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Heavy metal Islam
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Mark LeVine |
"We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal."--Reda Zine, one of the founders of the Moroccan heavy-metal scene"Music is the weapon of the future."--Fela KutiAn eighteen-year-old Moroccan … |
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From the Sahara to Samarkand
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Rosita Forbes |
It is somewhat ironical that Rosita Forbes is proudly and reproachfully informed by a daughter of the Hadramauti in Madi, that “I was born in this room [of the harem] and I have never left it! Women … |
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Religions of the ancient near East
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Daniel C. Snell |
"This book is a history of religious life in the Ancient Near East from the beginnings of agriculture to Alexander the Great's invasion in the 300s BCE"--
"This book is a history of religious life i… |
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
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Gerard Russell |
Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucife… |
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Divine substitution
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Stephen L. Herring |
Divine Substitution is an investigation of ancient conceptualizations of divine presence. Specifically, this thesis investigates the possibility that the ancient Mesopotamian conceptualization of cul… |
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Harlots of the Desert
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Benedicta Ward |
Stories of conversion have always attracted mankind's attention, and this was especially so among the monks of the ancient and medieval world. In the literature of fourth-century Egypt, alongside the… |
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