The Great Battle of Badr

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"The Great Battle of Badr" by Mohammad Ahmed Bashumail, Islamic Book Service, in English, hardback w/ dustjacket, 215 pages. Published by "Abdul Moin for Islamic Book Services" in Darya Ganj New Delhi, and printed at: "Noida Printing Press" at Noida, (Distt. Ghaziabad) U.P. First published (in Arabic c. 1963?), in English in India in 1992, with reprints and new prefaces in 1996, and 1997 (& possibly reprinted in 1999). This book is a translation of the original Arabic "Ghazwat Badr al-Kubra" into English. Contents: Foreword - by Syed Abul A`la' Maududi; Foreword to the third Arabic edition (but in English): The Triumph of Islam in the Battle of Badr - by General Mahmud S*** Khattab (of Iraq); Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Badr; Chapter 1 - Before the Great Encounter (18 pages); Chpt. 2 - The Migration (38 pgs); Chpt 3 - The Prophet at Madinah (15 pgs); Chpt 4 - The Battle (50 pgs); Chpt 5 - The Aftermath (40 pgs); Chpt 6 - The Epilogue (40 pgs); Appendix I - Illustrations of the Battlefield of Badr (very poor quality, fuzzy b/w photographs); Appendix II--A Selected Bibliography (62 books referenced).