The earliest mosque still standing in something close to its original state. An excellently researched book, as you would expect from this publisher. Illustrated.
The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam
£60.00
Edition:Hardback978190994245530/06/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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Vintage Japanese crime fiction, by a master of the genre, first published in 1950: the head of a clan leaves a very peculiar will, and its reading is followed by a series of unusual murders.
The Inugami Curse
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