1981 novel by Philip Nicholson, under the pen name A. J. Quinnell
This article is about the fiction novel. For other uses of the word Mahdi, see Mahdi (disambiguation).
The Mahdi
First US edition
Author
Philip Nicholson, writing as A. J. Quinnell
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Thriller
Publisher
Macmillan (UK) William Morrow & Co (US)
Publication date
1981 (UK) 1982 (US)
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
397 pgs (Hardcover)
ISBN
0688006469
OCLC
9736123
The Mahdi is a 1981 thriller novel by Philip Nicholson, writing as A. J. Quinnell.[1][2] The book was published in 1981 by Macmillan in the UK then in January 1982 by William Morrow & Co in the US and deals with political power struggles over a presumed Muslim prophet.[3][4]
^Simon, Reeva (1989). The Middle East in Crime Fiction: Mysteries, Spy Novels and Thrillers from 1916 to the 1980s. Lilian Barber Pr. pp. 61, 64. ISBN 0936508205.
^WILLIAMS, NICK B (Dec 27, 1981). "Bloody Sunday". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
^Simon, Reeva (2010). Spies and Holy Wars: The Middle East in 20th-Century Crime Fiction. University of Texas Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-0292723009.
^Labib, Tahar (2007). Imagining the Arab other. I. B. Tauris. pp. 261–273. ISBN 978-1845113841.
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