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Paper came into use more widely at the time of the Barmecides,
in the early ninth century. However, ascribing the official
introduction of paper into government offices to the Barmecides
may be part of the legend woven around them. Cf. A. Mez, Die
Renaissance des Isldms, p. 440, and, more recently,
N. Abbott in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, VIII
(1949), 147. |