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The New Cities in Iraq: Kufa, Basra and Mosul, 636-40

The Muslim forces were a small population of conquerors in a very large settled agricultural society. Now that they controlled it, they were free to settle or build in it. They could have begun a massive migration from dry Arabia … Continue reading

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