libya news 27 AUG Asia Times charges Al Qaeda Rebel Military Command in Tripoli (confirmed)
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The Complete Persepolis $8.00 Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips.Persepolis is the story of Satrapi’s unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing … |
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The Hidden Origins of Islam: New Research into Its Early History $17.66 The standard histories of Muhammad and the early development of Islam are based on Islamic literature that dates to the ninth and tenth centuries – some two centuries or more after the death of Muhammad in 632. Islamic literary sources do not exist for the seventh and eighth centuries, when, according to tradition, Muhammad and his immediate followers lived. All that is preserved from this time pe… |
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A History of Modern Iran $16.98 In a reappraisal of Iran’s modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis and, in 1979, revolution and the birth of the Islamic Republic. In the intervening years, the country has experienced a bitter war with Iraq, the transformation of society under the clergy and, more re… |
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