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• Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The End of the USSR and a New Perception of Religion;
• 1. Inherited Islam: An Islam Marked by Russian and Soviet Domination;
• 2. Turkey as an Islamic Actor in Central Asia and the Caucasus;
• 3. Iran: A Minor Religious Actor in Central Asia and the Caucasus;
• 4. Influences from the Arabian Peninsula on the Revival of Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus;
• 5. South Asia's Influence on the Revival of Islam in Central Asia;
• 6. The Administration of Religion in the Newly Independent Republics

• Conclusion: The End of Islam in the SingularNotes; Bibliography; Index

• Machine generated contents note:
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Glossary
• List of Photographs
• Introduction
• Part I: Gradualist Islamization:
• 1. Infusing Islam in Connected Societies
• 2. Sufis, Sufism and Conversion Narratives
• Part II: Populist Islamization:
• 3. Kerajaan Prosetylism
• 4. Women and Other Islamizers
• Part III: Reformist Islamization:
• 5. Islam and Colonialism
• 6. Repertoires of Muslim Resistance
• Part IV: Triumphalist Islamization:
• 7. Constructing a Malay-Triumphalist Islam
• 8. Nationalizing Islam, Islamizing the Nation
• Bibliography
• Index.

This book surveys the growth and development of Islam in Malaysia from the eleventh to the twenty-first century, investigating how Islam has shaped the social lives, languages, cultures and politics of both Muslims and non-Muslims in one of the most populous Muslim regions in the world. Khairudin Aljunied shows how Muslims in Malaysia built upon the legacy of their pre-Islamic past while benefiting from Islamic ideas, values, and networks to found flourishing states and societies that have played an influential role in a globalizing world. He examines the movement of ideas, peoples, goods, technologies, arts, and cultures across into and out of Malaysia over the centuries. Interactions between Muslims and the local Malay population began as early as the eighth century, sustained by trade and the agency of Sufi as well as Arab, Indian, Persian, and Chinese scholars and missionaries. Aljunied looks at how Malay states and societies survived under colonial regimes that heightened racial and religious divisions, and how Muslims responded through violence as well as reformist movements. Although there have been tensions and skirmishes between Muslims and non-Muslims in Malaysia, they have learned in the main to co-exist harmoniously, creating a society comprising of a variety of distinct populations. This is the first book to provide a seamless account of the millennium-old venture of Islam in Malaysia.
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• Dedication Acknowledgments Preface: "Here is New York" & my research concerns Introduction I. A taboo breaking project II. Study organization
• Chapter 1: "Islamic Apologetics" and Islamic Studies I. On"Islamic Apologetics" II. Western Islamic studies III. Modern trends in Qur'anic studies IV. Studying Islam outside its core lands
• Chapter 2: The Qur'an in the Muslim Academy: What Should Be Censored? I. Muslims' views of western Islamic studies II. Western works in the Muslim academy: Rippin's Qur'anic studies III. Studying the Qur'an in Muslim universities and seminaries IV. Reading the Qur'an with other materials V. Self-sufficiency in academic production VI. Muslims' reading of Muhammad's adopted son, Zayd
• Chapter 3: The Sectarian Study of Islam: A Culture of Isolation and the Isolation of Cultures I. From the Islamization of Biblical literature to the sectarianizing of the Muslim academy II. The Forgotten East III. Reception and marginalization of minorities IV. Forgetting the language and culture of everywhere/always
• Chapter 4: Hatred of Iinferiority and Confrontation with the West: Forgetting Some-- Remembering Others I. Forgetting western scholars of the Qur'an: origins II. E. W. Said's Orientalism III. Muslim study of the Qur'an in the light of Orientalism IV. Mis-understanding of Europeans in Orientalism V. Remembering scientists Final Remarks I. Conclusions II. "Islamic Apologetics" everywhere Bibliography Index.
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Studying the Qur'an in the Muslim Academy examines what it is like to study and teach the Qur'an at academic institutions in the Muslim world, and how politics affect scholarly interpretations of the text. Guided by the author's own journey as a student, university lecturer, and researcher in Iran, Malaysia, and New Zealand, this book provides vivid accounts of the complex academic politics he encountered. Majid Daneshgar describes the selective translation and editing of Edward Said's classic work Orientalism into various Islamic languages, and the way Said's work is weaponized to question the credibility of contemporary Western-produced scholarship in Islamic studies. Daneshgar also examines networks of journals, research centers, and universities in both Sunni and Shia contexts, and looks at examples of Quranic interpretation there. Ultimately, he offers a constructive program for enriching Islamic studies by fusing the best of Western theories with the best philological practices developed in Muslim academic contexts, aimed at encouraging respectful but critical engagement with the Qur'an.
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• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface: Scholar with a Cause
• Introduction: Mariam Abou Zahab's Multiscalar Approach to Islamism: The Social and Local Roots of Sectarianism and Jihadism in Pakistan
• Part One: Militant Sunnism And Shiism in Pakistan
• 1. Pakistan: From Religious Conservatism to Political Radicalism
• 2. The Politicization of the Shia Community in Pakistan
• Part Two: Sectarianism: The Shia/Sunni Conflict in Pakistan
• 3. Sectarianism as a Substitute identity: Sunnis and Shias in Central and South Punjab

