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IN THE LAND OF INVISIBLE WOMEN: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, (2008). First edition - When she was denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, accepted a position in Saudi Arabia. She saw this as more than a new job, but also a chance at adventure in an exotic land she thinks she understands, a place she hopes she will belong. Instead she discovers that The Kingdom is a world apart - she finds rejection and scorn in the places she believed would most embrace her, but also humor, honesty, loyalty and love - and she finds a life-changing pilgrimage back to her Muslim faith. Endnotes. ix, 444 pp plus a reading group guide.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79367More details Price: $18.00 -
AMERICAN DERVISH.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming-of-age novel by this Pulitzer prize winning playwright, set in the American Midwest, which focuses on the forces affecting young Muslims growing up in the US. 352 pp. ISBN: 978-0316183314.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64713More details Price: $18.00 -
TORN BETWEEN TWO CULTURES: An Afghan-American Woman Speaks Out.
Edition: First printing.
Sterling, VA: Capitol Books, Inc. 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - An interesting look at Afghanistan and the Muslim culture by a woman born in the United States to first generation Afghan immigrants, and who, because of the closeness of her family and the size of the refugee community, continues to feel close to her Afghan heritage, even while growing up in America. Photographs. Index. 191 pp. ISBN: 1-931865-360.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 25895More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BOOK OF JONAS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Blue Rider Press / Penguin, (2012). First edition - The author's first novel, about a young Muslim boy whose family is killed in a military operation gone wrong and his struggles to adapt to life in the US. 256 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (some soiling to the edge of the textblock).
Book ID: 59614More details Price: $17.50 -
THE STORY OF SWAT As Told by the Founder Miangul Abdul Wadud Badshah Sahib to Muhammud Asif Khan.
Edition: Hardcover.
Condition: Very good in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decoration on front board, in a good only dust jacket with significant rubbing and edgewear.
Book ID: 69930More details Price: $45.00 -
ARCHITECTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD: Its History and Social Meaning.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A panoramic survey of the entire field of Islamic architecture, from mosques to markets, from citadels to cemeteries, with the emphasis upon function and meaning rather than upon chronology and style. . . The book concludes with a comprehensive inventory of the key buildings of the Islamic world - 250 examples divided geographically." Texts by Ernst J Grube, James Dickie, Oleg Grabar, Eleanor Sims, Ronald Lewcock, Dalu Jones, Guy T Peterbridge. 758 illustrations, 112 in full color. Double-page map of the Islamic heartlands showing the main trade and hajj routes, glossary, bibliography, index, illustrated end-papers. Large format. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-688-033245.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. Errata slip laid in.
Book ID: 50532More details Price: $60.00 -
AN UNRESTORED WOMAN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Flatiron Books, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a collection of twelve paired stories, which are rooted in the 1947 partition between India and Pakistan, a time when nearly a million immigrants were killed, and tens of thousands of women were abducted and brutalized. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Author's note. Glossary. 242 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated black wrappers.
Book ID: 67316More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY OF RELIGION (original: The Biology of Religion.)
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. A completely revised and updated version of the 1983 book, 'The Biology of Religion.' Reveals how religions in all parts of the world meets the needs of ordinary people - includes discussion of such topics as sex in and out of marriage, circumsion, sickness, faith, divorce and widowhood, birth and childhood, and the challenges of modernity. Map, illustrations, notes, index. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5069749.
Condition: Fine (a new copy)
Book ID: 26429More details Price: $12.00