Customer Review: This book has a very detailed description of the whole event. Well written in a typcial novel style, the book goes through all the happenings in a manner that keeps the reader engaged though I felt this book could be shorter and still have the same sort of impact as it does.
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Customer Review: I confess: Richard F Burton is one of my heroes. In part, it's because much of my life has been spent in his traces, from India, through the Middle East, to Baltimore and the Great Plains. He's simply a fabulous story-teller. Whether he's commenting on the sexual proclivities of the people of a... more info
Customer Review: Hamza Bogary's The Sheltered Quarter is a wonderful novel about the days before oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia. It details the life of Muhaisin AL-Baliy, a boy growing up raised only by his mother due to his father's death beofre he was born. The book tells of his trials in school with bullies... more info
Customer Review: This Volume covers the first four years after the Hicrat. Among various excurcios to neighbouring tribes or caravans the volume covers Badr and Uhud battles. Marriage of Mohammed (AS) to HZ. Aisah, conflicts with Jews in the city of Madina. Tabari uses Ibn Ishak, Ibn Hisham as his sources and time... more info
Customer Review: Patricia Crone's work is scholarly, well documented, and truly thought provoking. As any scholar worthy of the title would do, she questions the prior dogmatic assertions Muslims use today regarding Mecca as a haven for commercial trade, from which Islam was born. Rather, she searches the historical... more info
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