A Mosque In The Jungle

Author : Othman Wok
Publisher : Epigram Books
ISBN 13 : 9814901717
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mosque in the Jungle written by Othman Wok and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years before his political career took off, Othman Wok pioneered the writing of ghost stories and horror fiction in Singapore and Malaysia. Othman Wok left an indelible mark on Singaporean politics and society: signing the Independence of Singapore Agreement 1965, overseeing the construction of Singapore’s first large-scale sporting arena, working to advance the quality of social welfare services, developing the Mosque Building Fund, and being (in the words of PM Lee Hsien Loong) “steadfast and unwavering in believing in a multiracial, multi-religious, meritocratic Singapore”, among many other accomplishments. In addition, he pioneered the writing of ghost stories and horror fiction in Malay while working as a young reporter for Utusan Melayu and Mustika magazine between 1952 and 1956. These stories were fantastically popular, making him a household name in the Malay-speaking world, years before his political career took off. In fact, these tales may have been the first examples of horror fiction in either Singapore or Malaysia, in any language. A Mosque in the Jungle assembles two dozen of the best stories from his three fiction collections in English: Malayan Horror (1991), The Disused Well (1995) and Unseen Occupants (2006). Curated by award-winning poet and fictionist Ng Yi-Sheng, this book provides an entry point into Othman’s fiction, and a window into the work of a “literary genius” (Farouk A. Peru, Malay Mail Online)

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ISBN 13 : 9789814901703
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mosque in the Jungle written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sami G. Massoud
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004415297
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Islamic Historiography written by Sami G. Massoud and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in Islamic Historiography: Essays in Honour of Professor Donald P. Little examines historiographical production in a variety of milieus and traditions, from the classical to the early modern periods.

Author : Richard M. Eaton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520917774
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 written by Richard M. Eaton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard Eaton uses archaeological evidence, monuments, narrative histories, poetry, and Mughal administrative documents to trace the long historical encounter between Islamic and Indic civilizations. Moving from the year 1204, when Persianized Turks from North India annexed the former Hindu states of the lower Ganges delta, to 1760, when the British East India Company rose to political dominance there, Eaton explores these moving frontiers, focusing especially on agrarian growth and religious change.

Author : W. W. Hunter
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385204143
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Statistical Account of Bengal written by W. W. Hunter and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-14 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : Archæological Survey of India
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report written by Archæological Survey of India and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1902/03 includes list: Archaeological reports published under official authority.

Author : Richard M. Eaton
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141966556
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India in the Persianate Age written by Richard M. Eaton and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 'Remarkable ... this brilliant book stands as an important monument to an almost forgotten world' William Dalrymple, Spectator A sweeping, magisterial new history of India from the middle ages to the arrival of the British The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it has created its own religions, philosophies and social systems. And yet this ancient land experienced prolonged and intense interaction with the peoples and cultures of East and Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa and, especially, Central Asia and the Iranian plateau between the eleventh and eighteenth centuries. Richard M. Eaton's wonderful new book tells this extraordinary story with relish and originality. His major theme is the rise of 'Persianate' culture - a many-faceted transregional world informed by a canon of texts that circulated through ever-widening networks across much of Asia. Introduced to India in the eleventh century by dynasties based in eastern Afghanistan, this culture would become thoroughly indigenized by the time of the great Mughals in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This long-term process of cultural interaction and assimilation is reflected in India's language, literature, cuisine, attire, religion, styles of rulership and warfare, science, art, music, architecture, and more. The book brilliantly elaborates the complex encounter between India's Sanskrit culture - which continued to flourish and grow throughout this period - and Persian culture, which helped shape the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire and a host of regional states, and made India what it is today.

Author : Sir William Wilson Hunter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Statistical Account of Bengal written by Sir William Wilson Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph Smyth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistical and Geographical Report of the 24-Pergunnahs District written by Ralph Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788172681937
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bengal District Gazetteers written by Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: