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The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda

The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda

by Yaroslav Trofimov

On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week. The same morning—the first of a new Muslim century—hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam’s holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Armed with rifles that they had smuggled inside coffins, these men came from more than a dozen countries, launching the first operation of... (more)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Anita J. Aboulafia, Malcolm X, Alex Haley

If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the crucial truth about our times. "Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book." TEH NEW YORKTIMES

Noble Qur'an

interpretation of the meanings of the Noble Qur'an (word of God) with Arabic text in the modern English language. A summarized version of At-Tabari, Al-Qurtubi, and Ibn Kathir with comments from Sahih Al-Bukhari.

The Mecca DiariesRayda Jacobs

The Mecca Diaries

by Rayda Jacobs

'Writing this now, on a borrowed laptop, in my hotel room four minutes from the haram, my eyes are filled with tears. How have I been so fortunate as to come here?' What is it really like to go on hajj? What is the truth about this high point in a Muslim's religious experience - in a far-away Middle-Eastern country, at the holiest sites of the Islamic religion - and in the presence of nearly three million other... (more)

The Dark Before The Light At Dawn

by Vannessagrace

This book is riveting! You can actually imagine the settings, the moods, the expressions, and the depth of each character and situation. The characters are believable—you feel what they feel. The women in this book show great strength, each having their story of struggle and misfortune yet they maintain a great presence. It takes love for each of them to admit to past hurts and that same love... (more)

The Ka'bah, Rhythms of Culture, Faith and Physiology

The Ka'bah, Rhythms of Culture, Faith and Physiology

by Beverly White Spicer

Spiritual practices focusing on Islam's Ka'bah in Mecca are not merely arbitrary psychological construction but in fact, there is a strong physiological basis to spirituality. Highly symbolic architecture, such as the Ka'Bah serves as a vital and centering sacred link in the process of maintaining a relationship grounded in new physiology between human beings and the cosmos as in Eliade's homology of... (more)

The Collector of Worlds: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton

The Collector of Worlds: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton

by Ilija Trojanow

A stunning fictionalized account of the infamous life of British colonial officer and translator Sir Richard Francis Burton This fictionalized account imagines the life of Sir Richard Francis Burton—a nineteenth-century British colonial officer with a rare ability to assimilate into indigenous cultures. Burton's obsessive traveling took him from England to British India, Arabia, and on a quest for the source... (more)

The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest ShrineYaroslav Trofimov

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The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda

by Yaroslav Trofimov

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Anita J. Aboulafia, Malcolm X, Alex Haley

Noble Qur'an

The Mecca Diaries

by Rayda Jacobs

The Dark Before The Light At Dawn

by Vannessagrace

The Ka'bah, Rhythms of Culture, Faith and Physiology

by Beverly White Spicer

The Collector of Worlds: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton

by Ilija Trojanow

The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine

by Yaroslav Trofimov