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False Self The Life of Masud Khan


Free Download False Self: The Life of Masud Khan By Linda B. Hopkins
2008 | 552 Pages | ISBN: 1855756285 | PDF | 20 MB
This is the definitive biography of one of the most engaging figures of British psychoanalysis. M. Masud R. Khan (1924-1989) exposed through his candor and scandalous behavior the bigotry of his proponents turned detractors. Khan’s subsequent downfall, which is powerfully narrated in this biography, offers interesting insights not only into Khan’s psychic fragility but into the world of intrigues and deceptions pervasive in the psychoanalytic community of the time.Winner of the 2007 Gradiva Award for the advancement of Psychoanalysis and the 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic scholarship.

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Genghis Khan The Ruthless Legacy, Great Mongol Empire, and The Making of the Modern World [Audiobook]


Free Download Cameron White, Jim D. Johnston (Narrator), "Genghis Khan: The Ruthless Legacy, Great Mongol Empire, and The Making of the Modern World"
English | ISBN: 9798868690419 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:20:00 | 123 MB
It is rare for an individual in history to have successfully made such a mark on their world that people are still talking about them centuries after their death. When you consider the number of people that have existed throughout the millennia that have wielded some kind of power, it takes a remarkable individual to stand out from the crowd.
Nevertheless, one such individual did manage to achieve this near-impossible feat of attaining everlasting fame: Genghis Khan. This single person from the relative confines of Mongolia is credited with creating one of the most feared empires that ever existed. When you learn more about his story, the very fact that he achieved so much becomes even more remarkable than you may have at first thought.

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Kalka River 1223 Genghiz Khan’s Mongols invade Russia


Free Download Viacheslav Shpakovsky, Victor Korolkov, "Kalka River 1223: Genghiz Khan’s Mongols invade Russia"
English | 2001 | pages: 92 | ISBN: 1841762334, 0275988457 | PDF | 22,1 mb
Osprey’s study of the Mongols’ invasion of Russia. In 1221, Genghiz, Great Khan of the Mongols, ordered an armed reconnaissance expedition into Russia commanded by Sübodei Bahadur and Jebei Noyon ‘The Arrow’. The consequences for the history of Europe were incalculable. The decisive Mongol victory at Kalka River, opened up vast regions of Russia and Eastern Europe to Mongol conquest. Genghiz ordered his victorious army to return eastwards, delaying the final cataclysm by a few years. Genghiz died in 1227, but within 10 years his son Ögedei ordered a return to Russia to complete the conquest. This title details the events of the dramatic Kalka River campaign.

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Islam as Critique Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity (Islam of the Global West)


Free Download Khurram Hussain, "Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity (Islam of the Global West)"
English | 2020 | pages: 229 | ISBN: 135024886X, 1350006335 | PDF | 10,0 mb
What would it mean to imagine Islam as an immanent critique of the West? Sayyid Ahmad Khan lived in a time of great tribulation for Muslim India under British rule. By examining Khan’s work as a critical expression of modernity rooted in the Muslim experience of it, Islam as Critique argues that Khan is essential to understanding the problematics of modern Islam and its relationship to the West. The book re-imagines Islam as an interpretive strategy for investigating the modern condition, and as an engaged alternative to mainstream Western thought. Using the life and work of nineteenth-century Indian Muslim polymath Khan (1817-1898), it identifies Muslims as a viable resource for both critical intervention in important ethical debates of our times and as legitimate participants in humanistic discourses that underpin a just global order. Islam as Critique locates Khan within a broader strain in modern Islamic thought that is neither a rejection of the West, nor a wholesale acceptance of it. The author calls this "Critical Islam". By bringing Khan’s critical engagement with modernity into conversation with similar critical analyses of the modern by Reinhold Niebuhr, Hannah Arendt, and Alasdair MacIntyre, the author shows how Islam can be read as critique.

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Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet In Search of a Legendary Armada


Free Download James P. Delgado, "Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada"
English | 2010 | pages: 241 | ISBN: 0520265858, 0520259769 | PDF | 3,1 mb
In 1279, near what is now Hong Kong, Mongol ruler Khubilai Khan fulfilled the dream of his grandfather, Genghis Khan, by conquering China. The Grand Khan now ruled the largest empire the world has ever seen―one that stretched from the China Sea to the plains of Hungary. He also inherited the world’s largest navy―more than seven hundred ships. Yet within fifteen years, Khubilai Khan’s massive fleet was gone. What actually happened to the Mongol navy, considered for seven centuries to be little more than legend, has finally been revealed. Renowned archaeologist and historian James P. Delgado has gone diving with a Japanese team currently studying the remains of the Khan’s lost fleet. Drawing from diverse sources―sunken ships, hand-painted scrolls, drowned bodies, and historical and literary records― in this gripping account that moves deftly between the present and the past, Delgado pieces together the fascinating tale of Khubilai Khan’s maritime forays and unravels one of history’s greatest mysteries: What sank the great Mongol fleet?

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