Daughters of Allah: Among Moslem Women in Kurdistan

No signatures. Small knock to corner of front board. Some rubbing to corners of dust-jacket and ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First edition in English. 191, [1] pages + frontispiece + 8 illustrations on 4 plate leaves. 2 full page maps within the pagination. Red papered boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 217 x 139mm. Top page edges dyed red. Text in English, translated from the Danish by Reginald Spink. "In 1957 the author was invited to take part in an archaeological expedition to the site of the projected Dokan Dam on the Little Zab river in Northern Iraq. Her responsibilities were ethnological, but instead of settling down with the expedition and visiting the Kurdish villages from the camp, she became the guest first of a local sheik and later of her interpreter's family. As a result, the doors of many Kurdish homes were opened to her that normally would have remained closed to foreigners, especially to a non-Moslem woman. She travelled widely among the mountain villages of Iraqi Kurdistan and was able to see from very close range the everyday life of the women of this strange and ancient race." - from dust-jacket blurb.

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Publisher: George Allen & Unwin

Year: (1960)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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