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Rh The above-sketched attempt to view al-Balâdhuri in his historic setting warrants the conclusion that the tradition recorded by him was mostly communicated to him by word of mouth and partly through books that have mostly been lost, and that it was a source for al-Mas‘ûdi and Yâḳût, and through them for many subsequent Arabic historians and geographers.