Verses from the Koran appear and fade on body 9-month-old, believers say.

Image: A pilgrim shows off the leg of baby Ali Yakubov at his house in Kizlyar in Russia’s Dagestan. (MSNBC)

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updated 4:01 a.m. ET Oct. 22, 2009

KIZLYAR, Russia – A “miracle” baby has brought a kind of mystical hope to people in Russia’s mostly Muslim southern fringe who are increasingly desperate in the face of Islamist violence.

From hunchbacked grandmas to schoolboys, hundreds of pilgrims lined up this week in blazing sunshine to get a glimpse of 9-month-old baby Ali Yakubov, on whose body they say verses from the Koran appear and fade every few days.

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