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The Black Crescent
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Author : Jane Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2024-03-05
The Black Crescent written by Jane Johnson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-05 with Fiction categories.
A captivating historical novel set in post-war Casablanca about a young man marked by djinns who must decide where his loyalties lie as the fight for Moroccan independence erupts. Hamou Badi is born in a village in the Anti-Atlas Mountains with the markings of the zouhry on his hands. In Morocco, the zouhry is a figure of legend, a child of both humans and djinns, capable of finding treasure, lost objects, and even water in the worst of droughts. But when young Hamou finds the body of a murdered woman, his life is forever changed. Haunted by this unsolved murder and driven by the desire to do good in the world, Hamou leaves his village for Casablanca to become an officer of the law under the French Protectorate. But Casablanca is not the shining beacon of modernity he was expecting. The forcible exile of Morocco’s sultan by the French sparks a nationalist uprising led by violent dissident groups, none so fearsome as the Black Crescent. Torn between his heritage and his employers, Hamou will be caught in the crossfire. The lines between right and wrong, past and future, the old world and the new, are not as clear as the magical lines on his palms. And as the danger grows, Hamou is forced to choose between all he knows and all he loves.
Black Crescent
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Author : Michael A. Gomez
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-03-21
Black Crescent written by Michael A. Gomez and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-21 with History categories.
Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, this book, first published in 2005, is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The record under slavery is examined, as is the post-slavery period into the twentieth century. The experiences vary, arguably due to some extent to the Old World context. Muslim revolts in Brazil are also discussed, especially in 1835, by way of a nuanced analysis. The second part of the book looks at the emergence of Islam among the African-descended in the United States in the twentieth century, with successive chapters on Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, with a view to explaining how orthodoxy arose from varied unorthodox roots.
The Black Crescent
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Author : Jane Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-08-03
The Black Crescent written by Jane Johnson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-03 with Fiction categories.
Bringing 1950s Morocco vividly to life, Jane Johnson's masterful new novel, The Black Crescent, is a gripping story of murder, magic and divided loyalties... Hamou Badi is born in a mountain village with the magical signs of the zouhry on his hands. In Morocco, the zouhry is a figure of legend, a child of both humans and djinns, capable of finding all manner of treasure: lost objects, hidden water. But instead, Hamou finds a body. This unsolved murder instils in Hamou a deep desire for order and justice: he trains as an officer of the law, working for the French in Casablanca. But the city is trapped in the turmoil of the nationalist uprising, and soon he will be forced to choose between all he knows and all he loves... Praise for Jane Johnson 'An irresistible story-teller' Barbara Erskine 'Page-turning stuff' The Times 'Jane Johnson writes with such grace' Carol Drinkwater 'Beautifully written' Mail on Sunday 'Johnson writes the sort of books you want to tell everyone about' Katie Fforde
Black Crescent
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Author : Michael A. Gomez
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-03-21
Black Crescent written by Michael A. Gomez and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-21 with History categories.
Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, this book, first published in 2005, is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The record under slavery is examined, as is the post-slavery period into the twentieth century. The experiences vary, arguably due to some extent to the Old World context. Muslim revolts in Brazil are also discussed, especially in 1835, by way of a nuanced analysis. The second part of the book looks at the emergence of Islam among the African-descended in the United States in the twentieth century, with successive chapters on Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, with a view to explaining how orthodoxy arose from varied unorthodox roots.
The Black Crescent
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Author : J. N. Jamieson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-04
The Black Crescent written by J. N. Jamieson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-04 with categories.
One dark, windy night, three 21st century US Coast Guard rescuers depart Florida's west coast on a mission. They enter the Gulf of Mexico and encounter a mysterious, misty black wall, and a force which pulls their boat through to the other side.They find an hour-glass-shaped island, called Utopia de Paz where the crew meets a friendly, older gent named Timo. He tells them they have landed in the 19th century. He's an amateur scientist and botanist who has studied this magical black crescent which only appears for thirty days every twenty years. You can pass through from one side to the other during that 30-day period.Brutal invaders occupy the island, Viking warriors, who sailed through the black crescent, landed on Utopia, and conquered its people. These invaders settled in the seaport on the south coast. Their longships surround the coastline to keep the citizens from escaping. Each month, the ships leave for three days, returning with food and more warriors. No one knows the location of their home base.The islanders live in fear. They want to take back their nation, but they do not know where to begin. Most are farmers, who lack fighting skills and weapons to go against a battle-hardened enemy armed with swords, spears, bows and arrows, and battle axes.The rescuers decide to help Timo and his people. They will go back home, load the boat* with rifles, ammo, and medical supplies, return to Utopia to drop everything off, and then head back to Florida before the black crescent disappears again. But their lives will soon change forever as they face adventure, tragedy, and romance on this island lost in time.
