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  • The palm trees were set on fire, the chief of the tribe was tortured and killed, and women and children were taken as war-booty, called sabaya (slaves).

    Welcome to Islam-Watch Mumin Salih 2009

  • The meal's bookends can be muscular, too: from the soup that invariably starts it off, a lamb-marrow consommé called marag, to sabaya, a traditional dessert consisting of fifty layers of baked dough, each separated by a coat of clarified butter.

    The New Yorker Nick Paumgarten 2011

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