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                "inscription": "\"inni la-'a'lamu wal-layl janan anna al-jannah fi arja' difafihi",
                "inscription_translation": "I know full well that even though night is darkness, Paradise lies on its outer edges.",
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                "citation": "Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"Reevaluating the Date of the \"Buyid\" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis.\" <em>Ars Orientalis</em> 22 (1992): 1-41.",
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