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Selected full view: The Icelandic volcano, a.k.a. Eyjafjalla Jokull, Eyjafjalla Skul, "Island Mountain Glacier", "Mountain of Islands"
Newly digitized manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection at the University of Michigan, mainly in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish and dating from the 8th to 20th century CE.
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