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Book Synopsis The Dervish Wars by : Robin Neillands
Download or read book The Dervish Wars written by Robin Neillands and published by John Murray. This book was released on 1996 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mad Mullah of Somaliland by : Douglas James Jardine
Download or read book The Mad Mullah of Somaliland written by Douglas James Jardine and published by London : H. Jenkins. This book was released on 1923 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sayyīd Muhammad `Abd Allāh al-Hasan (Somali: Sayid Maxamed Cabdille Xasan or Sayyid Mahammad Abdille Hasan), (April 7, 1856, in northern Somalia - December 21, 1920 in Imi, Ogaden) was a Somali religious and nationalist leader. Referred to as the Mad Mullah by the British, he led an armed resistance in Somalia for a period of over 20 years against British, Italian, and Ethiopian forces. The author of this book was Secretary to the Administration, Somaliland, 1916-21.
Download or read book American Dervish written by Ayad Akhtar and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.
Download or read book The Dervish written by Frances Kazan and published by Opus Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American war widow seeks emotional asylum with her sister at the American Consulate in Constantinople during the Allied occupation in 1919. Through a crossstitched pattern of synchronicity Kazan's heroine becomes a vital thread in the fate of Mustafa Kemal (later Ataturk) and his battle for his country's freedom. Based on firsthand accounts of the Turkish nationalist resistance, The Dervish details the extraordinary events that culminated in 1923 with the creation of the Republic of Turkey.--Publisher.
Book Synopsis Death and the Dervish by : Mesa Selminovic
Download or read book Death and the Dervish written by Mesa Selminovic and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheikh Nuruddin is a dervish at a Sarajevo monastery in the eighteenth century during the Turkish occupation. When his brother is arrested, he descends into the Kafkaesque world of the Turkish authorities in order to find out what has happened. As he does so, he begins to question his relations with society as a whole and, eventually, his life choices in general. Hugely successful when published in the 1960s, Death and the Dervish appears here in its first English translation.
Book Synopsis The River War by : Winston Churchill
Download or read book The River War written by Winston Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dervish Dust written by Robyn L. Coburn and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dervish Dust is the authorized biography of "cool cat" actor James Coburn, covering his career, romances, friendships, and spirituality. Thoroughly researched with unparalleled access to Coburn's friends and family, the book's foundation is his own words in the form of letters, poetry, journals, interviews, and his previously unpublished memoirs, recorded in the months before his passing. Dervish Dust details the life of a Hollywood legend that spanned huge changes in the entertainment and filmmaking industry. Coburn grew up in Compton after his family moved from Nebraska to California during the Great Depression. His acting career began with guest character roles in popular TV series such as The Twilight Zone, Bonanza, and Rawhide. In the 1960s Coburn was cast in supporting roles in such great pictures as The Magnificent Seven, Charade, and The Great Escape, and he became a leading man with the hit Our Man Flint. In 1999 Coburn won an Academy Award for his performance in Affliction. Younger viewers will recognize him as the voice of Henry Waternoose, the cranky boss in Monsters, Inc., and as Thunder Jack in Snow Dogs. An individualist and deeply thoughtful actor, Coburn speaks candidly about acting, show business, people he liked, and people he didn't, with many behind-the-scenes stories from his work, including beloved classics, intellectually challenging pieces, and less well-known projects. His films helped dismantle the notorious Production Code and usher in today's ratings system. Known for drum circles, playing the gong, and participating in LSD research, Coburn was New Age before it had a name. He brought his motto, Go Bravely On, with him each time he arrived on the set in the final years of his life, when he did some of his best work, garnering the admiration of a whole new generation of fans.
Download or read book Travels in a Dervish Cloak written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Omdurman 1898 by : Donald F. Featherstone
Download or read book Omdurman 1898 written by Donald F. Featherstone and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omdurman was one of the great desert battles of the Victorian era which concluded the conquest of the Dervish Empire, and avenged the death of General Gordon at Khartoum. This dramatic conflict witnessed hordes of native warriors set against British discipline and firepower, gunboats on the Nile, a dramatic cavalry charge and Kitchener, the Sirdar, as conqueror. This book explores the events, weaponry and leaders of both sides, and accompanying illustrations and colorful graphics bring the whole campaign vividly to life.
Book Synopsis Divine Madness by : ʻAbdi ʻAbdulqadir Sheik-ʻAbdi
Download or read book Divine Madness written by ʻAbdi ʻAbdulqadir Sheik-ʻAbdi and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, the Dervish leader who spearheaded the Somali resistance to British colonial interests in the early twentieth century; known by his followers as the Sayyid ("Master") and in the colonial literature as the "Mad Mullah". This book, which took Abdi more than ten years to complete, examines from a social and historical perspective the rise of the Sayyid and his movement. It consists of an introduction and six chapters.
Book Synopsis The Victorians at War, 1815-1914 by : Harold E. Raugh Jr.
