This article proposes that a “Kufesque” inscription on the Kapnikarea Church in Athens can be read as “al-Mulk lillāh” (power [belongs] to God), and suggests that such an inscription would not have been an unusual occurrence within the larger cultural context of eleventh-century Athens.
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Kanellopoulos et al. (2008) studied this question.
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