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In what period, and where exactly, did harira take shape as a distinct soup, given the dispute between a specifically Moroccan origin and a broader Andalusian or Maghrebi origin?

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Wikipedia's article on harira reports that food historian Gil Marks attributes its origin to Morocco, calling this claim compelling but debatable, while Algerie Poste and the Andalusi scholar Ibn Razin al-Tujibi identify harira as an authentic Maghreb dish of Andalusian origin. The article gives no date range that both accounts would support, so origin-start-year and origin-end-year are left unfilled rather than guessed from either side of the dispute.

What would resolve this A scholarly resolution of the competing Moroccan and Andalusian origin claims for harira, anchored to a specific dated text or archaeological finding rather than a named scholar's attribution alone.
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