| Acknowledgments |
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| Abbreviations |
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| Note on Dates, Names, and Transliteration |
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| Plates |
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| Introduction: The Mufti of the Masters of Gazes |
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1 New Directions for the Reconstruction of Sa'di's Biography |
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9 | (8) |
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2 From the Fall of Baghdad to the Rise of the Juvayni Family: the Need for Patronage and the Renewal of Sa'di's Fame |
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17 | (3) |
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3 After 1270: Political Instability in Fars, Sa'di's New Travels, and the Construction of a Sufi Lodge |
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20 | (5) |
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4 Chasing the Original Ghazals: Manuscripts, Mouvances, and Inimitable Smoothness |
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25 | (4) |
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5 Through the Mirror of the Manuscripts |
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29 | (3) |
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6 Sa'di's "Inimitable Smoothness" |
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32 | (1) |
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7 Sa'di through the Eyes of Premodern Manuscripts |
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33 | (12) |
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PART 1 Uncovering the Skin of the Ghazal |
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45 | (2) |
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47 | (6) |
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53 | (3) |
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1 The Homoerotics of Political Power and the Emergence of Gendered Desires |
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56 | (43) |
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1 From the Fall of Baghdad to the Gendered Nature of Desire |
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56 | (5) |
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2 Bawdy Portrayals and Homoerotic "Confessions" |
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61 | (5) |
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3 Homoeroticism and Gender (in)Difference |
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66 | (3) |
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4 The Homoerotic Hermeneutics of the Medieval Body |
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69 | (17) |
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5 The Lyric Threshold of Sa'di's Encomia |
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86 | (6) |
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6 "God Gave the East and the West to the Ilkhan" |
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92 | (7) |
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2 Movements and Gazes in the Rose Garden Pseudo-Biographical Experience, Political Engagement, and Fictive Sensuality in the Emergence of a Lyric Voice |
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99 | (52) |
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1 "Pluck a Petal from my Rose Garden ... / May it Shine Forever!" |
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100 | (4) |
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2 Chasing Sa'di's "I": between Subjectivity and Biographical Indetermination |
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104 | (5) |
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3 Prince Sa'd II as Sa'di's "Implied Reader" |
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109 | (5) |
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4 Courting Prince Sa'd II through Narratives of Piety and Desire |
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114 | (10) |
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5 Involving the Atabeg as a Figurative Witness of Erotic Explorations |
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124 | (9) |
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6 Articulating the Ghazal: Lyric Reality and Confessional Fiction |
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133 | (4) |
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7 Accessing the Body of the Lyric |
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137 | (3) |
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8 Flirting in the Friday Mosque of Kashgan Grammar and Rhetoric as Geographical Forms of Seduction |
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140 | (11) |
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3 The Obscene Revisited From the Sexual Reification of the Body to its Spiritual Fetishization |
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151 | (56) |
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151 | (7) |
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2 Interpreting the Obscene |
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158 | (5) |
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3 None of them Can I Say to You: the Obscene as a Cognitive Exploration of the Body |
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163 | (9) |
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4 Persian Pornography as a Lyrical Undertone |
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172 | (12) |
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5 The Euphemism and its Undetermined Flesh |
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184 | (7) |
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6 The Beloved's Body as a Shifting Object of Desire |
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191 | (2) |
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7 Re-Orienting the Experience of Gender: from the Grotesque to Spiritual Epiphany |
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193 | (14) |
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PART 2 Through the Mirror of your Glances: The Sacred Aesthetics of Sa'di's Lyric Subject |
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207 | (1) |
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1 Amidst the Mud and the Heart |
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207 | (5) |
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2 "I Behold You Through Your Eyes": for a Lyric Anthropology of Vision |
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212 | (5) |
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3 Sa'di and the Saints of Shiraz: between Detached Homage and the Cult of Beauty |
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217 | (7) |
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4 Shahid-bazi: Sufi Eroticism |
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224 | (3) |
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5 Religious and Lyrical Renewals and the Influence of al-Ghazali and Avicenna |
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227 | (5) |
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4 The Body as a Divine Sign The Hermeneutics of Spiritual Desire |
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232 | (39) |
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1 Prostration, Desire, and Bewilderment |
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233 | (3) |
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2 Seeing God: Introvertive and Contemplative Modalities |
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236 | (9) |
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245 | (5) |
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4 Interpreting the Body of the Text: Spiritual Hermeneutics |
