http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - the growth of a city in a peripheral site bereft of natural resources? (Crone 1987:7) It wasn't incense, spices, and other exotic goods, as many notoriously unreliable earlier writers have suggested but more recent, reliable research finds the Arabs engaged in a trade of leather and clothing; hardly items which could have founded a commercial empire of international dimensions. e) Sloppy researc
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