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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Across its avatars and transformations, the baqt has always, as far as it is possible to judge, retained two essential characteristics: on the one hand, it shielded Nubia from holy war for more than six centuries at a time when Islam was carried from Europe to China; on the other hand, it instituted a system of very asymmetrical obligations in favor of Egypt.”
— The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by François-Xavier Fauvelle
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