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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 45 — HISTORY OF AL-HAJJAJ BIN YUSUF AND THE YOUNG SAYYID.[42]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

A neat specimen of the figure anachronism. Al-Hajjaj died in A.H. 95 (= A.D. 714), and Cairo was built in A.H. 358 (= A.D. 968).

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