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This is the tale of what refuses to vanish on the other side of the Himalayas. The spirit of resistance, the faith, the soul of Tibet. It is the true story of women who join a group of refugees to cross, at night and on foot, the highest mountains of the world.
In 1826, Rifaa of Tahtawi, a theologian in Cairo, arrived in Paris. His mission was to discover the secret of the scientific prowess of the West and find out if it was possible to reconcile the tenets of Islam with a modern and progressive outlook. By the time he returned to Egypt in 1831, after a thorough study of Western science, military power and jurisprudence, he had come to the conclusion that nothing in the Koran opposed the modernization of the Muslim ...