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As the writer and compiler of this work, I am indebted to the scholars who took the time and made the effort to preserve the history of accomplishment of the individuals, groups and peoples which are listed herein.  I am particularly indebted to a few select sources of information without which this work could not have been written.  First and foremost, the online sources Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, and answers.com have been of great assistance.  Those sources have proven to be invaluable along with such hardbound sources as The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, edited by John L. Esposito; Encyclopedia of Asian History, edited by Ainslie T. Embree;  Encyclopedia of the Orient, edited by Tore Kjeilen; Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, edited by Richard V. Weekes; Lipschutz, Mark R. and Rasmussen, R. Kent;  Dictionary of African Historical Biography, by Mark R. Lipschutz and Kent R. Rasmussen; The Penguin Companion to Classical, Oriental & African Literature, edited by D. M. Lang and D. R. Dudley; McGreal, Ian P., ed.; Great Thinkers of the Eastern World, edited by Ian P. McGreal; and Islamic Desk Reference, compiled by E. van Donzel.  To the authors, editors and compilers of these sources, as well as the authors, editors, and compilers of the sources that follow, I am compelled to express my deepest gratitude.

 

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