West Asia's lost minorities: Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms

in the news | December 28, 2014

Business Standard

Gerard Russell:

In his lively new book, Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, Gerard Russell chronicles the emergence and survival of religious minorities like the Yazidis that have been overshadowed by Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the dominant Abrahamic religions of West Asia.

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