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Mar 2011
28m 4s

A'yan thabita and Time

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Jaakko Hameen-Anttila (b. 1963) is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Helsinki University (Finland). He has published on Classical Arabic literature and cultural history. His latest book is "The Last Pagans of Iraq. A Study on the Religious, Philosophical, and Literary Aspects of Ibn Wahshiyya's Nabatean Agriculture" 
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