Mosques


Pris: 262,-	Meier, Sandy Prita Swahili Port Cities (025301915X) On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this coastal environment…	Pris: 251,-	Islam In South Africa: Mosques, Imams, And Sermons (0813024854) 'Judicious juggling of insider and outsider perspectives. [Tayob] brings real knowledge and experience of South African Islam. . . . Anyone interested in religion in the South African context as well as those…
Pris: 254,-	Campbell, James W P Brick (0500343195) This totally original architecture book ? the first ever comprehensive study of brick ? follows the story of brick from 5, 000 bc to its use in building today, via the vast baths and basilicas of ancient Rome, through…	Pris: 332,-	Politics of Piety - The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject Provides an analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt.
Pris: 492,-	Uluhanli, Leyla Mosques (0847860353) Mosques are among the greatest architectural feats and have a profound beauty: their spiritual purpose adds to their mystery and lustre. This visually stunning volume illustrates the development of the basic mosque…	Pris: 288,-	Ivory Coast Ivory Coast Travel Guide - Expert travel advice on everything from Yamoussoukro and Abidjan highlights to Cote d'Ivoire culture. Also includes hotels, restaurants, tribal crafts, birdlife, twerking, chocolate, wildlife,…
Pris: 262,-	Among the Mosques - A Journey Across Muslim Britain	Pris: 297,-	Delawari, Ariana Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash,…
Pris: 130,-	Lonely Planet Pocket Abu Dhabi Lonely Planet's Pocket Abu Dhabi is your most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore one of Arabia's most magnificent mosques, the Sheikh Zayed Grand, ride the world's…	Pris: 289,-	Mahmood, Saba Politics of Piety (0691149801) Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist…
Pris: 269,-	Qaderi, Homeira Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son A People Book of the Week & a Kirkus Best Nonfiction of the Year An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression…	Pris: 200,-	Rick Steves Istanbul (Eighth Edition) - With Ephesus & Cappadocia From historic mosques to fresh seafood, this comprehensive guide reveals the crossroads where Europe meets Asia
Pris: 419,-	China'S Early Mosques	Pris: 541,-	O'Kane Bernard The Mosques of Egypt (9774167325) Less than ten years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the new religion of Islam arrived in Egypt with the army of Amr ibn al-As in AD 641. Amr immediately established his capital at al-Fustat, just south of modern…
Pris: 433,-	Stringer Martin D. Contemporary Western Ethnography and the Definition of Exploring whether the widespread activity of sitting next to a grave and talking to a deceased person is a religious act forms the basis of this book, and the author argues that it is probably much more typical of a…	Pris: 466,-	Bloom, Jonathan M. Architecture of the Islamic West (0300218702) An authoritative survey situating some of the Western world?s most renowned buildings within a millennium of Islamic history Some of the most outstanding examples of world architecture, such as the…
Pris: 174,-	Cairo Anthology Cairo has for centuries been recognized as one of the great cities of the world, and this anthology brings together travelers' descriptions of it over the centuries-from the comments of Herodotus to those of Julian…	Pris: 87,-	Mosques of the World Activity Book
Pris: 332,-	100 Churches 100 Years This book features 100 churches built since 1914, showing the development of modern church architecture in Britain. From Spence's Coventry Cathedral to Giles Gilbert Scott's Liverpool Cathedral and featuring churches,…	Pris: 340,-	Khaghani Saeid Islamic Architecture in Iran (1788310454) The architecture of the Islamic world is predominantly considered in terms of a dual division between 'tradition' and 'modernity' - a division which, Saeid Khaghani here argues, has shaped and limited the narrative…
Pris: 130,-	The Golden Legend SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018For weeks, someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minarets of the city's mosques, striking fear into the hearts of Christians and Muslims alike.	Pris: 305,-	Brick - A World History A architecture book that follows the story of brick from 5, 000 bc to its use in building today, via the vast baths and basilicas of ancient Rome, through the wonders of Gothic brick in Germany, the majestic temples of…
