Tajrid Sayf Al Himmah Li Stikhraj Ma Fi Dhimmat Al Dhimmah

Author : Luke Yarbrough
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479813230
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tajrid sayf al-himmah li-stikhraj ma fi dhimmat al-dhimmah written by Luke Yarbrough and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tajrid sayf al-himmah li-stikhraj ma fi dhimmat al-dhimmah is a scholarly, Arabic-only edition of a text by 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as The Sword of Ambition. In this work addressed to the Ayyubid sultan, al-Nabulusi argues against employing Coptic and Jewish officials, leaving no rhetorical stone unturned as he pours his deep knowledge of history, law, and literature into the work. An Arabic edition with English scholarly apparatus.

Author : Luke Yarbrough
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479854719
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tajrid sayf al-himmah li-stikhraj ma fi dhimmat al-dhimmah written by Luke Yarbrough and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tajrid sayf al-himmah li-stikhraj ma fi dhimmat al-dhimmah is a scholarly, Arabic-only edition of a text by 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as The Sword of Ambition. In this work addressed to the Ayyubid sultan, al-Nabulusi argues against employing Coptic and Jewish officials, leaving no rhetorical stone unturned as he pours his deep knowledge of history, law, and literature into the work.

Author : Tim Severin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781447212140
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Dreams: Saxon 1 written by Tim Severin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting premonition . . . A deadly betrayal. Frankia 780AD: Sigwulf, a minor Saxon prince, is saved from execution after his family is slaughtered by the ruthless King Offa of Mercia. Sigwulf is exiled to the Frankish court of King Carolus, the future Charlemagne. He gains the friendship of some - Count Hroudland, Carolus's powerful and ambitious nephew but - mysteriously - several attempts are made on Sigwulf's life. When he obtains a Book of Dreams, a rare text giving understanding to their meaning, he attracts the attention of Carolus himself. But the Book proves to be a slippery guide in a world of treachery and double dealing. Sent into Spain to spy on the Saracens, Sigwulf becomes caught between loyalties; either he honours his debt to new friends among the Saracens, or he serves his patron Count Hroudland in his quest for glory, gold and even the Grail itself . . .

Author : ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479806242
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Physician on the Nile written by ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence. Written by the polymath and physician ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, and intended for the Abbasid caliph al-Nāṣir, the first part of the book offers detailed descriptions of Egypt’s geography, plants, animals, and local cuisine, including a recipe for a giant picnic pie made with three entire roast lambs and dozens of chickens. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf’s text is also a pioneering work of ancient Egyptology, with detailed observations of Pharaonic monuments, sculptures, and mummies. An early and ardent champion of archaeological conservation, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf condemns the vandalism wrought by tomb-robbers and notes with distaste that Egyptian grocers price their goods with labels written on recycled mummy-wrappings. The book’s second half relates his horrific eyewitness account of the great famine that afflicted Egypt in the years 597–598/1200–1202. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf was a keen observer of humanity, and he offers vivid first-hand depictions of starvation, cannibalism, and a society in moral free-fall. A Physician on the Nile contains great diversity in a small compass, distinguished by the acute, humane, and ever-curious mind of its author. It is rare to be able to hear the voice of such a man responding so directly to novelty, beauty, and tragedy. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Author : Tim Severin
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330443166
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buccaneer written by Tim Severin and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirate Hector Lynch's swashbuckling journey continues in this rip-roaring seafaring adventure by one of Britain's bestselling historical fiction writersSailing across the Caribbean Hector Lynch falls into the hands of the notorious buccaneer, Captain John Coxon. Hector's two friends, Dan and Jacques, are released when Coxon mistakes Hector as the nephew of Sir Thomas Lynch the Governor of Jamaica - an error that Hector encourages. Coxon delivers Hector to Sir Henry Morgan, a bitter enemy of Governor Lynch. The captain is expecting to curry favour with Henry Morgan but is publicly humiliated at a Christmas ball held in Morgan's grand Jamaican home when it is revealed that Hector is not a member of the Governor's family. From then on, Coxon seeks to revenge himself on Hector and the young seafarer finds himself on the run again. On his new journey he falls in love for the first time, gets caught in a deadly hurricane and merely survives another shipwreck. Eventually he teams up again with his old friends Dan, Jacques and the group joins an expedition along the Panama coast. Their aim is to raid one of the biggest Spanish gold mines, but their plans are soon interfered by some angry Spaniards. . . and their clash has even more dramatic consequences . . .

