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‘During the 13^th century,* the Islamic lands were exposed, on the political plane, to the onslaught of the Mongols and the abolition of the Abbasid caliphate, while vast areas were laid to waste. Yet this was in fact the period during which Islamic literatures reached their zenith.’

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*2048J~1280[ce]

**– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22]: 56

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