Iqbal Ali Shah (1894–1969)
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- Gangbare naam
- Ali Shah, Iqbal
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Ali Shah, Sirdar Iqbal
- Geboortedatum
- 1894-07-12
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1969-11-04
- Graflocatie
- Brookwood, Woking, Surrey, England, UK
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- India
- Geboorteplaats
- Sardhana, India
- Plaats van overlijden
- Tangier, Morocco
- Woonplaatsen
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Sardhana, Uttar Pradesh, India
Tangier, Morocco - Opleiding
- Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - Beroepen
- author
diplomat
savant - Relaties
- Shah, Saira Elizabeth Luiza (wife)
Shah, Idries (son)
Shah, Amina (daughter)
Ali-Shah, Omar (son)
Begum, Bibi Mehmooda (sister)
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- #145,671
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- 3.6
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- 32
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The writer of Afghan origin, Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, wrote in English this book of travels and stories in the early thirties, when the First World War was "the Great War" and the political geography of the Middle East was different from the current one. . This is one of the interesting points of this book, since one can contemplate from a historical perspective the origins of many conflicts and problems that have developed in these sixty years: the Jewish settlements in Palestine, the first attempts of Muslim unity, Arabia before the oil boom. With his usual mastery, the author describes the religious fervor of the Muslim festivals, the peculiarities of the nomadic populations of Transjordania, the difficulties encountered by the English to build roads, the rogues of Port Said, the bandits of the desert, the authentic East and the complications of riding on a Syrian camel.… (meer)