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Product Description: Francis Valerian Hammond: the most gifted young Egyptologist of his generationâor a crackpot so unstable that he merits his current residence in the locked ward of a psychiatric facility? Scrawled writings from his cell hint at a lost treasure known as King Solomonâs Wandâan artifact that Hammond claims somehow links the Egyptian prince Khaemwaset, son of pharaoh Ramses the Great, with otherworldly visitors called the Seraphs...read more
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9781481132497 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 19, 2013, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Francis Valerian Hammond: the most gifted young Egyptologist of his generationâor a crackpot so unstable that he merits his current residence in the locked ward of a psychiatric facility?
Product Description: This book explores the richness of Pakistans religious landscape, giving attention to a number of topics: Shia flagellation processions, Urdu-language pulp fiction, streetside rituals involving animals (pariah-kites and fortune-telling parrots), and the use of sorcery to contend with the jinns that are believed to infest cities such as Lahore...read more
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9781845533458 | Equinox, December 30, 2008, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This book explores the richness of Pakistans religious landscape, giving attention to a number of topics: Shia flagellation processions, Urdu-language pulp fiction, streetside rituals involving animals (pariah-kites and fortune-telling parrots), and the use of sorcery to contend with the jinns that are believed to infest cities such as Lahore.
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9781845533465 | Equinox, December 30, 2008, cover price $34.95
Product Description: Horse of Karbala is a study of Muharram rituals and interfaith relations in three locations in India: Ladakh, Darjeeling, and Hyderabad. These rituals commemorate an event of vital importance to Shia Muslims: the seventh-century death of the Imam Husain, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the battlefield of Karbala in Iraq...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780312216375 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 3, 2001, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Horse of Karbala is a study of Muharram rituals and interfaith relations in three locations in India: Ladakh, Darjeeling, and Hyderabad.
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9780312079536 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 1, 1992, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This book describes what Shiism means to those who actually practice it and serves as both an excellent introduction to the subject and an original work of scholarship.
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9780312100247 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, August 15, 1993), cover price $53.00 | About this edition: This book describes what Shiism means to those who actually practice it and serves as both an excellent introduction to the subject and an original work of scholarship.
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9789004095274 | Brill Academic Pub, March 1, 1992, cover price $68.75
9789004095304 | Brill Academic Pub, February 1, 1992, cover price $145.00
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