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    Ahmed, Akbar S.   LIVING ISLAM. £12.00    
      From Samarkand to Stornoway.   224pp. Index. 31 illustrations in colour.   Fine in fine dw.   1994 First edition, Facts on File, New York.
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    Allen, Charles.   GOD'S TERRORISTS. £15.00    
      The Wahabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad.   349pp. Index. Mostly covers Islamic fundamentalism in 19th century India with much on the Mutiny and the Frontier.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   2006 First edition, Little Brown
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    Armstrong, Karen   ISLAM. £10.00    
      A Short History.   189pp. Index.   Fine in fine dw.   2000 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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    Aziz, K.K.   BRITAIN AND MUSLIM INDIA. £21.00    
      A Study of British Public Opinion vis-à-vis the Development of Muslim Nationalism in India 1857-1947.   278pp. Index.   Very good in very good dw.   1963 First edition, Heinemann.
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    Aziz, K.K.   BRITAIN AND MUSLIM INDIA. £12.00    
      A Study of British Public Opinion vis-à-vis the Development of Muslim Nationalism in India 1857-1947.   278pp. Index.   Very good in very good dustwrapper.   1987 Reprint, Islamic Book Service, Lahore.
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    Bell, Gertrude (translates).   TEACHINGS OF HAFIZ. £6.00    
         186pp. Some scholarly light pencil notes.   Very good.   1985 Second impression, The Sufi Trust.
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    Blunt, Wilfrid.   SPLENDOURS OF ISLAM. £15.00    
         152pp. Index. 32 colour plates. Many illustrations in black and white. An introduction to Islamic architecture, painting and crafts.   Fine in fine dw.   1976 First edition, Angus & Robertson.
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    Blunt, Wilfrid.   PIETRO'S PILGRIMAGE. £13.00    
      A Journey to India and back at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century.   320pp. Indes. 29 b/w illustrations and a map. Pietro Della Valle travelled from Constantinople through Syria and Persia to India from 1614.   Very good indeed.   1953 First edition, James Barrie.
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    Brown, John P.   THE DARVISHES or Oriental Spiritualism. £32.00    
         496pp. Index. Facsimile reprint of 1868 original. 23 b/w illustrations. Edited with an introduction and notes by H.A Rose.   Very good in chipped dustwrapper.   1968 Frank Cass.
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    Bukhsh, S.Khuda.   STUDIES: INDIAN AND ISLAMIC. £25.00    
         275pp. Index.   Very good.   1927 First edition, Kegan Paul, Trubner.
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    Burton, Sir Richard.   A PILGRIMAGE TO MECCAH AND MEDINAH. £13.00    
         357pp. In dark green cloth. First volume in the publisher's 'Great Explorations' series of reprints.   Very good.   1937 Herbert Joseph.
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    Cantwell-Smith, Wilfred.   ISLAM IN MODERN HISTORY. £21.00    
         317pp. Index. Long chapters on Pakistan and on India.   Fine in rubbed dw.   1957 First edition, Princeton University Press.
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    Dalrymple, William.   WHITE MUGHALS. £12.00    
      Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India.   580pp. Index. Illustrations in colour and b/w.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   2002 First edition, Harper Collins.
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    Dalrymple, William.   RETURN OF A KING. £14.00    
      The Battle for Afghanistan.   567pp Index. Illustrations in colour.   Fine in fine dw.   2013 First edition, Bloomsbury.
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    Dalrymple, William.   RETURN OF A KING. £14.00    
      The Battle for Afghanistan.   567pp Index. Illustrations in colour. Account of the First Afghan War. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author on the title page.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   2013 Reprint, Bloomsbury.
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    Dalrymple, William.   NINE LIVES. £12.00    
      In Search of the Sacred in Modern India.   285pp. Index.   Fine in fine price-clipped dustwrapper.   2009 First edition, Bloomsbury.
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    de Jong-Keesing, Elisabeth.   INAYAT KHAN. £10.00    
      A Biography.   302pp. Card covers. Biography of philosopher who spread Sufi ideas in the West.   Very good.   1974 East-West Publications, The Hague.
