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The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 1 (of 3)

Note 463 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

David Shea translation

Jâafriyah is a town in the Arabian Irak, so called from its builder, Jâfar, the original name of the khalif who assumed the title of Matavakhel al Allah, “he who confides in God.”—A. T.

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