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The white mosque : a memoir / by Samatar, Sofia,author.(CARDINAL)400822;
Includes bibliographical references."In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated not by the hardships of their journey, but by its aftermath: the establishment of a small Christian village in the Muslim Khanate of Khiva. Named Ak Metchet, "The White Mosque," after the Mennonites' whitewashed church, the village lasted for fifty years. In pursuit of this curious history, Samatar discovers a variety of characters whose lives intersect around the ancient Silk Road, from a fifteenth-century astronomer-king, to an intrepid Swiss woman traveler of the 1930s, to the first Uzbek photographer, and explores such topics as Central Asian cinema, Mennonite martyrs, and Samatar's own complex upbringing as the daughter of a Swiss-Mennonite and a Somali-Muslim, raised as a Mennonite of color in America"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Travel writing.; Biographies.; Samatar, Sofia; Mennonites; Authors, American;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
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A 16th century mosque / by Macdonald, Fiona.(CARDINAL)717350; Bergin, Mark,1961-(CARDINAL)428081;
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Subjects: Süleymaniye Camii (Istanbul, Turkey); Mosques; Islam;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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Dancing in the mosque [sound recording] : an Afghan mother's letter to her son / by Qādirī, Ḥumayrā,1979 or 1980-author.(CARDINAL)837035; Stanizai, Zaman,translator.; Delawari, Ariana,1980-narrator.(CARDINAL)787576;
Read by Ariana Delawari.A memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Autobiographies.; Qādirī, Ḥumayrā, 1979 or 1980-; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Living architecture: Ottoman. / by Vogt-Göknil, Ulya.(CARDINAL)170898;
Bibliography: pages 183-184.
Subjects: Architecture; Mosques;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Laughing all the way to the mosque / by Nawaz, Zarqa,author.;
Subjects: Nawaz, Zarqa.; Muslims; Muslim women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dancing in the mosque : an Afghan mother's letter to her son / by Qādirī, Ḥumayrā,1979 or 1980-author.(CARDINAL)837035;
"In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military on edge, it was not uncommon for an armed soldier to point his gun at the pregnant woman's bulging stomach, terrified that she was hiding a bomb. Frightened and in pain, she was once forced to make her way on foot. Propelled by the love she held for her soon-to-be-born child, Homeira walked through blood and wreckage to reach the hospital doors. But the joy of her beautiful son's birth was soon overshadowed by other dangers that would threaten her life. No ordinary Afghan woman, Homeira refused to cower under the strictures of a misogynistic social order. Defying the law, she risked her freedom to teach children reading and writing and fought for women's rights in her theocratic and patriarchal society. Devastating in its power, Dancing in the Mosque is a mother's searing letter to a son she was forced to leave behind. In telling her story--and that of Afghan women--Homeira challenges you to reconsider the meaning of motherhood, sacrifice, and survival. Her story asks you to consider the lengths you would go to protect yourself, your family, and your dignity."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Qādirī, Ḥumayrā, 1979 or 1980-; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 17
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Of mosaics and mosques: a look at the campaign to preserve cultural heritage / by Wigg, David,1939-(CARDINAL)207057;
Subjects: Mosaics; Mosques;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The church in the shadow of the mosque : Christians and Muslims in the world of Islam / by Griffith, Sidney Harrison.(CARDINAL)762934;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-212) and index.
Subjects: Christianity and culture; Christianity and other religions; Islam;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A mosque in Munich : Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West / by Johnson, Ian,1962 July 27-(CARDINAL)462606;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-261) and index.Prologue: On the edge of town -- Hot wars -- The Eastern front -- The Turkologist -- The Nazi prototype -- Cold wars -- Reviving the Ostministerium -- The key to the Third World -- Learning their lesson -- "A politically smart act" : the mosque is conceived -- Dr. Ramadan arrives -- Marriage of convenience -- The novelist's tale -- Winning the mosque -- Losing control -- Modern wars -- The Brotherhood triumphant -- Beyond Munich -- Defining the debate -- 1950s redux -- Epilogue: Inside the mosque.Investigates the origins of Islam's presence in the western world, describing the defection of ex-Soviet Muslims to Germany during World War II and building a mosque in Munich with links to leaders and intelligence agencies.
Subjects: Mende, Gerhard von, 1904-1963.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt); Anti-communist movements; Cold War.; Ex-Nazis; Islam and politics; Islamic fundamentalism; Mosques; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The grand mosque of Paris : a story of how Muslims saved Jews during the Holocaust / by Ruelle, Karen Gray.(CARDINAL)380705; DeSaix, Deborah Durland.(CARDINAL)361387;
Includes bibliographical references and filmography (pages 37-39) and index.During the Nazi occupation of Paris, no Jew was safe from arrest and deportation to a concentration camp. Few Parisians were willing to risk their own lives to help. Yet many Jews found refuge in an unlikely place, the sprawling complex of the Grand Mosque of Paris. Not just a place of worship but also a community center, this hive of activity was an ideal temporary hiding place for escaped prisoners of war and Jews of all ages, including children.NC1090LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish-Arab relations.; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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