Warrior Saint, First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. chips and tears to jacket edges, otherwise a clean, square copy, limited edition, signed and inscribed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition second printing. 265 Pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. pgs.265 flyleaf has a small tape shadow Book #788 d/j top left corner on hinge 1" x1" V shaped piece missing tears to top spine wear to corners 2 short tears to lower back near hinge some sunning to covers. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. first edition as stated. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is GOOD+ ; covers have faint stains and rubbing, mild shelf wear. Binding tight, text clean, unmarked. Hist. Stax.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in a very good (minor edge wear) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction: Sufi and the Ghazi. Part One: A Life. 2. The hagiography. 3. An Urdu Mirror of Masud. 4. The Author as Hero. Part Two: Lore. 5. Tales and the text. 6. Reproductive anxiety. 7. Zohra Bibi. 8. Birth-marriage-martyrdom. 9. Ghazi Miyan and Cowherds. 10. Grey Mare, Lilli. 11. Cooking for a Turkic brother. 12. Idols. Part Three: Shrine. 13. Altars. 14. Dafalis and servitors. 15. The Bahraich Shrine. Part Four: Counter-Histories. 16. Sites and cenotaphs. 17. Investing the Ghazi. 18. Demotic warfare. 19. Downplaying the iconoclast? Part Five: A Long Afterlife. 20. Everyday memories. 21. Epilogue. Appendices. Index. Conquest and Community tells the story of the Indo-Turkic warrior saint Ghazi Miyan and his influential cult in the Gangetic plains. A purported nephew of Mahmud of Ghazni, Ghazi Miyan was supposedly martyred in holy war against Hindu kings near Bahraich in modern-day Uttar Pradesh in 1034 CE. Conspicuously absent from contemporary Persian chronicles about his famous uncle, he is, nevertheless, the subject of glowing hagiographies from the seventeenth century onwards, as well as an oral folkloric tradition, which thrives to this day. His cult continues draw pilgrims of varying castes, both Muslim and Hindu, from all over northern India to his shrine in Bahraich. Shahid Amin studies the history and growth of this cult and its manifestations in the tales people tell, the ballads they sing, the shrines they visit and the hagiographies they have written. He also addresses the disquiet and criticism the cult has provoked in both orthodox Hindu and Muslim quarters, for Ghazi Miyan is a complex, sometimes troubling figure, an amalgam of different traditions and tropes that do not always coexist easily. He features in text and folklore both as a pious iconoclast, who smashes Hindu idols and also as a staunch protector of cows and cowherds, a putative brother to Hindu women, and a connoisseur of things Indic from pan to the humble mahua tree. In studying the Ghazi, his cult and its reception history, this book offers an astute perspective on the ways in which the Turko-Islamic invasions of India, c. 1000 1200 CE, have entered historical and popular memory. By considering the role of religious conflict in the building of the multi-religious cult of Ghazi Miyan, it also sheds new light on the nature of syncretism in the subcontinent. This new kind of subaltern history, will interest historians, both medievalist and modern, anthropologists, folklorists and students of popular culture, religious studies and historiography.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 302 pages illustrations : 21 cm. Contents: Part I : The laughing libertine : I. The boy ; II. The young man ; III. The officer ; IV. The African ; V. The explorer ; VI. Reconnaissance ; VII. Into the rif ; VIII. The return of the explorer ; IX. The call Part II : The saint of the Sahara : X. The trappist ; XI. Brother Charles ; XII. Priesthood ; XIII. The White Fathers ; XIV. The first parish ; XV. The church militant ; XVI. The Twareg ; XVII. The hoggar ; XVIII. Brother Michel ; XIX. Foucauld and Moussa visit France ; XX. The Senussi ; XXI. Death of a hero ; XXII. The tragic sequel Bibliography Index.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This book is bound in bright blue boards with bright silver letters on the spine. There is light wear on the spine tips & cover corners. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. States: "First Edition".

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good octavo 302p., frontis., map, bibliog., index, Story of Charles de Foucauld 1858-1916 the North African Warrior turned Monk.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo 175pp., b/w pls., maps, notes, bibliog., index, 'It began with voices-St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret speaking to an ordinary farmer s daughter. Inspired to aid the future King Charles VII, whose right to the throne had been denied by the English in the Hundred Years War, Joan of Arc made her journey clad in male attire. Theologians testified to the veracity of her divine claims, and she was furnished with a host of troops. But how did she achieve the military feats that made her a legend?'.