Adventures In Arabia Among The Bedouins Druses Whirling Dervishes Yezidee Devil Worshipers

Author : William Seabrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Arabia Among the Bedouins, Druses, Whirling Dervishes, & Yezidee Devil Worshipers written by William Seabrook and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Seabrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Arabia Among the Bedouins, Druses, Whirling Dervishes, & Yezidee Devil Worshipers written by William Seabrook and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Seabrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Arabia Among the Bedouins, Druses, Whirling Dervishes, & Yezidee Devil Worshipers written by William Seabrook and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William B. Seabrook
Publisher : Gorgias PressLlc
ISBN 13 : 9781593335977
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Arabia written by William B. Seabrook and published by Gorgias PressLlc. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with drawings and photographs, this travelogue of William Seabrook contains his reminiscences among several Middle Eastern cultures. As a writer and would-be traveler, Seabrook was particularly drawn to the Middle East, the "Arabia" of his book, an area not always safe for non-Muslims to travel in his day. Written with all the voice and presence of an adventurer, he narrates his time with the Bedouins, the Druses, Dervishes, and Yezidees. Always with a penchant for the unusual, he chronicles the exotic and unexpected during his exciting journey; the golden calf among the Druses and the devil worship of the Yezidees make fine examples. As a period piece and a snapshot of early twentieth-century Arabic culture, this travel book still has a draw for those interested in the Middle East.

Author : William Seabrook
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Arabia written by William Seabrook and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Buehler Seabrook
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Adventures in Arabia written by William Buehler Seabrook and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Seabrook
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book Adventures in Arabia written by William Seabrook and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : T. May Stone
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476648263
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Great American Zombie written by T. May Stone and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-08-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the human understanding of life and death, the zombie figure represents a fragmentation of personhood. From its earliest appearances in literature, the zombie characterized a human being that was no longer an indivisible whole, embodying the ontological debate over which elements of personhood are most uniquely human. Through its literary evolution, the zombie's missing element gradually approached a finer definition, as narratives moved beyond highlighting metaphysically opaque concepts like "soul" or "will." Studying over a century of American literary history, this book explores how zombies translate cultural concepts and definitions of personhood. Chapters detail how literary zombies have long presented narratives of American cultural self-examination.

Author : Priya Satia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199715985
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spies in Arabia written by Priya Satia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the twentieth century, British intelligence agents began to venture in increasing numbers to the Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire, a region of crucial geopolitical importance spanning present-day Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. They were drawn by the twin objectives of securing the land route to India and finding adventure and spiritualism in a mysterious and ancient land. But these competing desires created a dilemma: how were they to discreetly and patriotically gather facts in a region they were drawn to for its legendary inscrutability and by the promise of fame and escape from Britain? In this groundbreaking book, Priya Satia tracks the intelligence community's tactical grappling with this problem and the myriad cultural, institutional, and political consequences of their methodological choices during and after the Great War. She tells the story of how an imperial state in thrall to the cultural notions of equivocal agents and beset by an equally captivated and increasingly assertive mass democracy invented a wholly new style of "covert empire" centered on the world's first brutal aerial surveillance regime in Iraq. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources--from the fictional to the recently declassified--this book explains how Britons reconciled genuine ethical scruples with the actual violence of their Middle Eastern empire. As it vividly demonstrates how imperialism was made fit for an increasingly democratic and anti-imperial world, what emerges is a new interpretation of the military, cultural, and political legacies of the Great War and of the British Empire in the twentieth century. Unpacking the romantic fascination with "Arabia" as the land of espionage, Spies in Arabia presents a stark tale of poetic ambition, war, terror, and failed redemption--and the prehistory of our present discontents.

Author : Nicholas Swift
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780991452
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirror of the Free written by Nicholas Swift and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The images on the Marseille Tarot cards started out as illustrations of Sumero-Bablyonian myths, preserved through the centuries on cylinder seals. They were copied by people who didn't understand them but who also had access to some form, whether written or oral, of the wisdom encoded in those myths and in Bible stories. That wisdom is identical with Sufi teachings as espoused by teachers like Ibn al 'Arabi, Rumi, and others, including Gurdjieff and his teachings about the enneagram. The myths and stories are decoded in this book using the multiple meanings conveyed by Arabic consonantal word roots and by reference to those doctrines and to modern discoveries about conditioning and the hemispheric specialization of the brain. Arabic is the closest existing descendant of the ancient Protosemitic language. The Kabbalah, long rumoured to be linked to the Tarot, is shown to come from the same sources, and originally had eight, not ten, sefiroth. The visual evidence alone is overwhelming: the mystery of where the Tarot comes from has been definitively solved.