Download or read book The Victorians at War, 1815-1914 written by Harold E. Raugh Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-10-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the strength of the British Army from 1815 to 1914, this groundbreaking reference presents the most recent research on the most significant wars, campaigns, battles, and leaders. The Victorians at War*, 1815–1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History surveys the major wars, campaigns, battles, and expeditions of the British Army as well as its weaponry, tactics, and all other aspects of its operations from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the dawn of World War I. Containing numerous maps depicting various theaters of war, this all-encompassing volume explains why the numerous military operations took place and what the results were. Biographies reveal fascinating facts about British and Indian Army officers and other ranks, while other entries deal with recruitment, training, education and literacy, uniforms, equipment, pay and conditions, social backgrounds of the soldiers, diseases and wounds they fell victim to, and much more. This volume is indispensable to those wanting to gain information about the British Army during this remarkable imperial era.
Book Synopsis The Downfall of the Dervishes by : Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett
Download or read book The Downfall of the Dervishes written by Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The River War by : Winston Churchill
Download or read book The River War written by Winston Churchill and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The River War is a historical book by Winston Churchill, concerning his experiences as a British Army officer, during the Mahdist War (1881–99) in the Sudan. The River War tells a story of the British imperial involvement in the Sudan, and the Mahdi War between the British forces, led by Lord Kitchener, and the Dervish forces, led by Khalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, "The Mahdi", heir to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad who had embarked on a campaign to conquer Egypt, to drive out the Ottomans.
Book Synopsis The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by : Winston Churchill
Download or read book The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan written by Winston Churchill and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan" by Winston Churchill Before becoming Prime Minister of England and a member of the British Parliament, Churchill served as a soldier and was stationed in India and Sudan. In this book, Churchill gives his perspective on Britain's reconquest of Sudan as a member of the Englished armed forces. Always an outspoken man, he doesn't shy away from sharing his opinions with a generous amount of commentary concerning Mohammedanism, British attitude to the war, the modern machinery of war, such as the telegraph, and its relative effectiveness.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of African Colonial Conflicts [2 volumes] by : Timothy J. Stapleton
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African Colonial Conflicts [2 volumes] written by Timothy J. Stapleton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two volumes introduce the history of colonial wars in Africa and illustrate why African countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan continue to experience ethnic, political, and religious violence in the early 21st century. This sweeping study examines the wars of colonial conquest fought in Africa during the 19th and early 20th centuries. From Britain's efforts to wrest control of the Sudan from military leader Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi, to Italy's decisive defeat at the Battle of Adowa in Ethiopia, to Leopold II's brutal reign over the Belgian Congo, the work surveys the devastation reaped upon the continent by colonization and illustrates how its combative influence continues to resonate in Africa today. Written by scholars in the fields of history and politics, this complete reference includes entries on wars, campaigns, rebellions, battles, leaders, and organizations. The work delves into key historical periods including the "Scramble for Africa" (ca.1880 to 1910); early European colonial wars in Africa, such as the Dutch in the Cape and the Portuguese in Angola and Mozambique; and African rebellions against the early colonial state in the 1890s and early 1900s. Entries feature prominent events and personalities as well as lesser-known occurrences and players.
Book Synopsis Understanding Statebuilding by : Rebecca Richards
Download or read book Understanding Statebuilding written by Rebecca Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much analysis of state building focusses on dissecting specific projects and attempting to identify what has gone ’wrong’ in states such as Afghanistan and Iraq. What draws less attention is what has gone ’right’ in non-interventionist statebuilding projects within 'unrecognised’ states. By examining this model in more depth a more successful model of statebuilding emerges in which the end goal of modern democracy and good governance are more likely to be realized. Indeed 'states-within-states’ such as Somaliland where external intervention in the statebuilding process is largely absent can provide vital new lessons. Somaliland is a functioning democratic political entity in northwestern Somalia which declared its independence from the troubled south in 1991 and then embarked on an ambitious project to create a democratic government and successful state in the post-conflict environment. The leaders and the people of Somaliland have since succeeded not only in maintaining peace and stability, but also in building the institutions of government and the foundations for democracy that have led to a succession of elections, peaceful transfers of power and a consolidation of democratization. The resulting state of Somaliland is widely hailed as a beacon of success within a politically turbulent region and provides a useful framework for successful statebuilding projects throughout the world.
Book Synopsis The River War (History of the War in Sudan) by : Winston Churchill
Download or read book The River War (History of the War in Sudan) written by Winston Churchill and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston Churchill's 'The River War (History of the War in Sudan)' is a comprehensive and meticulously researched account of the British military campaign in Sudan during the late 19th century. Writing in a clear and engaging style, Churchill provides a detailed analysis of the political and military events that shaped the conflict, as well as the cultural dynamics at play. This book offers a valuable insight into the imperialist mindset of the time, highlighting the complexities and consequences of colonial intervention in foreign lands. Churchill's portrayal of the Sudanese people and their resistance adds depth and nuance to the narrative, making it a compelling read for history enthusiasts and students alike. Winston Churchill's firsthand experience as a soldier and war correspondent in Sudan informed his perspective on the conflict, giving him a unique insight into the challenges faced by both sides. His political career and later role as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom further underscore his authority and credibility as a historian. 'The River War' stands as a testament to Churchill's intellectual prowess and critical thinking skills, showcasing his ability to analyze complex historical events with sensitivity and depth. I highly recommend 'The River War (History of the War in Sudan)' to anyone interested in military history, colonialism, or the broader implications of empire building. Churchill's insightful commentary and engaging narrative make this book a valuable resource for scholars, students, and general readers seeking a deeper understanding of the Sudanese conflict and its lasting impact.