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  1. Once Upon a Time in Iran (2006)

    aka: Pilgrimage to Karbala

    Director
    Kevin Sim
    Producer
    Rebecca Dobbs
    Subject
    Politics & government; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £12.99

    In the summer of 2006,a bus full of pilgrims left Tehran in Iran on the dangerous journey to Karbala in Iraq. ONCE UPON A TIME IN IRAN follows this breath-taking journey - a spiritual and emotional...

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  2. European Muslims and Eastern Christians: The Broken Mirrors (2006)

    aka: Broken Mirrors: European Muslims, Eastern Christians

    Director
    Jacques Debs
    Producer
    Mesut Tufan
    Subject
    Religious studies
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 133 minutes), $29.95

    For centuries, Muslims in Europe and Christians in the Middle East have lived side by side in the old Ottoman Empire, despite experiencing periodic setbacks, failures, and in the worst cases, genocide. Using...

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  3. Mahomet (2003)

    aka: Mohammed

    Subject
    History; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 290 minutes), £27.00

    A documentary series of five 52-minute episodes on the genesis of Islam, the life of the Prophet, the Koran, the Sunna, the Haddith, the emergence of the commentaries and Muslim rights, but also the Arabs,...

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  4. Sultan Baybars’ Qur’An (2002)

    Subject
    Art; Librarianship; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, CD-ROM (Hybrid), £12.95

    The Royal Mamluk Baybars’ Qur’an is recognised as the masterpiece of its time. It was produced in Cairo during 1304-6 and is called after the Mamluk ruler Baybar II who commissioned it. The calligraphic...

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  5. Ceremonie Qawwali (2002)

    Subject
    Music; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 77 minutes), £13.99 (inclusive)

    The Sufis are a mystical sect of Islam and qawwali is the form of music they have developed in India and Pakistan, since the 13th century. The central focus of the music is the intensity of feeling in the...

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  6. Sudan: The Secret Story (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

    Examines the reasons behind civil war and successive famines in south Sudan, revealing evidence of geneocide by the Sudanese regime to eradicate the black, non-Islamic peoples of the region with the aim of...

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  7. Hidden Faces (1996 Film, Video)

    Director
    Claire Hunt; Kim Longinotto
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Originally intended as a film about feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi, the film is portrayal of the lives of modern Egyptian women in Islamic society. Safaa Fathay, a young Egyptian woman living in Paris,...

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  8. Time to Woo, A (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Patti Langton
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The local bride fair of the Ait Haddidu people, who live in the Atlas mountains of Morocco, is a gathering to which women flock in search of a husband. For divorcee Fadma it may be a last chance and for...

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  9. Muslims in Britain (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Muslim families have been living in Britain for hundreds of years. Many of today’s Muslim communities first came to Britain after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 with large-scale Muslim immigration...

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  10. Publish and Be Damned (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 1999 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Explores the role of the fatwa in Islam in the wake of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1989 fatwa against author Salman Rushdie. Looks at the way in which varying cultural interpretations are influencing cultural...

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