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    Ettinghausen, Richard.   LES TRESORS DE L'ASIE: LA PEINTURE ARABE. £120.00    
         212pp. 4to. Index. 81 illustration in colour tipped-in. A lavishly produced volume.   Fine in very good dustwrapper.   1962, Skira, Geneva.
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    Feher, Geza.   TURKISCHE MINIATUREN aus den Chroniken der Ungarischen Feldzuge. £43.00    
         30pp + 51 plates in colour with notes. A beautifully produced book. Text in German.   Fine in fine dw.   1978, Gustav KiepenheuerVerlag, Leipzig und Weimar.
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    Heidelberger, Franz et al.   RITUAL, INITIATION AND SECRETS IN SUFI CIRCLES. £10.00    
         49pp. Card-covered stapled booklet.   Very good.   1980 The Centre for Sufi Studies.
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    Het Oosters Antiquarium.   ISLAMIC LEGACY. £10.00    
         250pp. Card covers. Bookseller's catalogue with over 1000 items.   Fine.   2005 Leiden.
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    Hibb, H.A.R. and Kramers, J.H.   SHORTER ENCYLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM. £21.00    
         671pp double-column.   Very good indeed in stained dw.   1953 E.J.Brill, Leiden
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    Hunter, W.W.   THE INDIAN MUSALMANS. £10.00    
         xviii, 211pp. Paperback reprint of 1871 original with introduction by Bimal Prasad. Treason, conspiracy and danger to the Empire. First study of the Wahabi movement in India.   Front hinge cracked.   2002 Rupa, New Delhi.
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    Hutt, Anthony and Harrow, Leonard.   IRANI. £15.00    
      Islamic Architecture.   192pp. 136 illustrations, 24 in colour. Card covers. 17th century architecture in Iran.   Very good indeed.   1977 Scorpion Publications.
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    Jenkins, Marilyn (edits).   ISLAMIC ART IN THE KUWAIT NATIONAL MUSEUM. £34.00    
      The al-Sabah Collection.   157pp. 4to. 139 items illustrated in colour with notes.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1983, Sotheby, London.
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    Khan, Hazrat Inayat   THE SUFI MESSAGE OF HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN. £12.00    
      Volume X: Sufi Mysticism, The Path of Initiation and Discipleship, Sufi Poetry, Art, The Problem of the Day.   270pp. Portrait frontispiece.   Very good.   1964 First edition, Barrie and Rockliffe.
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    Khan, Khaja.   STUDIES IN TASAWWUF. £10.00    
         260pp. Index.   Very good in worn dw.   1973 Second edition, Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, Lahore.
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    Lewis, Bernard.   THE MUSLIM DISCOVERY OF EUROPE. £16.00    
         350pp. Index. Seven centuries of interaction between East and West.   Fine in fine dw.   1982 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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    Macey, R.E.G.   ORIENTAL PRAYER RUGS. £52.00    
         24pp + 64 full-page b/w plates.   Fine in very good dw.   1961 First edition, F.Lewis, Leigh-on-Sea.
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    Mackintosh-Smith, Tim.   YEMEN. £12.00    
      Travels in Dictionary Land.   280pp. Index. Etchings by Martin Yeoman.   Fine in fine dw.   1998 Reprint, John Murray.
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    Marlowe, John.   PERFIDIOUS ALBION. £12.00    
      The Origins of Anglo-French Rivalry in the Levant.   323pp. Index. Study of the period 1763-1841.   Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper.   1971 First edition, Elek Books.
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    Mayne, Peter.   SAINTS OF SIND. £16.00    
         200pp. Frontispiece photograph and map. Journeys to Sufi shrines.   Very good in slightly chipped dw.   1956 First edition, John Murray.
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    McKinnon, Michael.   ARABIA: Sand, Sea, Sky. £14.00    
         224pp. Index. Study of ecology and wildlife with fine colour photographs.   Near-fine in fine dw. Slight wear to front endpaper.   1990 First edition, BBC Books.
