Allah O Akbar: A Journey through Militant Islam FROM THE PUBLISHER
'Allah O Akbar' begins the call to prayer that resonates from minarets in towns and villages from Sinkiang to Morocco, from Paris to Timbuktu. Wherever in the world you are, the message is the same: 'God is Great'. It is also, however, the cry of fundamentalists throughout the lands of the faithful.
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In 1994 the London art book publisher Phaidon released a book called Allah O Akbar: A Journey Through Militant Islam, a 300-page compilation of stunning black-and-white photographs by an Iranian Muslim photographer known simply as Abbas.
A member of Magnum, the prestigious European photographic agency, Abbas began photographing events related to the Iranian revolution of 1978. Ultimately he spent seven years and traveled to 29 countries on four continents in order to capture the development of the militant, fundamentalist Islamic movement as it swept across the Islamic world. Abbas has also written a brisk first-person narrative of the culture of Islam. The book includes photographs taken in Egypt, Algeria, Israel, Palestine, black Africa, Central Asia, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan in addition to striking pictures of Islamic communities in Europe and the U.S.
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