• 4. The Sunni-Shia Conflict in Jhang (Pakistan)
• 5. The SSP: Herald of Militant Sunni Islam in Pakistan
• Part Three: Talibanisation And Jihad in The Pashtun Belt And The Punjab
• 6. Salafism in Pakistan: The Ahl-e Hadith Movement
• 7. Kashars Against Mashars: Jihad and Social Change in the FATA
• 8. Pashtun and Punjabi Taliban: The Jihadi-Sectarian Nexus
• Part Four: Transnational Jihadi-Sunni Sectarian Convergences
• 9. 'It's just a Sunni-Shia thing': Sectarianism and Talibanism in the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) of Pakistan
• 10. Connections and Dynamics
• Notes

• Select Bibliography
• Index

• Chapter 1. Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists
• Chapter 2. Radical Sheik
• Chapter 3. Thoroughly Modern Mujahedin
• Chapter 4. Liberal Islam versus Revolutionary Islamism
• Chapter 5. Uncle Sam versus Uncle Usama
• Chapter 6. Predicting the Next Attacks.
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Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world-many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom-why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? These questions may seem counterintuitive, in light of the death and devastation that terrorists have wrought around the world. But the scale of violence, outside of civil war zones, has been far lower than the waves of attacks that the world feared in the wake of 9/11. Terrorists' own publications complain about Muslims' failure to join their cause. The Missing Martyrs draws on government sources and revolutionary publications, public opinion surveys and election results, historical documents and in-depth interviews with Muslims in the Middle East and around the world to examine barriers to terrorist recruitment, including liberal Islam, revolutionary rivalries, and an inelastic demand for U.S. foreign policy. This revised edition, updated to include the self-proclaimed "Islamic State, " concludes that fear of terrorism should be brought into alignment with the actual level of threat, and that government policies and public opinion should be based on evidence rather than alarmist hyperbole.
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• 1. Genealogical socialization
• 2. Pyramidal socialization
• 3. Immunological socialization
• 4. Filtered socialization
• 5. Imaginary socialization
• 6. Postmodern socialization
• Conclusion