Author : al-Ḥarīrī
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479810568
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impostures written by al-Ḥarīrī and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Books of the Year Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Category Fifty rogue’s tales translated fifty ways An itinerant con man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic literature. Impostures follows the roguish Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī in his adventures around the medieval Middle East—we encounter him impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a judge. In every escapade he shows himself to be a brilliant and persuasive wordsmith, composing poetry, palindromes, and riddles on the spot. Award-winning translator Michael Cooperson transforms Arabic wordplay into English wordplay of his own, using fifty different registers of English, from the distinctive literary styles of authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf, to global varieties of English including Cockney rhyming slang, Nigerian English, and Singaporean English. Featuring picaresque adventures and linguistic acrobatics, Impostures brings the spirit of this masterpiece of Arabic literature into English in a dazzling display of translation. An English-only edition.

Author : Tim Severin
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447262352
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freebooter written by Tim Severin and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freebooter by Tim Severin is the fifth swashbuckling adventure in the Pirate series. Hector Lynch, wanted by the authorities in London for piracy, has come to St Mary's Island, near Madagascar, on his search for the elusive Libertalia - a settlement where it is said that all are allowed to live freely. Here, he meets Captain Henry Avery, captain of the freebooter Fancy, which is sailing north through the Indian Ocean in search of a huge haul of gold. Avery requires a navigator, and persuades Hector and his friends Jacques and Jezreel to join the voyage, with the promise that they should be free to leave if they come across the fabled Libertalia on their travels. Although Hector is reluctant to return once more to a life of piracy, his desperation to find a place he can finally settle with his wife Maria draws him in. The Fancy joins forces with other notorious pirate ships, including Thomas Tew's Amity, and as they sail up through the Arabian Sea, they encounter a convoy of the Grand Mogul's ships, including the Ganj-i-Sawa'i, the 'Exceeding Treasure', laden with riches. Soon, Hector finds himself caught up in one of the most deadly plunders in history . . .

Author : Tim Severin
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330516051
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corsair written by Tim Severin and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corsair by Tim Severin is the first swashbuckling adventure in the Pirate series. 1677. On a late-summer's evening, two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. Seventeen-year-old Hector Lynch wakes to the sound of a pistol shot as the Barbary corsairs raid his village, and he and his sister are snatched. Separated from each other, Hector is sold at auction in Algiers, and thrown into a bewildering world where life is cheap and only the quick-witted survive. In North Africa, Hector befriends fellow captive Dan, a Miskito Indian from the Caribbean, and the two men convert to Islam to escape the horrors of the slave barracks - only to become victims of the deadly warfare of the Mediterranean. Serving aboard a Turkish ship, their vessel is sunk at sea and by a savage twist of fortune they are chained to the oar bench of a French galley. Desperate to find his sister, Hector finally stumbles on the chilling truth of her fate when he and Dan are shipwrecked on the coast of Morocco.

Author : د. صفية علية
Publisher : مركز الكتاب الأكاديمي
ISBN 13 : 9957352768
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book أفآق النص الأدبي ضمن العولمة written by د. صفية علية and published by مركز الكتاب الأكاديمي . This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy Severin
Publisher : Peter Bedrick Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tracking Marco Polo written by Timothy Severin and published by Peter Bedrick Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the great explorer's journals as a guide, Severin retraces his route from Venice to the Kindu Kush on motorcycle.