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050	0	0	_aDS375. _bH5. _cG366 2016
100	1		_aGammell, C. P. W.
245	1	4	_aThe pearl of Khorasan : _ba history of Herat / _cC. P. W. Gammell.
260			_aLondon : _bC. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., _c©2016.
300			_axxi, 464 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c23 cm.
504			_6“Includes bibliography”—(pages 413-434).
505			_aContents: Acknowledgements—Glossary—Introduction—1. Destruction and renewal : Herat in the shadow of the Mongols and beyond, 1221-1381—2. Herat in an age of high art, imperial favour and low politics, 1381-1510—3. Safavids to pashtuns and the decline of a Timurid Jewl, 1510-1747—4. Herat, the key to India : Herat, Khorasan’s broken pearl, 1747-1863—5. Herat in an emerging Afghanistan : isolated, sleepy and revolutionary, 1863-1978—6. Herat in a time of leftists, Islamists and opportunists, 1978-2001—Epilogue : Heart as it faces the future—Appendixes—Notes—Bibliography—Index.
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651		0	_aHerat (Afghanistan) – History.
651		0	_aAfghanistan – Herat.
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