Pris: 174,-	At the Mosque Have you ever visited a mandir or a mosque? Eaten at a gurdwara or sung hymns at a church? This series will take you through places of worship, showing you what goes on and teaching you about different practices and…	Pris: 375,-	Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation Kyle Conway's textual analysis and in-depth research, including interviews from the show's creator, executive producers, writers, and CBC executives, reveals the many ways Muslims have and have not been integrated into…
Pris: 434,-	Swelim Tarek Ibn Tulun (9774166914) Ahmad ibn Tulun (835-84), the son of a Turkic slave in the Abbasid court of Baghdad, became the founder of the first independent state in Egypt since antiquity, and builder of Egypt's short-lived third capital of the…	Pris: 157,-	The Siege of Mecca - The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest 20 November, 1979: as morning prayers began, hundreds of hardline Islamist gunmen, armed with rifles smuggled in coffins, stormed the Grand Mosque in Mecca. This work takes us through one of the momentous events in…
Pris: 174,-	At the Church Have you ever visited a mandir or a mosque? Eaten at a gurdwara or sung hymns at a church? This series will take you through places of worship, showing you what goes on and teaching you about different practices and…	Pris: 955,-	Alloul, Houssine To Kill a Sultan (1349696153) This book explores an event described by the Times as 'one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times'. On 21 July 1905, just after the Friday Prayer at the Yildiz Hamidiye Mosque…
Pris: 174,-	We Worship Here: Muslim Mosque Explores places of worship to gain an insight into the beliefs and practices of the major world religions	Pris: 332,-	The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque - Christians and Muslims in the World of Who were the Christians in the Arabic-speaking milieu of Mohammed and the Qur'an? This title presents a discussion in English of the cultural and intellectual life of such Christians indigenous to the Islamic…
Pris: 179,-	Syria Mosque 1970	Pris: 876,-	Pieri, Z. Tablighi Jamaat and the Quest for the London Mega Mosque The book charts the attempts of Islam's largest missionary movement, the Tablighi Jamaat, to build Europe's largest mosque in London. Key themes include how Islamic movements engage and adapt within liberal democracies…
Pris: 113,-	In My Mosque	Pris: 174,-	At the Mandir Have you ever visited a mandir or a mosque? Eaten at a gurdwara or sung hymns at a church? This series will take you through places of worship, showing you what goes on and teaching you about different practices and…
Pris: 316,-	Griffith, Sidney H. The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque (0691146284) Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a 'Christian-Muslim divide'--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for…	Pris: 174,-	At the Temple Have you ever visited a mandir or a mosque? Eaten at a gurdwara or sung hymns at a church? This series will take you through places of worship, showing you what goes on and teaching you about different practices and…
Pris: 383,-	Ak?amija, Azra Architecture of Coexistence: Building Pluralism Architecture of Coexistence: Building Pluralism This book investigates how architecture can shape an open-minded and inclusive society, highlighting three internationally renowned projects: the White Mosque in Visoko,…	Pris: 157,-	Dancing in the Mosque - An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Pris: 174,-	Cycling to the Ashes One man, one bike, two Mongoose cricket bats, one tropical disease, 16, 000 miles and a lot of dead kangaroos. Oli Broom loves cricket. So much so that in 2009 he left his 9 to 5 in London and set off to cycle to…	Pris: 349,-	Syria Mosque 1970
Pris: 174,-	At the Gurdwara Have you ever visited a mandir or a mosque? Eaten at a gurdwara or sung hymns at a church? This series will take you through places of worship, showing you what goes on and teaching you about different practices and…	Pris: 174,-	At the Synagogue Have you ever visited a mandir or a mosque? Eaten at a gurdwara or sung hymns at a church? This series will take you through places of worship, showing you what goes on and teaching you about different practices and…
Pris: 286,-	al-Huzaimi, Nasir The Mecca Uprising (0755600118) On 20th November 1979, the Salafi Group, led by a charismatic figure named Juhaiman al-Utaibi, seized control of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in the Muslim World. The Salafi Group was not trying to…	Pris: 130,-	The House of the Mosque A sweeping, compelling story which brings to life the Iranian Revolution, from an author who experienced it first-hand