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Unbelievers, or 'The Moor'

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Global Islamic influence & the deep present.

"Unbelievers" is a thought-provoking exploration of the influence of Islamic and Arabic history on different parts of the world. It offers unique insights into the often-overlooked contributions made by Islamic culture to global history and encourages readers to view the world through a wider lens. Additionally, the book highlights the importance of understanding both the past and the present in order to fully appreciate the complexity of contemporary issues.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Unbelievers, or 'The Moor'

by John Mateer
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ISBN: 9781848612815
Authors: John Mateer
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Date of Publication: 2013-10-02
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Travel
Related Topics: European History, World History, Anthropology, History, Memoir, Travelogue
Goodreads rating: 3.0
(rated by 2 readers)

Description

World Literature Today has described John Mateer as "the most recent reincarnation of of the international poet". Born in South Africa, John Mateer has for the past two decades been documenting the world seen from the Indian Ocean edge of Australia, travelling frequently to Asia, Europe and elsewhere. Unbelievers or 'The Moor', like his previous surveys of the visages of the Portuguese Empire in Southern Barbarians and of his memories of South Africa in Ex-White-described by novelist J.M. Coetzee as "rolling back the tide of forgetting"-recovers aspects of the hidden past that haunt our present. In Unbelievers, Mateer seeks out evidence of the importance of the Islamic and Arabic history in places as diverse as Dubai, Seville, Cairo and the Portuguese village of Monsanto. He is not only interested in the past but in the deep present, its poetics.
 

Global Islamic influence & the deep present.

"Unbelievers" is a thought-provoking exploration of the influence of Islamic and Arabic history on different parts of the world. It offers unique insights into the often-overlooked contributions made by Islamic culture to global history and encourages readers to view the world through a wider lens. Additionally, the book highlights the importance of understanding both the past and the present in order to fully appreciate the complexity of contemporary issues.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.