Salafism is a fundamentalist Sunni vision of Islam that is growing in popularity in many countries. In this book, Mohamed-Ali Adraoui focuses on quietist Salafism, which he calls a study in contradictions. Strongly opposed to political action, terrorism, and the overthrow of established regimes, quietist Salafism insists on restructuring Islamic norms with the fervor of a revivalist and fundamentalist ethic. Quietist Salafis seek the purification of culture and religious renewal through a "de-militantization" of the Islamic corpus. Adraoui explores the Salafis' individual trajectories, their relationship with politics, and their vision of the world and of modernity, in order to understand how quietist Salafis negotiate their social identities and religious obligations in the Western context. What does the increasing presence of Islamic movements in the global space mean? Adraoui draws parallels between the French case and that of Muslim countries, and argues that the spread of quietist Salafism is partially a result of the foreign policy of Saudi Arabia. Quietist Salafism, he argues, is resonant of Saudi Arabia's efforts to promote a legitimist, anti-anarchist, and counter-revolutionary conception of Islam, after having long legitimized and reinforced the Islamist forces and Jihadist movements when it was in its geopolitical interests to do so. Salafism Goes Global sheds light on a dynamic of globalization that is taking place in the margins.
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• The penetration of Iraq's religious landscape 1979-1989
• Saddam takes control
• Co-opting and coercing religion in Saddam's Iraq
• Co-opting and coercing Shi'ism
• Suppressing the Islamist opposition
• Addressing the limits of coercion and co-optation
• The Gulf War and its aftermath 1990-1993
• Continuity and change in the Gulf War
• Iraq's religious landscape in the wake of the Gulf War
• The faith campaign 1993-2003
• A transformed religious landscape
• The regime and the Shi'is in the 1990s
• Mechanisms of control
• Putting the system to work
• The invasion of Iraq : war and the emergence of religious insurgencies
• American misconceptions about Iraq and the 2003 invasion
• Emergence of religious insurgencies in Iraq
• Conclusion : Saddam the counter-insurgent and other reflections on ruling Iraq.

Samuel Helfont draws on extensive research with Ba'thist archives to investigate the roots of the religious insurgencies that erupted in Iraq following the American-led invasion in 2003. In looking at Saddam Hussein's policies in the 1990s, many have interpreted his support for state-sponsored religion as evidence of a dramatic shift away from Arab nationalism toward political Islam. While Islam did play a greater role in the regime's symbols and Saddam's statements in the 1990s than it had in earlier decades, the regime's internal documents challenge this theory. The "Faith Campaign" Saddam launched during this period was the culmination of a plan to use religion for political ends, begun upon his assumption of the Iraqi presidency in 1979. At this time, Saddam began constructing the institutional capacity to control and monitor Iraqi religious institutions. The resulting authoritarian structures allowed him to employ Islamic symbols and rhetoric in public policy, but in a controlled manner. Saddam ultimately promoted a Ba'thist interpretation of religion that subordinated it to Arab nationalism, rather than depicting it as an independent or primary political identity. The point of this examination of Iraqi history, other than to correct the current understanding of Saddam Hussein's political use of religion throughout his presidency, is to examine how Saddam's controlled use of religion was dismantled during the US-Iraq war, and consequently set free extremists that were suppressed under his regime. When the American-led invasion destroyed the regime's authoritarian structures, it unwittingly unhinged the forces that these structures were designed to contain, creating an atmosphere infused with religion, but lacking the checks provided by the former regime. Groups such as the Sadrists, al-Qaida, and eventually the Islamic State emerged out of this context to unleash the insurgencies that have plagued post-2003 Iraq.
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• Arabic thought in the liberal cage / Hussein Omar
• Corrupting politics / Nadia Bou Ali
• Illiberal Islam / Faisal Devji
• Postcolonial prophets: Islam in the liberal academy / Neguin Yavari
• A new deal between mankind and its gods / Abdennour Bidar
• The dissonant politics of religion, circulation, and civility in the sociology of Islam / Armando Salvatore
• Islamic democracy by numbers / Zaheer Kazmir
• Bourgeois Islam and Muslims without Mosques / Carool Kersten
• Islamic secularism and the question of freedom / Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
• Militancy, monarchy and the struggle to desacralise kingship in Arabia / Ahmed Dailami
• Islamotopia: revival, reform, and American exceptionalism / Michael Muhammad Knight
• Preliminary thoughts on art and society / Sadia Abbas
• The political meanings of Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam / Edward E. Curtis IV
• Post-Islamism as neoliberalism / Peter Mandaville.

