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Al Qursan: (Arabic edition)
Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud
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Description for Al Qursan: (Arabic edition)
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It's the early part of the nineteenth century and the Arabian Peninsula and the waters surrounding it are ablaze. Piracy in the Gulf threatens global maritime trade routes while the Wahabbi strain of Islam is conquering followers town by town across the region. Britain, eager to reinforce its presence in the Middle East and protect the East India Company's ships, has a plan: send a man-of-war from England to quash the pirates while persuading Egypt to join an international alliance with Oman and Persia to fight the Wahabbis. At the center of it all lies a priceless Indian sword, a ... Read more
It's the early part of the nineteenth century and the Arabian Peninsula and the waters surrounding it are ablaze. Piracy in the Gulf threatens global maritime trade routes while the Wahabbi strain of Islam is conquering followers town by town across the region. Britain, eager to reinforce its presence in the Middle East and protect the East India Company's ships, has a plan: send a man-of-war from England to quash the pirates while persuading Egypt to join an international alliance with Oman and Persia to fight the Wahabbis. At the center of it all lies a priceless Indian sword, a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Language
Arabic
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, Qatar
ISBN
9789992178768
SKU
V9789992178768
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Ref
99-34
About Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud
Abdul Aziz Al Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist. He has a BA in engineering from Clarkson University in New York and an aviation and engineering diploma from the UK. He worked as editor-in-chief of Alsharq and The Peninsula newspapers as well as www.aljazeera.net. This is his first novel.
Reviews for Al Qursan: (Arabic edition)
A fine talent in the world of novel writing... Al Qursan succeeds in taking us back to the past... and herein lies the value and importance of the novel' Ibrahim Darwish Al Qods Al Arabi 'Abdul Aziz Al Mahmoud exquisitely relates an era of Gulf history in an outstanding and creative historical novel' Yasser Al Zaater, Al Arab '...the author ... Read more