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Brewing Controversy: How Coffee Sparked Fierce Debate in the 16th-Century

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A bitter new drink swept through the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in the early 1500s – and ignited one of the fiercest religious debates of the late-medieval Islamic world.
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Brewing Controversy: How Coffee Sparked Fierce Debate in the 16th-Century

A bitter new drink swept through the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in the early 1500s – and ignited one of the fiercest religious debates of the late-medieval Islamic world.

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