• Introduction
• Path one. Double negation: Isma'ili apophaticism
• Path two. Necessarily dissimilar: philosophical apophaticism
• Path three. "Yes and no": paradoxical apophaticism and dialectical logic
• Path four. Against discourse: Amodal apophaticism
• Conclusion
• Bibliography

What cannot be said about God, and how can we speak about God by negating what we say? Traveling across prominent negators, denialists, ineffectualists, paradoxographers, naysayers, ignorance-pretenders, unknowers, I-don't-knowers, and taciturns, Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam delves into the negative theological movements that flourished in the first seven centuries of Islam. Aydogan Kars argues that there were multiple, and often competing, strategies for self-negating speech in the vast field of theology. By focusing on Arabic and Persian textual sources, the book defines four distinct yet interconnected paths of negative speech formations on the nature of God that circulated in medieval Islamic world. Expanding its scope to Jewish intellectuals, Unsaying God also demonstrates that religious boundaries were easily transgressed as scholars from diverse sectarian or religious backgrounds could adopt similar paths of negative speech on God. This is the first book-length study of negative theology in Islam. It encompasses many fields of scholarship, and diverse intellectual schools and figures. Throughout, Kars demonstrates how seemingly different genres should be read in a more connected way in light of the cultural and intellectual history of Islam rather than as different opposing sets of orthodoxies and heterodoxies.
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• Introduction
• 1. Criticising religion
• 2. Ambivalent religiosity
• 3. Criticising religion on Twitter
• 4. Religious disengagements
• 5. Backlash: Takfir campaigns
• 6. Evolution of Saudi religion.

