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Serving as arbiters among the "secular," acephalous tribes, where power is by nature unstable, and as mediators with universal Islam, the city, and the Prince, as descendants of the Prophet and “incarnate Word,” that is, carriers of the uncreated Word of God, the Qur’an.

— Fanny Colonna

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