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The German diplomat, Orientalist, and historian Max von Oppenheim (1860–1946) had published a memorandum as early as 1914 on ‘revolutionizing the Islamic territories of our enemies’ during the First World War, i.e. trying to persuade religious leaders in the Muslim world to call for a Holy War against colonial powers such as Britain and France.  […]

Vepkhist’qaosani, ‘The Knight in the Panther Skin’, is ‘the greatest classic of Georgian secular literature …  It is for Georgians what Dante’s Divina Commedia is for Italians’ (Rayfield, History of Georgian Literature, pp. 73, 81).  This is the first edition in French, although the translator insists: ‘Ce n’est donc point une traduction, c’est une imitation qui […]