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Pages: 243
Authors: Mary C. Neuburger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Bulgaria is a Slavic nation, Orthodox in faith but with a sizable Muslim minority. That minority is divided into various ethnic groups, including the most numer
The Orient in Spain
Language: en
Pages: 487
Authors: Mercedes Garcia-Arenal Rodriquez
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-15 - Publisher: BRILL

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Taking as its main subject a series of notorious forgeries by Muslim converts in sixteenth-century Granada (including an apocryphal gospel in Arabic), this book
The Orient in a Mirror
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Sabrina Michaud
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-01 - Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

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Using the mirror as their motif, the Michauds pair traditional Islamic art miniatures, some of which date back several centuries, with their own photographs of
Orientalism
Language: en
Pages: 434
Authors: Edward W. Said
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-01 - Publisher: Vintage

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A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of
In Search of the Lost Orient
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Olivier Roy
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-26 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Olivier Roy is one of the world's leading experts on political Islam. But he is not only a scholar—he is also a traveler. Roy's keen and iconoclastic insights