- History, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, Mecca (saudi arabia)
On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week. The same morning--the first of a new Muslim century--hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
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- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Yaroslav Trofimov
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 301
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Anchor Books, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307277732
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