Crescent Over Another Horizon
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Author : Maria del Mar Logroño Narbona
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2015-09-15
Crescent Over Another Horizon written by Maria del Mar Logroño Narbona and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with Religion categories.
Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam’s unity as it evolved through plural formulations of identity, power, and belonging. Offering a Latino American perspective on a wider Islamic world, the editors overturn the conventional perception of Muslim communities in the New World, arguing that their characterization as “minorities” obscures the interplay of ethnicity and religion that continues to foster transnational ties. Bringing together studies of Iberian colonists, enslaved Africans, indentured South Asians, migrant Arabs, and Latino and Latin American converts, the volume captures the power-laden processes at work in religious conversion or resistance. Throughout each analysis—spanning times of inquisition, conquest, repressive nationalism, and anti-terror security protocols—the authors offer innovative frameworks to probe the ways in which racialized Islam has facilitated the building of new national identities while fostering a double-edged marginalization. The subjects of the essays transition from imperialism (with studies of morisco converts to Christianity, West African slave uprisings, and Muslim and Hindu South Asian indentured laborers in Dutch Suriname) to the contemporary Muslim presence in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Trinidad, completed by a timely examination of the United States, including Muslim communities in “Hispanicized” South Florida and the agency of Latina conversion. The result is a fresh perspective that opens new horizons for a vibrant range of fields.
Black Star Crescent Moon
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Author : Sohail Daulatzai
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2012
Black Star Crescent Moon written by Sohail Daulatzai and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Linking discontent and unrest in Harlem and Los Angeles to anticolonial revolution in Algeria, Egypt, and elsewhere, Black leaders in the United States have frequently looked to the anti-imperialist movements and antiracist rhetoric of the Muslim Third World for inspiration. Daulatzai maps the shared history between Black Muslims, Black radicals, and the Muslim Third World, showing how Black artists and activists imagined themselves not as national minorities but as part of a global majority, connected to larger communities of resistance. From publisher description.
Dark Crescent
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Author : Dev Jarrett
language : en
Publisher: Permuted Press
Release Date : 2015-06-09
Dark Crescent written by Dev Jarrett and has been published by Permuted Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-09 with Fiction categories.
If you could change the future, would you? Bud Primrose, assistant coach of a Little League team, gets smacked in the head with a line drive and wakes up in the hospital with a kind of second sight. If you saw a stranger’s death coming, would you try to save her? He sees others' deaths hours before they occur. When he uses this strange new ability to save a woman from a brutal murder, he becomes the thwarted next target. If you had the power, would you use it? Now he must do everything he can to save himself and the woman he loves from the razor-wielding maniac bent on payback.
The New Black Gods
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Author : Edward E. Curtis IV
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-23
The New Black Gods written by Edward E. Curtis IV and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-23 with Religion categories.
Taking the influential work of Arthur Huff Fauset as a starting point to break down the false dichotomy that exists between mainstream and marginal, a new generation of scholars offers fresh ideas for understanding the religious expressions of African Americans in the United States. Fauset's 1944 classic, Black Gods of the Metropolis, launched original methods and theories for thinking about African American religions as modern, cosmopolitan, and democratic. The essays in this collection show the diversity of African American religion in the wake of the Great Migration and consider the full field of African American religion from Pentecostalism to Black Judaism, Black Islam, and Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement. As a whole, they create a dynamic, humanistic, and thoroughly interdisciplinary understanding of African American religious history and life. This book is essential reading for anyone who studies the African American experience.
Butterflies Of The Lower Rio Grande Valley
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Author : Roland H. Wauer
language : en
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Butterflies Of The Lower Rio Grande Valley written by Roland H. Wauer and has been published by Big Earth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Butterflies categories.
Roland Wauer's "Butterflies of the Lower Rio Grande Valley" is the only field guide to cover all the reported species in what he calls the "number one butterfly area" in the country. This book includes a description of each species, when and where they can be found, a comparison of similar species, and additional remarks.