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Title: The Sabres of Paradise by Lesley Blanch ISBN: 0-88184-042-4 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Shades of Arrakis
Comment: This book is not only a very pleasant read about the Russian conquest of the Caucasus, and thus good background for understanding the current problems there. It's also a source from which Frank Herbert drew heavily when writing his science fiction novel *Dune*. Such terms as chakobsa, kanly and kindjal are not unique to Blanch's book, but they certainly resonate with Herbert's fans.
Highly recommended and very readable.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lion of Dhagestan
Comment: The reviews I've read so far fail to emphasize that this book, while it certainly covers much of the history of the Caucuses in the latter half of the 19th century, is in no small part a biography of Imam Shamyl, "The Lion of Dhagestan", and his role as the leader of what was referred to as "The Mureed Wars". Shamyl was a legendary, charismatic leader who, through the power of his Islamic faith, and with the added dimension of being son-in-law of one of the great Shaykhs of the Naqshbandi Sufi order (Jamaluddin Ghumuqi), united the various tribes and peoples of this region to fight off the great Russian Bear for nearly 25 years. It is an epic tale of heroism and tragedy on a personal and cultural level, and will grip the reader as they follow the exploits and the battles that are still to this day legendary in the Caucuses.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Lion of Dhagestan
Comment: The reviews I've read so far fail to emphasize that this book, while it certainly covers much of the history of the Caucuses in the latter half of the 19th century, is in no small part a biography of Imam Shamyl, "The Lion of Dhagestan", and his role as the leader of what was referred to as "The Mureed Wars". Shamyl was a legendary, charismatic leader who, through the power of his Islamic faith, and with the added dimension of being son-in-law of one of the great Shaykhs of the Naqshbandi Sufi order (Jamaluddin Ghumuqi), united the various tribes and peoples of this region to fight off the great Russian Bear for nearly 25 years. It is an epic tale of heroism and tragedy on a personal and cultural level, and will grip the reader as they follow the exploits and the battles that are still to this day legendary in the Caucuses.
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Title: Caucasus: Mountain Men and Holy Wars by Nicholas Griffin ISBN: 0312308531 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Nart Sagas from the Caucasus : Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs by John Colarusso ISBN: 0691026475 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 14 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Highlanders: A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory by Yo'Av Karny ISBN: 0374528128 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 05 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Allah's Mountains : The Battle for Chechnya by Sebastian Smith ISBN: 1860646514 Publisher: I.B.Tauris Pub. Date: 21 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Stories I Stole by Wendell Steavenson ISBN: 0802117376 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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