In recent years, an internal debate has arisen in Saudi Arabia on the legitimacy of Saudi religion and the foundations of Islam. Sparked by concerns such as the absence of divine intervention in the Syrian civil war, the question of the Muslim monopoly on heaven, and politically subversive differentiations between "Saudi religion" and Islam, the challenge within Saudi Arabia to religious orthodoxy has never been greater. Tweeted Heresies explores the emergence of these patterns of non-belief and the responses to them from the Salafi-Wahhabi religious institutions. Previous studies have focused on formal institutions and their role in religious change. Abdullah Hamidaddin focuses on individuals who took advantage of social media during a period of relative freedom of expression to criticize religion and question the most fundamental aspects of Saudi society: its politics, religion, social justice, gender and sexual relations, and the future of the country. These individuals mounted a direct challenge to religious orthodoxy, whether through calls for religious reform or, even more provocatively, debates over concepts of deity, morality, and duty to Allah. For the foreseeable future criticism is limited to virtual spaces, and the conversation was especially active on Twitter. Tweeted Heresies examines a large body of tweets, as well as interviews with Saudis about how their understanding and critique of religion have developed over the course of their lives. The result is a uniquely revealing portrait of an otherwise hidden current of religious change that promises to ultimately transform Saudi society.
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• Introduction Chapter One: Defining Salafism: Contexts and Currents Chapter Two: Ambiguities of Salafism in Mauritania: The State, Clerics and Violence Chapter Three: The Paradoxical Mutations of Salafism in Morocco Chapter Four: The Fragmentation of Salafism in Algeria Chapter Five: Managing Salafism: Tunisia's Post-Revolutionary Dilemma Chapter Six: Exploiting Chaos in Libya: The "Madkhalis" Rise from the Salafi Firmament Conclusion.
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The Arab Maghreb-the long stretch of North Africa that expands from Libya to Mauritania-is a vitally important region that impacts the security and politics of Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and the broader Middle East. As Middle East scholars Frederic Wehrey and Anouar Boukhars show in Salafism in the Maghreb, it is also home to the conservative, literalist interpretation of Islam known as Salafism, which has emerged as a major social and political force. Through extensive interviews and fieldwork, Wehrey and Boukhars examine the many roles and manifestations of Salafism in the Maghreb, looking at the relationship between Salafism and the Maghreb's ruling regimes, as well as competing Islamist currents, increasingly youthful populations, and communal groups like tribes and ethno-linguistic minorities. They pay particular attention to how seemingly immutable Salafi ideology is often shaped by local contexts and opportunities. Informed by rigorous research, deep empathy, and unparalleled access to Salafi adherents, clerics, politicians, and militants, Salafism in the Maghreb offers a definitive account of this important Islamist current.
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• Part 1. Al-Qaeda after the Arab Spring: The noble knight dismounted, Ayman al-Zawahiri, May 2011
• Message of hope and glad tidings to our people in Egypt, part 8, Ayman al-Zawahiri, December 2011
• Support for Islam document, Ayman al-Zawahiri, August 2012
• General guidelines for the work of Jihad, Ayman al-Zawahiri, September 2013
• Scent of Paradise : a study on the most honourable sacrifices of worshippers; Death and martyrdom campaigns (2nd edn), Ayman al-Zawahiri, November 2013
• Emancipation from the cycle of failure and frivolity, Ayman al-Zawahiri, February 2014
• pt. 2 Al-Qaeda and the Syrian Fitna: The seventh interview with Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri: reality between pain and hope, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Al-Sahab, May 2014
• Testimony to preserve the blood of the Mujahidin in Al-Sham, Ayman al-Zawahiri, May 2014
• pt. 3 Al-Qaeda adn the "Islamic State": Friday prayers and sermon in the Grand Mosque of Mosul, The "Islamic State", featuring Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, presented as "Caliph Ibrahim", July 2014
• Indeed, your Lord is ever watchful, Sheikh Abu Mohamed Al-Adnani Ash-Shami, spokesman for the Islamic State, September 2014
• Support your Prophet, peace and blessings be upon Him, Ayman al-Zawahiri, March 2015
• The Islamic Spring, Part 1-6, Ayman al-Zawahiri, September 2015
• Let us unite to liberate al-Quds [Jerusalem], Ayman al-Zawahiri, November 2015
• Sham [Syria] is entrusted upon your shoulders, Ayman al-Zawahiri, December 2015
• March forth to Sham [Syria]!, Ayman al-Zawahiri, May 2016
• We shall fulfil our pledge, Ayman al-Zawahiri, June 2016.

Almost thirty years after its foundation, Lebanese Hezbollah remains an organization difficult to understand. An Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national Resistance to have ever defeated Tel-Aviv's troops, a patriotic and respectable party or a fascist network having managed to control all levers of Lebanese political life...what exactly is Hezbollah? How did it acquire such an important role in the Middle-Eastern game and in Lebanese politics? This book has three purposes. It first gives an articulated definition of Hezbollah, presenting a thorough history of the party, describing its well-built internal structure, and the large scope of its social and political action. It then explains the evolution of the party's mobilization. Finally, it illustrates another path, political but mainly identity-related, that of the Shiite community, today the main constituent of Lebanese society. Through a rigorous and richly documented study, mainly based on primary sources, amongst which hundreds of interviews with rank and file members, executives and officials of the party, and research material never examined before, the author unveils brand new aspects of this organization, thus completing, in a clear and efficient manner, our understanding of both the "Hezbollah phenomenon" and Lebanese politics of the last two decades.
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• Introduction / Olivier Roy
• Iraqi tribes in the land of jihad / Hosham Dawod
• Kto Kovo? Tribes and jihad in Pushtun lands / Mike Martin
• Tribes and political Islam in the borderland between Egypt and Libya: a (trans-)local perspective / Thomas Hüsken
• Sufi jihad and Salafi jihadism in Egypt's Sinai: tribal generational conflict / Ismail Alexandrani
• The global and the local: Al-Qaeda and Yemen's tribes / Marieke Brandt
• Between the 'Kanuri' and others: giving a face to a jihad with neither borders nor tribes in the Lake Chad Basin / Claude Mbowou
• Sirte's tribes under the Islamic State: from civil war to global jihadism / Virginie Collombier
• Conclusion / Virginie Collombier.

