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The glory of Baghdad with its mosques and palaces, its temples of learning, its fragrant gardens, was reproduced.. in Basra, in Bokhara, in Granada and Cordoba. It is written of the last-named city that.. it contained more than 20,000 houses and more than a million inhabitants and that a man after sunset might walk in a straight line for ten miles along paved and illuminated streets-- yet in Europe centuries later there was not a paved street in Paris nor a public lamp in London.
(47:1)
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