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‘Utbi and the Ghaznavids at the Foot of the Mountain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Ali Anooshahr
Ali Anooshahr*
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Department of History, UCLA
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Iranian Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 271 - 291
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