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First Jihad Khartoum, and the Dawn of Militant Islam
ISBN: PB: 9781612005935, Casemate, February 2018
256 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 pages of black&white illus.
The First Jihad tells the story of Muhammad Ahmad, a Muslim religious leader in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and the uprising he led against British and Egyptian forces in the late nineteenth century. In 1881, Ahmad declared himself the Mahdi – the "Expec...
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£9,00
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Faith in Conflict The Impact of the Great War on the Faith of the People of Britain
ISBN: HB: 9781911512677, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos
It may seem obvious that the Great War, with its immense cost in terms of lives lost and injuries of body and mind incurred, must have had a significant impact on the religious faith of the British people. There is much anecdotal evidence to support...
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£35,00
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Project Eagle The American Christians of North Korea in World War II
ISBN: HB: 9781612348698, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2017
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Robert S. Kim contributes to a fuller understanding of Asia in World War II by revealing the role of American Christian missionary families in the development of the Korean independence movement and the creation of the forgotten alliance between that...
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£26,00
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Amaravati The Art of an Early Buddhist Monument in Context
ISBN: PB: 9780861592074, Casemate, British Museum Press, October 2016
152 pp., 29x21 cm, 170 illus.
Buddhism originated in north India and spread to other parts of the subcontinent in the third century BCE. The Andhra region, located along the south-east coast of India, welcomed Buddhism and a stupa, probably built to house a relic of the Buddha fr...
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£35,00
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Frank Brangwyn Stations of the Cross
ISBN: PB: 9780956713971, Casemate, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, March 2015
40 pp., 23x23 cm, 30 colour illus.
This publication – which has been made possible entirely through the generosity of Tigger Hoare – was prompted by the discovery of a complete set of Brangwyn's Stations of the Cross, painted in oil, which originally hung in St Michael's Abbey, Farnbo...
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£10,00
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Islam without a Veil Kazakhstan's Path of Moderation
ISBN: HB: 9781597977319, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2011
228 pp., 23x15 cm
Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia that has been under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbayev since independence in 1991, has proven that a mostly Muslim nation can be active on the international scene. Its leaders have wo...
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£18,00
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