This electronic edition published in 2016 by
Hoopoe
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Hoopoe is an imprint of the American University in Cairo Press
Copyright © 2000 by Abdelilah Hamdouchi
First published in Arabic in 2000 as al-Dhubaba al-bayda’ by al-Muttaqī Brīntira
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English translation copyright © 2016 by Jonathan Smolin
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ISBN 978 977 416 751 5
eISBN 978 1 61797 722 0
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