Silk Road Books & Photos

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Anon

Afghanistan Today

Delhi, 61 pp, 1988. Celebrates ten years of the Communist Saur revolution. Publisher: New Delhi,Afghan Embassy . Includes 16 page pull out of Geneva Accords Text . 30 photos including that of a co-educational literacy class and an armed women’s militia unit on duty. Amongst other things, chapters deal with international relations, Literacy campaigns, Islam in Afghanistan and the place of Women. Paperback in good condition, pp 61 and pp 16 pull out.

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Anonymous

Afghanistan the Revolution Continues

Hardback 240 pages Planeta Publishers Moscow. 1984 Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the PDPA. Illustrated throughout with mainly colour photos.  Dari language.

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Anon

Souvenir d'Afghanistan: Kaboul, Kandahar, Galalabed, Laghmann, Pagman (rebound)

Place:Paris
Publisher:Etablissements Papeghin
Date:1925

Colour plates 45 of 48 present. The exceptional collection, from which these plates come, was published under the reign of Amir Amanullah Khan by the intellectual Mahmud Tarzi in 1925. The majority of the images in this album were taken by Afghan photographers. There are a range of architectural plates of buildings no longer in existence. Two versions were printed one in colour and another in black and white. This is the colour version. RARE

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Ansari, Sheikh Sadik Ali Sher Ali

Musalman races found in Sind Balochistan and Afghanistan

100 pages originally published in 1901 and reprinted in 1996 in Karachi.

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Anwar Raja

The Tragedy of Afghanistan A First Hand Account

Hardback first edition in dw mint. Verso Publishers. Raja Anwar was a Pakistani Socialist who was imprisoned after the Soviet invasion in the notorious Pul e Charki Prison from 1980-83. There Anwar met Khalqi and Parcham high flers who fell from favour into prison. Anwar won the confidence of his fellow communist prisoners and gained a frank insight into what went on under the regimes of Taraki, Amin and Karmal.

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Arghandawi, Abdul Ali

British Imperialism and Afghanistan's Struggle for Independence 1914-21

Hardback pages 403 1989.

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Asad, Mohammed

The Road to Mecca

A timeless spiritual classic, this gripping and insightful autobiography of an Austrian journalist, who fully immersed himself in the life and faith of the Islamic world, permanently reorients the reader's view of the world.
An Austrian Jewish man's account of travels in the Islamic World after the first world war and his conversion to Islam. The author was nearly shot in Afghanistan for becoming engrossed in looking at an attractive village lady. In Afghanistan during a debate on Islam, the author was told that he was a Muslim though he did not accept it.  This amongst other things resulted in the author considering what his actual personal beliefs were before deciding to embrace Islam. First Edition Ex library binding with the dw cut out and glued to the hardback cover.
He was born a Jew, Leopold Weiss, in Galicia in 1900, worked for a time as a correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung, embraced Islam in 1926 after four years of intermittent residence among the Arabs, and has lived since 1932 among the Muslims in India and Pakistan...
Within a few paragraphs of this extraordinary and beautifully written autobiography the reader recognizes he is immersed-profoundly so--in a timeless spiritual classic. 'Ultimate questions' do not vary over time; Asad's insightful elucidation of these concerns and his inspiring personal solutions deeply move both heart and mind.
In common with so many, Asad had "drifted into a matter of fact rejection of all institutional religions." He yearned for a life without the "carefully contained, artificial defenses which security-minded people love to build up around them," where he could find for himself "an approach to the spiritual order of things." He wondered if the European way of life-based on the betterment of economic and political conditions "was in its fundamentals, the only possible way." He had the courage to look elsewhere. The grandson of a Central European Orthodox rabbi, Asad found his first "quiet gladness" in Taoism where truths were as a window opening onto a long lost home far from "all narrowness and self-created fears." Asad regretted this "ivory tower" could not be lived in. Against his father's wishes he left the pursuit of a doctorate in Vienna to take up journalism. His fascinating travels took him to Jerusalem, Arabia, and India, and finally into service at the United Nations. In 1926 Asad embraced Islam. His account of his years in Arabia, his desert adventures, friendship with King Saud, and marriage there is truly gripping while being a great read set against the fascinating background following the first World War. An Ideal book as an Introduction to What is Islam and why so Many Westerners are turning to this faith.
1954 1st edition..

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Aslam Nadeem

Wasted Vigil

Hardback first edition in dust wrapper. FICTION.

£10

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Arnold Anthony

Afghanistan the Soviet Invasion in Perspective

Hardback 1987 pages 179 revised and enlarged edition. The author was a CIA analyst.

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Auboyer, Jeannine

Art of Afghanistan

The book includes photos of the Bamiyan Buddhas including a beautiful double page spread view of the Valley from a cave near the head of one of the Buddhas. 140 Black and white and colour photos with text. 1968, 70 pages of text hard cover with dw.