By: Baron, Beth / Stanford University Press
Price: $21.23
Publisher:
California, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2014
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Not Signed
Seller ID: 158743
ISBN: 0804791384
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine (see description)
------------softcover, about 6 x 9 inches, a Near Fine copy, 245 pages, b&w photos, ---"On a sweltering June morning in 1933 a fifteen-year-old Muslim orphan girl refused to rise in a show of respect for her elders at her Christian missionary school in Port Said. Her intransigence led to a beating—and to the end of most foreign missions in Egypt—and contributed to the rise of Islamist organizations. Turkiyya Hasan left the Swedish Salaam Mission with scratches on her legs and a suitcase of evidence of missionary misdeeds. Her story hit a nerve among Egyptians, and news of the beating ...
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