Winners are the favourites of heaven. — Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
Winners are the favourites of heaven. — Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
Winners are the favourites of heaven. — Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
Winners are the favourites of heaven. — Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
Winners are the favourites of heaven. — Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
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Winners are the favourites of heaven.

— Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
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