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Abu Dulaf
Abu Dulaf al-Qasim ibn Isa was an Arab general and poet of the Banu Ijl who served the Abbasid caliphs Harun al-Rashid and al-Ma'mun. Around 825 he founded the city of Karaj in the Jibal region of western Iran, which became the seat of his family, the Dulafids, who governed the Jibal as hereditary governors for most of the 9th century.
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