Sudan , they also brought Islam to the Turkic dominated Central Asia. This would have far reaching consequences in the development of the islamic empires. With the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 288 p. How was violence justified in early Islam? What role did violent actions play in the formation and maintenance of the Muslim political order? How did Muslim thinkers view the origins and acceptability of violence? These questions are addressed by an international range of eminent authors through both general accounts of types of violence...
Versita, 2013. — 196 p. — ISBN: 978-83-7656-029-8. Stone statues, indigenous to the early Turks, appeared in the vast territory of the Asian steppes, from Southern Siberia to Central Asia and across the foothills of the Ural Mountains. The custom originated among Cumans in Eastern Europe. The skill of erecting anthropomorphic stelae required proficiency in processing different...
Institute for Ismaili Studies, 2006. — 279 p. — ISBN: 9781850438854 This is an annotated English translation of Qadi al-Nu'man's Iftitah al-de' wa. This book is the most important primary source for the emergence of the Fatimid state in the early years of the tenth century. Its author, Qadi al-Nu'man, was an official historian of the Fatimids and an eminent exponent of Ismaili...
Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 1975. — 368 p. Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East (the former: Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Vorderen Orients) are published as supplement to Der Islam founded in 1910 by Carl Heinrich Becker, an early practitioner of the modern study of Islam. Following Becker's lead, the mission of the series is the study of past...
Routledge, 2005. — 316 p. The period from about 1100 to 1350 in the Middle East was marked by continued interaction between the local Muslim rulers and two groups of non-Muslim invaders: the Frankish crusaders from Western Europe and the Mongols from northeastern Asia. In deflecting the threat those invaders presented, a major role was played by the Mamluk state which arose in...
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 224 p. The extraordinary character and career of Saladin are the keys to understanding the Battle of Hattin, the fall of Jerusalem and the failure of the Third Crusade. He united warring Muslim lands, reconquered the bulk of Crusader states and faced the Richard the Lion Heart, king of England, in one of the most famous confrontations in medieval...
The Mongols Proper and the Kalmyks. — London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876. — 743 p. This 1876 work is a comprehensive history of the nomad tribes who dominated Central Asia during the early centuries of the last millennium, and of their great rulers: the khans. Drawing firsthand on numerous scholarly sources and full of illustrative detail and entertaining anecdotes, this...
Southern Illinois University Press, 1986. — 180 p. For over two hundred and fifty years the Mamluks ruled one of the great territorial Empires of the Middle Ages, centered on Egypt and Syria and controlling, at times, most of the Middle East. Irwin now provides the first scholarly history of this period in any Western language. He makes clear the unique political system of...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2006. — 679 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts. Vol. 64). — ISBN13: 978-90-04-15083-6; ISBN10: 90-04-15083-8. This publication offers a wide-ranging account of the Mongols in western and eastern Asia in the aftermath of Genghis Khan's disruptive invasions of the early thirteenth century, focusing on the significant cultural,...
Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (August 11, 2008) — 302 p. — ISBN10: 0521887828 / ISBN13: 978-0521887823 An in-depth study of the phenomenon of punishment, both divine and human, in eleventh-to-thirteenth-century Islamic society. This book examines the relationship between state and society in meting out justice, Muslim attitudes to hell and the legal dimensions of...
2nd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 970 p. This new edition of one of the most widely used course books on Islamic civilizations around the world has been substantially revised to incorporate the new scholarship and insights of the last twenty-five years. Ira Lapidus' history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 788 p. — ISBN10: 0521732980 / ISBN13: 978-0521732987. Ira Lapidus' global history of Islamic societies, first published in 1988, has become a classic in the field. For over two decades, it has enlightened students, scholars, and others with a thirst for knowledge about one of the world's great civilizations. This book is based on parts one...
Cambridge University Press — 1984 — 228 p. — ISBN10: 0521277620 / ISBN13: 978-0521277624 First published in 1967, Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages is one of the most influential works in the field of Islamic history. Primarily a study of the main cities of the Mamluk state of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD, Professor Lapidus' book serves to provide a framework...
SUNY Press, 2005. — 285 p. A Culture of Sufism opens a window to a new understanding of one of the most prolific and enduring of all the Sufi brotherhoods, the Naqshbandiyya, as it spread from its birthplace in central Asia to Iran, Anatolia, Arabia, and the Balkans between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on original sources and carefully aware of the power of...
Routledge, 2023. — 224 p. The Turkic Peoples in World History is a thorough and rare introduction to the Turkic world and its role in world history, providing a concise history of the Turkic peoples as well as a critical discussion of their identities and origins. The "Turks" stepped onto the stage of history by establishing the Türk Qaghanate, the first trans-Eurasian empire...
Basic Books, 2002. — 176 p. The Assassins is a comprehensive, readable, and authoritative account of history's first terrorists. An offshoot of the Ismaili Shi'ite sect of Islam, the Assassins were the first group to make systematic use of murder as a political weapon. Established in Iran and Syria in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, they aimed to overthrow the existing...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 278 p. The Mamluk City in the Middle East offers an interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience, and the nature of urbanism in the region under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517). The book focuses on three less-explored but politically significant cities in the Syrian region - Jerusalem, Safad (now in Israel), and...
