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Islam

An Illustrated History

By: Greville Stewart Parker Freeman-Grenville,Stuart Christopher Munro-Hay

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Islam

An Illustrated History

By: Greville Stewart Parker Freeman-Grenville,Stuart Christopher Munro-Hay

This lavishly illustrated work by two renowned scholars narrates the history of the spread of Islam all over the world, from its birth in Arabia in the seventh century to the present day. Islam remains an active and stillspreading phenomenon whose influence in different parts of the world is profound, and, to many non-Muslims, mysterious and little understood. With its 180 maps, 200 illustrations and carefully prepared text, the book brings clarity and under-standing to a religious and cultural force of great contemporary significance.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441165339

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9781441165336

The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant

The True History of the Tablets of Moses

By: Stuart Munro-Hay

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The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant

The True History of the Tablets of Moses

By: Stuart Munro-Hay

In a chapel in the old crenellated church of Mary of Zion in Aksum, Ethiopia is kept an object that emperors, patriarchs and priests have assured the world is the most important religious relic of all time: the tabota Seyon, Ark of the Covenant, the Ark of Zion. This Ark is alleged to be no other than the Ark that Moses had constructed at Sinai and which destroyed the walls of Jericho. It was brought into Jerusalem by King David and installed in a magnificent temple by King Solomon. Then, the story goes, it came to Ethiopia of its own choice with the half-Ethiopian, half-Jewish son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Are the legends true? Or is this story a monumental deception? Is there any real proof or is it the faith of a people alone that has created this Ark? From ancient texts to local stories, from the Bible to the writings of sixteenth and seventeenth century Jesuits, Stuart Munro-Hay traces the extraordinary legend of Ethiopia's Ark in what is a triumph of historical detective work. Munro-Hay scrutinises every mention of the Ark in Ethiopian records and tests every theory before he reaches his shocking conclusion. "The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant" promises to settle the mystery of the Ark of the Covenant for once and for all.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857716034

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9780857716033

Ethiopia Unveiled

Interaction Between Two Worlds

By: Stuart C. Munro-Hay

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Ethiopia Unveiled

Interaction Between Two Worlds

By: Stuart C. Munro-Hay

Ethiopia Unveiled explores some unusual and exotic aspects of an intriguing topic: Ethiopia ?s presentation to and reaction to, the outside world over a period of several hundred years. The lands concerned are chiefly European Mediterranean countries, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, but also include Yemen, Egypt, and Palestine, where the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem was the goal of innumerable Ethiopian pilgrims. Some years ago, as a visiting professor at the Humboldt University at Berlin, lecturing on Ethiopian history, the author noticed how surprised the students were to hear of the sometimes quite vigorous interaction between European mediaeval powers and remote, but Christian, Ethiopia . Despite the incredible difficulties of communication ? even with closer neighbors like Egypt, Jerusalem or the Yemen transmission was far from easy ? there are letters and reports still preserved concerning Ethiopian relations not just with Egyptian sultans and patriarchs and Yemeni imams, but also with European kings and popes. The former mainly concern church matters or sometimes the Nile, though once the vague fantastic dream of converting an Ethiopian Christian king to Islam surfaced in Yemen. The European contacts are perhaps more surprising, and include accreditations of ambassadors, schemes for joint anti-Muslim military action, and even marriage proposals. In later times the association between the two very different worlds that Ethiopia and Europe represented increased, but at the same time understanding became obscured by the intermingling of wonderful legendary additions; for example, the queen of Sheba, Prester John, or the story of the blocking of the Nile to starve Muslim Egypt. All in all, the Ethiopians? relations with the outside world seemed to deserve a study on their own ? the genesis of this book.

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Tsehai Publishers

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159907009X

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9781599070094

The Ark of the Covenant

By: Roderick Grierson,Stuart C. Munro-Hay

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The Ark of the Covenant

By: Roderick Grierson,Stuart C. Munro-Hay

At the heart of the city of Aksum in Ethiopia stands a small chapel, whose entrance is constantly guarded. Ethiopians believe that this chapel contains the Ark of the Covenant; their religious epic The Glory of Kings gives an account of how Makeda, the Queen of Sheba had a son by Solomon and how it was this son who removed the Ark from Jerusalem because of the disobedience of the people of Israel.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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0297841432

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9780297841432

Islam

An Illustrated History

By: Greville Stewart Parker Freeman-Grenville,Stuart Christopher Munro-Hay

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An Illustrated History

By: Greville Stewart Parker Freeman-Grenville,Stuart Christopher Munro-Hay

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