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% code which C.V. Radhakrishnan added to make the unicode carry
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Ibn al-Faḍl is called a \ar{كاتب} in the title of one of his treatises.\footcite[131]{sbath1929vingt-traites} On ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Faḍl, see also Treiger and Feghali.\footnote{\cite{treiger2011abdallah-ibn-al-fadl}; \cite{feghali2009abdallah-ibn-al-fadl}.}




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