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250 | (5) |
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5 The Body as an Inference: between Lust and Incarnationism |
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255 | (6) |
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6 From Incarnation to Affinity: the Body as a Qibla |
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261 | (10) |
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5 The 'Arif as a Beholder The Divine Pen Depicting the Khatt of the Beloved |
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271 | (30) |
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1 Beholding the Fashioner through the Depicted |
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272 | (5) |
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2 Spiritual Cognition and Meditation as an Active Theo-Erotic Quest |
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277 | (24) |
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6 Between the Rational Soul and the Internal Senses For a Psychology of the Lyric Subject |
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301 | (51) |
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1 The Avicennian Revolution: from Spiritual Hermeneutics to Sensory Cognition |
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301 | (6) |
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2 Beyond Sufi Normativity: the Sensory Aspect of Sa'di's Lyricism |
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307 | (5) |
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3 The Philosophical Physiology of Love as an Aesthetic Experience: Avicenna's Epistle on 'Ishq |
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312 | (6) |
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4 Avicennian Psychology, or the Science of the Soul |
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318 | (5) |
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5 The Internal Senses and the Cognitive Foundations of the Lyric Subject |
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323 | (10) |
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6 Through the Mirror of My Imaginings |
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333 | (5) |
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7 Projecting the Senses Toward the Realm of the Unseen |
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338 | (10) |
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8 The Visible World and the Realm of the Supernal |
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348 | (4) |
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7 Spiritual Cardiology The Heart as a Mirror Reflecting the Unseen |
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352 | (38) |
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1 Imagining the Limits of the Imagination |
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353 | (1) |
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2 The Practical Intellect as a Bridge between Mulk and Malakut |
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354 | (4) |
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3 The Intoxicating Fragrance of the Unseen |
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358 | (4) |
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4 Mukashafa and Mushahada: from the Science of Unveiling to Spiritual Vision |
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362 | (4) |
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366 | (8) |
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6 The Cosmology of the Heart, Between Philosophy and Poetry |
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374 | (10) |
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7 From the Rational-Inferential Modality to the Imaginal-Cosmological Approach |
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384 | (6) |
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8 Beholding Beauty The Flesh, the Forms, and the Meanings of the Visionary Experience |
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390 | (53) |
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1 Painting and Polishing: the Competition Between the Greek and the Chinese Artists |
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392 | (5) |
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2 Majaz and Haqiqat: Embodying the Images |
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397 | (4) |
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3 The Five Stages of the Visionary Experience |
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401 | (11) |
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4 The Preliminary Contact, between Physiology, Experience, and Lyricism |
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412 | (10) |
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5 Phases Three and Four: Spiritual Frustration and Soothing Retrieval of the Experience |
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422 | (8) |
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6 Transgressing the Boundaries of Lust and Incarnationism |
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430 | (5) |
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7 Beyond the Chinese and Greek Paintings, and toward the Performative Boundaries of the Lyric |
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435 | (8) |
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PART 3 The Lyrical Ritual (Sama') as the Performative Space of Sacred Eroticism |
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443 | (1) |
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1 Experiencing almost the Same Thing |
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443 | (7) |
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9 "Where is This Singer From? He Shouted the Name of the Beloved!" Toward a Chronological and Psycho-Physiological Approach to Sama' in Sa'di's Ghazals |
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450 | (49) |
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1 The Tayyibat as the Enactment of the Ethics of Eroticism |
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451 | (7) |
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2 The Baddyi' and the Khavdtim: toward a Deeper Erotic Awareness |
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458 | (10) |
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3 The Aesthetic Grounds of the "Sublime Sensation" |
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468 | (7) |
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4 The Psycho-Physiological of the Lyrical Ritual |
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475 | (5) |
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5 Sa'di's Ethics of Sama' |
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480 | (8) |
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6 Poetry as a Controlled Form of Sexual Desire: Sama' and Shahid-bazi |
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488 | (11) |
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10 The Ghazal as Description of Performance, Ritualized Script, and "Performative" Analogue of Sama' |
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499 | (20) |
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1 From Descriptive Locution to Scripted Performance |
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508 | (5) |
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2 Transfiguring the Text into a Performative Experience |
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513 | (6) |
| Epilogue: Poetry as a Mirror for Experience |
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519 | (6) |
| Appendix: Original Texts |
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525 | (117) |
| Bibliography |
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642 | (46) |
| Index |
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