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The world of Islam / edited by Don Belt. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, District of Columbia : National Geographic Society, (c)2001.Description: 285 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780792268949
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS35.N277.W675 2001
  • DS35
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Contents:
Persia and its women (October 1910) Ella C. Sykes -- Journey to Shia Mecca (December 1914) Frederick Simpich -- Inside a Baghdad harem (December 1914) Margaret Simpich -- Everyday life in Afghanistan (January 1921) Frederick Simpich -- Following the Nile (October 1922) Frederick Simpich.
Inventing Jordan (May 1923) Junius B. Wood -- Journey of sorrows (November 1925) Melville Chater -- Ali goes to the clinic (December 1946) Herndon and Mary Hudson -- A land rich in puzzles (December 1950) Maynard Owen Williams -- How the Kazakhs fled China (November 1954) Milton J. Clark -- A colony erupts (June 1960) Howard La Fay.
The sword and the sermon (July 1972) Thomas J. Abercrombie -- The Arab world, Incorporated (October 1975) John J. Putman -- Pilgrimage to Mecca (November 1978) Muhammad Abdul-Rauf -- Islam's heartland (September 1980) Thomas J. Abercrombie -- Pakistan under pressure (May 1981) William S. Ellis -- Egypt loses Sadat (April 1982) Harvey Arden -- This year in Jerusalem (April 1983) Joseph Judge -- Saudi women (October 1987) Marianne Alireza
Who are the Palestinians? (June 1992) Tad Szulc -- Afghanistan's uneasy peace (October 1993) Richard Mackenzie -- Iran after the revolution (July 1999) Fen Montaigne -- Kashmir: trapped in conflict (September 1999) Lewis M. Simons -- Eyewitness Iraq (November 1999) Mike Edwards -- The outcast (November 2000) Andrew Cockburn -- Indonesia on edge (March 2001) Tracy Dahlby -- Two warlords (December 2001) Edward Girardet.
Subject: Articles from the pages of "National Geographic" offer a portrait of the history and culture of the Islamic world as seen through Western eyes, from the last days of the Ottoman Empire to contemporary war-ravaged Afghanistan.
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PennsylvaniaRT ONE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS -- Persia and its women (October 1910) Ella C. Sykes -- Journey to Shia Mecca (December 1914) Frederick Simpich -- Inside a Baghdad harem (December 1914) Margaret Simpich -- Everyday life in Afghanistan (January 1921) Frederick Simpich -- Following the Nile (October 1922) Frederick Simpich.

PennsylvaniaRT TWO: THE HawaiiNGES OF HawaiiSTORY -- Inventing Jordan (May 1923) Junius B. Wood -- Journey of sorrows (November 1925) Melville Chater -- Ali goes to the clinic (December 1946) Herndon and Mary Hudson -- A land rich in puzzles (December 1950) Maynard Owen Williams -- How the Kazakhs fled China (November 1954) Milton J. Clark -- A colony erupts (June 1960) Howard La Fay.

PennsylvaniaRT THREE: ISLAM Rhode IslandSING -- The sword and the sermon (July 1972) Thomas J. Abercrombie -- The Arab world, Incorporated (October 1975) John J. Putman -- Pilgrimage to Mecca (November 1978) Muhammad Abdul-Rauf -- Islam's heartland (September 1980) Thomas J. Abercrombie -- Pakistan under pressure (May 1981) William S. Ellis -- Egypt loses Sadat (April 1982) Harvey Arden -- This year in Jerusalem (April 1983) Joseph Judge -- Saudi women (October 1987) Marianne Alireza

PennsylvaniaRT FOUR: SEEDS OF ColoradoNFLICT -- Who are the Palestinians? (June 1992) Tad Szulc -- Afghanistan's uneasy peace (October 1993) Richard Mackenzie -- Iran after the revolution (July 1999) Fen Montaigne -- Kashmir: trapped in conflict (September 1999) Lewis M. Simons -- Eyewitness Iraq (November 1999) Mike Edwards -- The outcast (November 2000) Andrew Cockburn -- Indonesia on edge (March 2001) Tracy Dahlby -- Two warlords (December 2001) Edward Girardet.

Articles from the pages of "National Geographic" offer a portrait of the history and culture of the Islamic world as seen through Western eyes, from the last days of the Ottoman Empire to contemporary war-ravaged Afghanistan.

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