ARMIES IN THE SAND: THE STRUGGLE FOR MECCA AND MEDINA

by Sabini, John

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Thames and Hudson, London, 1981, first edition.. 223 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0500012466 B&w plates, map. "As Puritan religious fervor sweeps across Islam, God-inspired militants rise up to purge Arabia of corrupt foreign influences, to secure the Holy Places o. f Islam from idolatrous Westerners and Western-backed Egyptian mercenaries. The time is early in the 19th Century, but the bitter clash between the Egyptians and the Wahhabis will reverberate through the 20th Century....paints a vivid, historical. c anvas of the period, full of incident, anecdote, portraits and pageantry. The Egyptian-Wahhabi War coincided with the era when the Hijaz and the Holy Places, once terra incognita in the West, were revealed in fascinating detail by a band of perc. e pt ive and sometimes disreputable travelers. The cast includes Ali Bey, the mysterious Spanish Jew in the pay of Napoleon, John Lewis Burckhardt, the Anglo-Swiss traveler later to be revered as a Muslim saint, Captain Richard Burton, the notoriou. s sch olar, explorer and anthropologist, and many others. (This book plunges) the reader into the harsh world of the desert and into the extraordinary spiritual drama enacted by the pilgrims to Mecca and Medina. Written with a deep understanding o. f Arab culture and history, this is a story which throws striking light on the resurgence of militant Islam today." Minor edge wear, slight bump at top of spine. Dust jacket has been price clipped, has light wrinkling at top of spine and flap-fol. ds - mi nor wrinkling elsewhere, moderate fading to spine color - lettering still legible, very light rubbing, small faint sticker mark on front panel. Very Good/Very Good-.

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