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STUDIES IN HISTORY, ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC LAW

EDITED BY THE FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Volume LXVIII] [Whole Number 163

THE ORIGINS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE


BEING A TRANSLATION FROM THE ARABIC
ACCOMPANIED WITH ANNOTATIONS
GEOGRAPHIC AND HISTORIC NOTES OF THE


KITÂB FUTÛḤ AL-BULDÂN

OF

al-Imâm abu-l ʿAbbâs Aḥmad ibn-Jâbir al-Balâdhuri


BY

PHILIP KHÛRI ḤITTI, Ph.D.

On the permanent staff of the Syrian Protestant College, Beirût, Syria
Gustav Gottheil Lecturer in Columbia University

Vol. I

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1916