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Mavsoleia Pir-Khuseina. (Les Faiences du Mausolée de Pir-Houssein). Tbilisi: Académie des Sciences de la RSS de Géorgie.
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Construction: Khanakah Pir Husain." In Répertoire Chronologique d'Épigraphie Arabe, XIII, 45-46 (no.4865).
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sect who lived in the 11th century, existed on this site before a formal khanqah was built around it in the 13th century.
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