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    Meherally, Akbarally.   A HISTORY OF AGAKHANI ISMAILIS. £24.00    
         196pp. Card covers.   Fine.   1991 A.M.Trust, Canada.
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    Meherally, Akbarally.   UNDERSTANDING ISMAILISM. £12.00    
      A Unique Tariqah of Islam.   175pp. Card covers.   Fine.   1988 A.M.Trust, Canada.
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    Mishra, Pankaj.   FROM THE RUINS OF EMPIRE. £12.00    
      The Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia,   356pp. Index. The intellectual history of Asian nationalism from the Indian Mutiny to al-Qaeda. A long study of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani.   Very good indeed but lacks dustwrapper.   2012 First edition, Allen Lane.
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    Momen, Wendi (edits).   A BASIC BAHA'I DICTIONARY. £10.00    
         261pp. Card covers. Ex-public library copy.   Very good indeed.   1991 Reprint, George Ronald, Oxford.
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    Morton, Michael Quentin.   IN THE HEART OF THE DESERT. £14.00    
         265pp. Map and colour photographs at rear. Many b/w photos in text. A career prospecting for oil and other exploration in the Arabian Peninsula.   Fine in fine dw.   2006 Green Mountain Press, Aylesford..
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    Mujeeb, M.   THE INDIAN MUSLIMS. £24.00    
         590pp. Index. A major historical and sociological account.   Very good in very good dw.   1967 First edition, Allen & Unwin.
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    Mujeeb, M.   THE INDIAN MUSLIMS. £30.00    
         590pp. Index. A major historical and sociological account.   Near fine in like dw. Inscription on front endpaper   1967 First edition, Allen & Unwin.
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    Rashid, Ahmed.   DESCENT INTO CHAOS. £13.00    
      How the war against Islamic extremism is being lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.   484pp. Index.   Fine in near-fine dw.   2008 First edition, Allen Lane.
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    Rice, David Talbot.   ISLAMIC ART. £16.00    
         286pp. Index. 55 plates in colour and 193 in b/w.   Very good in chipped dw.   1965 First edition, Thames & Hudson.
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    Robinson, B.W. et al.   ISLAMIC ART IN THE KEIR COLLECTION. £95.00    
         316pp. Index. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Sections on the arts of the book, metalwork, ceramics and carpets   Fine in dw with very slight edge-wear.   1988 First edition, Faber.
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    Robinson, Francis.   SEPARATISM AMONG INDIAN MUSLIMS. £32.00    
      The politics of the United Provinces' Muslims 1960-1923.   469pp. Index. 76pp appendices with short biographies of key figures   Fine in very good dw. An outstanding copy.   1974 First edition, cambridge University Press.
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    Rogerson, Barnaby.   THE HEIRS TO THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD AND THE Roots of the Sunni-Shia Achism. £12.00    
         415pp. Index.   Fine in fine dw.   2006 First edition, Little, Brown.
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    Runciman, Steven.   THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE 1453. £12.00    
         256pp. Index. 8 plates and 4 maps (one folding).   Fine in very good dw with faded spine panel.   1965 First edition, Cambridge University Press.
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    Runciman, Steven.   A HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES. £45.00    
         In 3 volumes. 377, 523 and 530pp. Volumes 2 and 3 are first editions. Vol1 'The First Crusade' 8 plates and 5 maps. Vol 2 'The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187' 8 plates and 6 maps.Vol 3 'The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades' 15plates and 5 maps.   Fine in very good dustwrappers. An outstanding set.   1951, 1952 and 1954 Cambridge University Press.
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    Russell, Ralph (edits).   HIDDEN IN THE LUTE. £8.00    
      An Anthology of Two Centuries of Urdu Literature.   312pp. Index.   Fine in fine dw.   1995 First edition, Viking, New Delhi.
