The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (941 page)

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Har
m
(things prohibited in Islam)
:
see ALHALAL WA’L-HAR
M.
Harapp
.
Archaeological site and modern name of a city of the
Indus Valley civilization
, on the left bank of the R
v
River in the Pañj
b, in what is now Pakistan. Harapp
was the first of two major Indus Valley cities to be discovered by archaeologists; hence the Indus Valley civilization is designated the ‘Harapp
culture’. The site of Harapp
was first excavated, 1924–1931, and again after the Second World War.

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