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There will be a booksigning on Saturday, Jan. 3 at 12 noon with Rappahannock’s John W. Kiser, author of “Commander of the Faithful: The Life and * Times of Emir Abd elKader - A Story of True Jihad”
The booksigning will be at Borders in Warrenton.
‘Though the history of Emir Abd el-Kader is virtually unknown today in the United States, it wasn’t always the case. In 1883 The New York Times hailed him as “one of the few great men of the century.”
During the previous 40 years Abd el-Kader had been a world figure, admired from the Great Plains to Moscow and Paris to Mecca: first as a chivalrous opponent of the French occupation of
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