Under the Cloak of History: The Kherqa-ye Sharif from Faizabad to Kandahar
Bette Dam
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Fabrizio Foschini
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These are hard times for holy shrines in many Muslim countries. Often targeted by fundamentalist militants who reject practices of popular religious devotion as un-Islamic, many ancient and famous ziarats have been destroyed or damaged. The last on the list seems to have been the tomb of Yunus (Jonah) near Mosul, Iraq, reportedly blown up […]
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