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In the i86os, an uprising by the Chinese Muslims of Gansu cut off Xinjiang from China proper and facilitated the…

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The Arab nationalists were given an unexpected boost at the end of the First World War, when the Ottoman Empire collapsed at the hands of Kemal Ataturk. The Caliphate that had, despite its declining powers, symbolized the spiritual unity of the Ummah for nearly fifteen centuries was suddenly replaced by a radically secular, ultranationalist Turkish

But the earliest overtly kingly burials in England – the ship mounds at Taplow and Snape; barrows at Benty Grange in Derbyshire, Ashfield in Oxfordshire and Broomfield in Essex; the sunken chamber at Prittlewell – are not found before the end of the sixth century or the beginning of the seventh.16 Does this mean that, ceremonially, formal acts of i