Da Capo Press, 2016. — 312 p. Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the twelfth century, he is the Islamic world's preeminent hero. A ruthless defender of his faith and brilliant leader, he also possessed qualities that won admiration from his Christian foes. But Saladin is far more...
BRILL, 2010 - 282 p. ISBN10: 9004184279 ISBN13: 9789004184275 For four decades Abraham L. Udovitch has been a leading scholar of the medieval Islamic world, its economic institutions, social structures, and legal theory and practice. In pursuing his quest to understand and explain the complex phenomena that these broad rubrics entail, he has published widely, collaborated...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 364 p. In the early sixteenth century, the political landscape of West Asia was completely transformed: of the previous four major powers, only one - the Ottoman Empire - continued to exist. Ottoman survival was, in part, predicated on transition to a new mode of kingship, enabling its transformation from regional dynastic sultanate to empire...
Penguin Books Ltd., 2014. — 512 p. In Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, celebrated young travel writer-historian Justin Marozzi gives us a many-layered history of one of the world's truly great cities - both its spectacular golden ages and its terrible disasters. Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and...
Oxford University Press, Inc. 1933. — 318 p. Prof. Leo Arie Mayer, a renowned scholar of the archaeology and art of the Middle East, and a former rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For a few exceptions, all Mayer's published work is concerned with Islamic subjects. It is, however, for his outstanding contributions in the fields of islamic heraldry, epigraphy and...
London, N.-Y. : Routledge. Francis & Taylor Group, 2006. — 878 p. — ISBN: 978-0415966900. Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the seventh and sixteenth century. This important two-volume work contains over 700 alphabetically arranged entries, contributed and signed by international scholars and experts...
Madrid: Síntesis, 1992. — 177 p. El objetivo principal de esta obra ha sido ofrecer una visión general y clara de la historia de las sociedades musulmanas medievales. Se ha intentado ofrecer explicaciones coherentes que puedan dar una idea precisa del complejo devenir de unos pueblos por lo general ignorados por la historia eurocentrista.
I.B. Tauris, 2018. — 160 p. The Mongol invasions in the first half of the thirteenth century led to profound and shattering changes to the historical trajectory of Islamic West Asia. As this new volume in The Idea of Iran series suggests, sudden conquest from the east was preceded by events closer to home which laid the groundwork for the later Mongol success. In the...
I.B.Tauris, 2016. — 292 p. Beginning on the eve of Oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, The Ottomans and the Mamluks traces the growth of the Ottoman Empire from a tiny Anatolian principality to a world power, and the relative decline of the Mamluks - historic defenders of Mecca and Medina and the rulers of Egypt and...
I.B.Tauris, 2016. — 292 p. Beginning on the eve of Oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, The Ottomans and the Mamluks traces the growth of the Ottoman Empire from a tiny Anatolian principality to a world power, and the relative decline of the Mamluks - historic defenders of Mecca and Medina and the rulers of Egypt and...
Osprey Publishing Limited, 2011. — 70 p. This Osprey Command book looks closely at the early life, military experiences and key battlefield exploits of Al-Malik al-Nasir Yusuf Ibn Najm al-Din Ayyub Ibn Shahdi Abu'l-Muzaffar Salah al-Din - or Saladin as he is more commonly known outside the Islamic world - who is broadly regarded as the greatest hero of the Crusades, even in...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 325 p. From a Christian, Greek- and Armenian-speaking land to a predominantly Muslim and Turkish speaking one, the Islamisation of medieval Anatolia would lay the groundwork for the emergence of the Ottoman Empire as a world power and ultimately the modern Republic of Turkey. Bringing together previously unpublished sources in Arabic, Persian...
Vintage Digital, 2019. — 520 p. An epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biography of one of history’s most venerated military and religious heroes opens a window on the Islamic and Christian worlds’ complex relationship. In 1187, Saladin marched triumphantly into Jerusalem, ending decades of struggle against the Christians and reclaiming the...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 314 p. "How could I allow my soldiers to sail on this disloyal and cruel sea?". These words, attributed to the most powerful caliph of medieval Islam, Umar Ibn al-Khattab (634–644), have led to a misunderstanding in the West about the importance of the Mediterranean to early Islam. This body of water, known in Late Antiquity as the Sea of the...
Yale University Press, 1981. — 278 p. Even a cursory glance at the history of Muslim peoples reveals the extraordinary role played by men of slave origins in the armed forces. On the one hand it is a specialist contribution to the history, particularly the early history, of Islam, on the other it is an important and original contribution to the growing corpus of military...
Routledge, 2010. — 288 p. During much of the twelfth century the Crusaders dominated the military scene in the Levant. The unification of Egypt and Syria by Saladin gradually changed the balance of power, which slowly begun to tilt in favour of the Muslims. This book examines the development and role of Muslim fortresses in the Levant at the time of the Crusaders and the Mongol...
