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I - Patterns, Paradigms, Scholarship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2024

Elizabeth S. Bolman
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Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
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University of Oklahoma
Jack Tannous
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Princeton University, New Jersey
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Worlds of Byzantium
Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East
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