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The cover image, depicting the kaʿba, is taken from the Ottoman Turkish Metaliʿü'l-saadet ve yenabiʿü-l-siyadet by Seyyid Mohammed ibn Emir Hasan el-Suʿudī, copied in 1582, Gallica, BnF, Cote de la matrice: R 15491.
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