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Complexities: Not all<br />

<strong>manuscripts</strong> of the Middle<br />

East are always entirely in<br />

Arabic script and in the<br />

Arabic language.<br />

Example: Beginning of Sifr<br />

Ayyub al-Barr, the Book Job,<br />

of the Old Testament, in<br />

Coptic and Arabic. Dated<br />

1508/1792<br />

Source: MS Leiden, Or. 14.544, f. 4a

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