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    Schimmel, Annemarie and Welch, Stuart Cary.   ANVARI'S DIVAN: A POCKET BOOK FOR AKBAR, £14.00    
         142pp. Index. 4to. 51 illustrations (44 in colour). 2 maps.   Fine in very good dw.   1983 First edition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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    Searight, Sarah.   THE BRITISH IN THE MIDDLE EAST. £5.00    
         290pp. Index. Endpaper maps. c160 b/w illustrations.   Fine in fine dw.   1979 Revised edition, East-West Publications.
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    Shah, Idries (introduces).   THE WORLD OF THE SUFIS. £10.00    
         307pp.   Very good in very good dustwrapper. Dent in top edge of front board.   1979 First edition, Octagon Press.
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    Shah, Idries.   WISDOM OF THE IDIOTS. £10.00    
         143pp. Short Sufi stories.   Very good.   1969 First edition, Octagon Press.
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    Shah, Idries.   THINKERS OF THE EAST. £10.00    
      Studies in Experimentalism   198pp. A selection from Sufi writings.   Some marginal notes. Very good.   1971 First edition, Cape.
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    Shah, Idries.   THE SUFIS. £12.00    
         404pp. 13pp introduction by Robert Graves.   One private library stamp and label. Otherwise fine in fine dw.   1977 Second impression, Octagon Press.
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    Shah, Idries.   THE WAY OF THE SUFI. £10.00    
         287pp. A selection from Sufi writings.   Very good.   1968 First edition, Cape.
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    Shah, Idries.   THE SUFIS. £10.00    
         404pp.   Fine in fine dw.   1989 Reprint, Octagon Press.
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    Shah, Idries.   THE COMMANDING SELF. £10.00    
         332pp. Question and answer introduction to Sufi ides.      1994 reprint, The Octagon Press.
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    Shah, Idries.   THE SUBLETIES OF THE INIMITABLE MULLA NASRUDIN. £12.00    
         102pp.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1986 Reprint, The Octagon Press.
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    Shah, Idries.   KNOWING HOW TO KNOW. £10.00    
         307pp.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1998 First edition, Octagon Press.
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    Sharif, Ja'far.   ISLAM IN INDIA, or the Qanun-I-Islam. £55.00    
      The Customs of the Musalmans of India, comprising a full and exact account of their various rites and ceremonies from the moment of birth to the hour of death.   374pp. 20 illustrations.Index. Translated by G.A.Herklots, and edited by William Crooke.   Very good in the original dark blue cloth   1921 Revised edition, Oxford University Press.
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    Singh, Iqbal.   THE ARDENT PILGRIM. £7.00    
      An Introduction to the Life and Work of Mohammed Iqbal.   247pp. 'An attempt at understanding the contradictions that made him legendary as a poet and... as a prophet of pan-Islamic ideas.'   Fine in very good dw.   1951 First edition, Longmans, Green and Co..
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    Smith, Wilfred Cantwell.   ISLAM IN MODERN HISTORY. £14.00    
         317pp. Index.   Very good indeed in slightly chipped dw.   1957 First edition, Princeton University Press.
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    Stark, Freya.   BEYOND EUPHRATES. £16.00    
      Autobiography 1928-1933.   341pp. Index. 52 b/w photographs. Sketch map. Neat owner's initials.   Very good indeed in the standard green cloth without the dustwrapper.   1951 First edition, John Murray.
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    Stark, Freya.   THE COAST OF INCENSE. £16.00    
      Autobiography 1933-1939.   287pp. Index. 51 b/w photographs. Sketch map. Neat owner's initials.   Very good indeed in the standard green cloth without the dustwrapper.   1953 First edition, John Murray.
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    Stark, Freya.   DUST IN THE LION'S PAW. £18.00    
      Autobiography 1939-1946.   297pp. Index. 21 b/w photographs. Sketch map.   Very good indeed in the standard green cloth without the dustwrapper.   1961 First edition, John Murray.
