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The Mists of Ramanna : The Legend That Was Lower Burma / by Aung-Thwin, Michael

Table of Contents: “…The Mon paradigm and the Kyanzittha legend --…”
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Communities of Saint Martin : Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours / by Farmer, Sharon A.

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The Eve of Spain : Myths of Origins in the History of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Conflict / by Grieve, Patricia E.

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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction / by Gellrich, Jesse M., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Problems of misreading: the "prologue" to The legend of good women --…”
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Afghanistan's Islam : From Conversion to the Taliban /

Table of Contents: “…McChesney -- Transporting knowledge in the Durrani Empire : two manuals of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi practice -- Waleed Ziad -- Islam, Shari'a and state-building under 'Abd al-Rahman Khan / Amin Tarzi -- Competing views of Pashtun tribalism, Islam & society in the Indo-Afghan borderlands / Sana Haroon -- Nationalism not Islam : the 'Awaken Youth' Party and Pashtun nationalism / Faridullah Bezhan -- Glossy global leadership : unpacking the multilingual religious thought of the Jihad / Simon Wolfgang Fuchs -- Female sainthood between legend and politics : the emergence of Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan / Ingeborg Baldauf -- When Muslims become feminists : Khana-yi Aman, Islam and Pashtunwali / Sonia Ahsan.…”
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Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Even as you and I : freak shows and lay discourse on spectacular deformity / Heather McHold -- Freaklore : the dissemination, fragmentation, and reinvention of the legend of Daniel Lambert, king of fat men / Joyce L. …”
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The Netherlands in a Nutshell : Highlights from Dutch History and Culture /

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