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What "book" is referred to in the phrase "People of the Book"?

The construction Ahl ul Kitaab (people of the book) has been used in contrast with the word Ummi. Kitaab means law in this construction. … That's why local Jews and Christian started calling Arabs as Ummi and distinguished themselves as people of the 'divine law' …
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