• Sleeping beauty
• The perfect victim
• Laws of uncertainty
• Arabian knights
• GWOT
• Insulting the prophet
• In the bellies of green birds

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Diversities and Minorities
• 3. The Tropes of Jewish/Muslim Difference
• 4. Un/settled Relations
• 5. Terror, Race, Security
• 6. Conclusion.

Jews and Muslims in South Asia examines how Jews and Muslims relate to each other in a place where, in contrast to Europe, their perceived attitudes towards one another do not often make headlines. In the European imagination, Jews and Muslims have both been seen as the ultimate "other." At the same time, Western politics and media construct Jews and Muslims in opposition to each other and see their relationship as unavoidably polarized due to the conflict in the Middle East. In this book, Yulia Egorova explores how South Asian Jews and Muslims relate to each other outside of a Western and Christian context, and reveals that despite some important differences this relationship is still intrinsically connected to global narratives about Jews and Muslims. She also shows that the Hindu right have turned South Asian Jewish experiences into a rhetorical tool to deny the existence of discrimination against religious minorities, and that this ostensible celebration of Jewishness masks not only anti-Muslim, but also anti-Jewish prejudice. She argues that South Asia inherited these notions of racial and religious difference from the British during the colonial period, which continue to cause stigmatization and oppression to this day. Jews and Muslims in South Asia is a fascinating new contribution to the academic discussion on anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and their overlapping histories.
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• Introduction
• Part 1: Mujahedeen and Topakiyaan (1979-1994): The taliban fronts
• Desert attack
• Miracles of the jihad
• Soviet Andrei
• Martyr Hajji mullah Mohammad Osman Akhund
• The men with guns
• Part 2: islamic emirate of Afghanistan (1994-2001): Nascent state (1994-1996)
• Beginning government (1996-1998)
• Isolation and retrenchment (1998-2001)
• Part 3: Insurgency (2001- ): Shock and awe (2001-2003)
• Expansion & revival (2004-2010)
• New realities (2011-2017)
• Notes
• Glossary
• Further reading
• Acknowledgements
• Index.

• Linking identity politics and foreign policy : an inside-out theory of identity contestation
• National identities in Turkey : four competing proposals
• Forging a nation from within : republican nationalism's fight for hegemony at home
• Stuck inside : obstacles to Ottoman Islamism at home
• Ottoman Islamism inside out : identity contestation through EU-based foreign policy
• Taking the theory outside : state and non-state actors use of inside-out identity contestation.

The trajectory of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's time in office offers an ideal, empirical window into puzzling shifts in Turkey's domestic politics and foreign policy that do not correspond to usual shifts in geopolitical dynamics, international economic conditions, or the coming to power of a new party or leader. In Identity Politics Inside Out, Lisel Hintz teases out the complex link between identity politics and foreign policy in Turkey. Rather than treating national identity as cause or consequence of a state's foreign policy, she repositions foreign policy as an arena, alternative to domestic politics, in which contestation among competing proposals for national identity takes place. Using intertextual analysis, she extracts competing elements in Turkey's identity from a wide array of pop culture and social media sources, interviews, surveys, and archives examined through 18 months of fieldwork to theorize when and how internal identity politics becomes externalized. Hintz traces the evolution of Turkish national identity from the wake of the Ottoman collapse and its effects; to the attempts of the Islamist Welfare Party (RP) to spread Ottoman Islamism in Turkey's public sphere; to shift the country's foreign policy away from the West and toward the Middle East. With a unique framework developed through an in-depth study of Turkey, Identity Politics Inside Out analytically links the "inside out" spillover of national identity debates into foreign policy and fills a gap in existing scholarship by closing the identity-foreign policy circle.
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