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    Stark, Freya.   TRAVELLER'S PRELUDE. £12.00    
      Autobiography 1928-1933.   346pp. Index. 24 b/w photographs. Sketch map. Neat owner's initials.   Very good indeed in the standard green cloth without the dustwrapper.   1951 Reprint, John Murray.
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    Sykes, Major P.M. and Khan Bahadur Ahmad din Khan   THE GLORY OF THE SHIA WORLD. £74.00    
      The Tale of a Pilgrimage.   279pp. 4 plates in colour from Persian paintings and many b/w illustrations.   An outstanding copy in complete dw.   1910 First edition, Macmillan.
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    Sykes, Major P.M. and Khan Bahadur Ahmad din Khan   THE GLORY OF THE SHIA WORLD. £35.00    
      The Tale of a Pilgrimage.   279pp. 4 plates in colour from Persian paintings and many b/w illustrations.   Very god indeed.   1910 First edition, Macmillan.
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    Tabassum, Farhat.   DEOBAND ULEMA'S MOVEMENT FOR THE FREEDOM OF INDIA. £12.00    
         xi + 200pp. Index. Card covers.   Fine.   2006 First edition, Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind, New Delhi.
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    Taheri, Amir.   CRESCENT IN A RED SKY. £13.00    
      The Future of Islam in the Soviet Union.   287pp. Index.   Fine in fine dw.   1989 First edition, Hutchinson.
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    Unsal, Behcet.   TURKISH ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE £23.00    
      in Seljuk and Ottoman times 1071-1923.   116pp. Index. 130 b/w photographs.   Fine in fine dustwrapper.   1973, Academy Editions, London.
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    Vahid, Syed Abdul.   IQBAL. £14.00    
      His art and thought.   254pp. Index. First printed privately in Hyderabad.   Fine in very good dw. An outstanding copy.   1959 First edition, John Murray.
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    Verkaaik, Oskar.   MIGRANTS AND MILITANTS. £12.00    
      Fun and Urban Violence in Pakistan.   214pp. Index. Field work with militant youth in the MQM movement..   Near-fine in like dw.   2005 Manas Publications, New Delhi.
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    Ward, Philip.   BAHRAIN. £18.00    
      A Travel Guide.   270pp. Card covers, Index. Photographs in b/w.   Owner's rubber stamp mark. Otherwise fine.   1993 First edition, Oleander Press.
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    Weiss, Walter M and Westermann, Kurt-Michael (photographs).   THE BAZAAR. £14.00    
      Markets and Merchants of the Islamic World.   256pp. 4to. Index. 345 colour photographs. The book weighs 2kg.   Near fine in fine dw. Unobtrusive inscription.   1998 First edition, Thames & Hudson.
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    Wheatcroft, Andrew.   INFIDELS. £12.00    
      The Conflict between Christendom and Islam 638-2002.   443pp. Index. 43 b/w illustrations.   Fine in dw with a single scratch on the rear panel.   2003 First edition, Viking.
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    Winder, R.B. et al.   THE GENIUS OF ARAB CIVILISATION. £25.00    
      Source of Renaissance.   231pp. 4to. Index. Full-size paperback edition. Illustrated essays on art, architecture, philosophy, science, trade etc.   Very good. A little rubbed at the corners.   1978, Phaidon Press.
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    Wingate, Major F.R.   THE YEAR'S CAPTIVITY IN THE MAHDI'S CAMP. £18.00    
      From the Original Manuscript of Father Joseph Ohrwalder,   2 vols bound as one. 295, 296pp. Small 8vo. Bound with white leather spine and corners. 'Villa Bonaventura' embossed in gold on front board.   Front hinge splitting but binding firm. Otherwise very good.   1892 Heinemann and Balestier, Leipzig.
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    Zutshi, Chitralekha.   LANGUAGES OF BELONGING. £16.00    
      Islam, Regional Identity and the Making of Kashmir.   359pp. Index. 10 b/w plates and 3 maps. A study of colonial and post-colonial Kashmir.   Fine in fine dw.   2004 First edition, Oxford University Press, New York.
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