Brill, 2010. — 366 p. Though nations are nowadays seen as the product of modernity, comparable processes of community building were taking place even earlier. Thus the history of the Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syrian Christians shows that close-knit ethnic groups already existed in Late Antiquity and early medieval times. These communities have endured to the present day....
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 248 p. The thirteenth century marks a turning point in the history of the western Mediterranean. The armies of Castile and Aragon won significant and decisive victories over Muslims in Iberia and took over a number of important cities including Cordoba, Seville, Jaen, and Murcia. Chased out of their native cities, a large number of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 248 p. The thirteenth century marks a turning point in the history of the western Mediterranean. The armies of Castile and Aragon won significant and decisive victories over Muslims in Iberia and took over a number of important cities including Cordoba, Seville, Jaen, and Murcia. Chased out of their native cities, a large number of...
New English Review Press, 2014. — 200 p. According to Bernard Lewis, the doyen of Middle Eastern studies at Princeton University, during “most” of the Middle Ages, “it was neither the older cultures of the Orient nor the newer cultures of the West that were the major centers of civilization and progress, but the world of Islam in the middle. It was there that old sciences were...
Brill, 2004. - 437 p. About the Translator of the Diary and Author of the. Preface of the Project Director. Preface of the Director of the Institute of Oriental. Studies. Introduction by Muhammadjon Shakuri (Shukurov): Íadr-i Óiyà and his Diary. Translator’s Notes. Diary.
Shaikh Muhammad Ashraf, 1942. — 193 p. The book opens with a short survey of the political conditions at Baghdad in the middle of the third/ninth century, showing how far the theory of the functions of the Caliphate corresponded to the actual practice of the time. The "revolt" of the Saffarids by extorting certain concessions from the Caliphate began the separation of temporal...
London: Variorum Reprints, 1977. — 392 p. This book contains a selection from Denis Sinor’s non-linguistic articles published in French and in English between 1939 and 1975. They are grouped into two sections. The first of these contains studies aimed at defining Central Eurasia (Inner Asia) as a cultural concept or at studying some problems presented by the region in the...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 384 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-65704-4. The beginnings The Kök Turks, the Chinese expansion, and the Arab conquest The Samanids The Uighur kingdom of Qocho The Qarakhanids Seljukids and Ghaznavids The conquering Mongols The Chaghatayids Timur and the Timurids The last Timurids and the first Uzbeks The Shaybanids The rise of Russia, the fall of...
Princeton University Press — 2015 — 680 p. — ISBN10: 0691165858 / ISBN13: 978-0691165851 In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds--remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 680 p. — ISBN10: 0691165858 / ISBN13: 978-0691165851. In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds--remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern...
Brill Publishers, 2016. — 511 p. In Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage Jo van Steenbergen presents a new study, edition and translation of al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk fī Ḏikr man Ḥağğa min al-Ḫulafāʾ wa-l-Mulūk, a summary history of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca by al-Maqrīzī (766-845 AH/ca. 1365-1442 CE). Traditionally...
Time Life Education, 1989. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 0809464209 / ISBN13: 978-0809464203 This books looks at the seventh and eighth centuries in Arabia, Byzantium, Europe, China and Japan, and discusses the role religion played in each culture.
Brill, 2018. — 668 p. Prince, Pen, and Sword offers a synoptic interpretation of rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Four core chapters zoom in on the tensions and connections at court, on the nexus between rulers and religious authority, on the status, function, and self-perceptions of military and administrative elites respectively. Two...
Brill, 2018. — 668 p. Prince, Pen, and Sword offers a synoptic interpretation of rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Four core chapters zoom in on the tensions and connections at court, on the nexus between rulers and religious authority, on the status, function, and self-perceptions of military and administrative elites respectively. Two...
Monograph. — London, I.B.Tauris, 2012. — 240 p. Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world's truly great travellers. Born in 14th century Morocco, and a contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta has left us an account in his own words of his remarkable journeys throughout the Islamic world and beyond: journeys punctuated by adventure and peril, and stretching from his home...
Frontline Books, 2008. — 227 p. Few people know the truth about the enigmatic organization known as the Assassins, an underground group of political killers, they were ready to kill Christians and Muslims alike with complete disregard for the consequences of their actions. Although their empire was destroyed in the 13th Century, have a controversial legacy which still resonates...
Brill, 2004. — 485 p. — ISBN: 9789004132863 This work consists of 19 studies by historians of the Mamluks. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, the studies discuss central political, military, urban, social, administrative, economic, financial and religious aspects of the Mamluk Empire that was established in 1250 by Mamluks.
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 378 p. The caliphs and sultans who once ruled the Muslim world were often assisted by powerful Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian, and other non-Muslim state officials, whose employment occasioned energetic discussions among Muslim scholars and rulers. This book reveals those discussions for the first time in all their diversity, drawing on...
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