Friday essay: how a Bengali book in Broken Hill sheds new light on Australian history
- Written by Samia Khatun, Senior Lecturer, SOAS, University of London
The large book bearing a handwritten English label, 'The Holy Koran', was not a Quran, but a 500-page volume of Bengali Sufi poetry. Samia KhatunSome 1,000 kilometres inland from Sydney, over the Blue Mountains, past the trees that drink the tributaries of the Darling River, there stands a little, red mosque. It marks where the desert begins.
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