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The Persians ruled for a thousand years and did not need us Arabs even for a day. We have been ruling them for one or two centuries and cannot do without them for an hour.
—
Abbasid Caliphate
, in Bertold Spuler
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The Muslim World. Vol. I The Age of the Caliphs.
Leiden. E.J. Brill. 1960
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0-685-23328-6
p.29
