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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Prithvish Nag
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
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Category : Census
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Country reports, with reference to selected countries from all the continents.

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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Author: Hermann Kreutzmann
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004704361
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 763

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In Pamirian Crossroads and Beyond Hermann Kreutzmann offers insights in his fieldwork-based research in High Asia during four decades. A human-geographical perspective is pursued in which case studies about colonial and post-colonial boundary-making, exchange relations of mountain communities across international borders, the transformation of agricultural and pastoral practices and the effects of modernisation strategies in neighbouring countries are centred in the Hindukush, Wakhan Quadrangle, Pamirian Crossroads, Karakoram Mountains and Himalaya. Empirical evidence is augmented by in-depth archival research, thus allowing a perspective from the 19th to the 21st century. By shifting the focus to mountain peripheries and emphasising spaces in between urban centres of power in Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, and the Central Asian Republics different arenas of confrontation and effective changes emerge.

Author: University of Durham. Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Documentation Centre
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Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: British Library
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: Robert Bianchi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199711836
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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Each year, about two million pilgrims from over 100 countries converge on the Islamic holy city of Mecca for the hajj. While the hajj is first and foremost a religious festival, it is also very much a political event. No government can resist the temptation to manipulate the hajj for political and economic gain. Every large Muslim state has developed a comprehensive hajj policy and a powerful bureaucracy to enforce it. The Muslim world's leading multinational organization, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, has established the first international regime explicitly devoted to pilgrimage. Yet, Robert Bianchi argues, no secular or religious authority - national or international - can really control the hajj. State-sponsored pilgrimage management consistently backfires, giving government opponents valuable ammunition and allowing them to manipulate the symbols and controversies of the hajj to their own ends. Bianchi has been researching the hajj for over ten years and draws on interviews with and data from hajj directors in five Muslim countries (Pakistan, Malaysia, Turkey, Indonesia, and Nigeria), statistics from Saudi Arabian hajj authorities, as well as his personal experience as a pilgrim. The result is the most complete picture of the hajj available anywhere, and a wide-ranging work on Islam, politics, and power.

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Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 720

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Category : Lungs
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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