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The Janissaries (Saqi Essentials) by Godfrey Goodwin
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Godfrey Goodwin [Goodwin, Godfrey]

The Aftermath of a Century of Conquests Süleyman’s death caused concern to the Grand Vezir, Sokollu Mehmet Pasha, who concealed it from the janissaries until the heir was brought post-haste ...
( Category: Middle East November 15,2017 )
The History of al-Tabari Vol. 6: Muhammad at Mecca by W. Montgomery Watt & M. V. McDonald
mobi |eng | 1987-08-01 | Author:W. Montgomery Watt & M. V. McDonald

Khadījah the First to Believe in the Messenger of God Abū Ja'far (al-Ṭabarī): God commanded his Prophet to rise up and to warn his people that God would punish them ...
( Category: Middle East November 15,2017 )
The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam (Emblems of Antiquity) by G.W. Bowersock
mobi |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:G.W. Bowersock

7 THE ETHIOPIAN INVASION OF 525 If Cosmas can be trusted in reporting that he was present at Adulis twenty-five years before he was writing, he was there in 523 ...
( Category: Middle East November 15,2017 )
Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Robert Baer

IF ONLY EGYPT, which spawned the Brotherhood, had done the same. Instead, it let things drift and paid the price. Even after Nasser banned the Brothers in 1954, al-Azhar University ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 13,2017 )
Mystery of the Magi by Dwight Longenecker
epub |eng | 2017-09-30 | Author:Dwight Longenecker

they were clearly already in a process of metamorphosis [from a nomadic to a settled civilization] for they had acquired possessions that were not easily transported in a nomadic life. ...
( Category: History November 13,2017 )
Shi'i Islam: An Introduction (Introduction to Religion) by Haider Najam
azw3 |eng | 2014-08-31 | Author:Haider, Najam [Haider, Najam]

9 See Chapter 2 for a discussion of the Zaydī Imāmate. Many of these qualities are also detailed in Haykel, Revival, 26–31. 10 Here Haykel translates the Arabic word da‘wa ...
( Category: Middle East November 13,2017 )
Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire by Peirce Leslie
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Peirce, Leslie [Peirce, Leslie]

While the foundation’s users doubtless took care to conduct themselves with circumspection, the Haseki complex was rarely silent. In warm weather, the voices of children reciting their lessons might waft ...
( Category: Middle East November 13,2017 )
History on Trial by Deborah Lipstadt
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Deborah Lipstadt

TWELVE FIGHTING WORDS "They clamor 'Ours! Ours! Ours!' when hoards of gold are uncovered. And then when antisemitism increases and the inevitable mindless pogroms occur, they ask with genuine surprise: ...
( Category: World November 13,2017 )
Enclosure by Fields Gary;
epub |eng | | Author:Fields, Gary;

Labor is not only the force which binds man to the soil and by which possession of the soil is acquired; it is also the basic energy for creation of ...
( Category: Americas November 12,2017 )
Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard by Nicholas Jubber
epub |eng | 2010-04-13 | Author:Nicholas Jubber

This was as far as Tahmineh read. She closed the book slowly, a palm on the top cover, her face stiff. Her bottom lip disappeared under her top teeth and ...
( Category: Travel Writing November 9,2017 )
The Road to Fatima Gate: The Beirut Spring, the Rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian War Against Israel by Michael Totten
epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Michael Totten [Totten, Michael]

CHAPTER TWELVE the siege of ain ebel The Western world should either defend us, or change its name. —A LEBANESE CHRISTIAN LEADER DURING THE CIVIL WAR A mid the south’s ...
( Category: Middle East November 9,2017 )
Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell
epub |eng | 2006-11-09 | Author:Georgina Howell

I wonder, if I could choose, whether I would not have the past year again, for the wonder it held, and bear the sorrow again. And dearest, not least of ...
( Category: Specific Groups November 9,2017 )
The Enemy at the Gate by Andrew. Wheatcroft
epub |eng | 2009-03-05 | Author:Andrew. Wheatcroft [Wheatcroft, Andrew.]

046501374-text.qxd:Layout 1 2/17/09 11:08 AM Page 188 9 A Holy War? When dawn broke on Monday 13 September 1683 the Turkish host had already vanished. A few unfortunate miners stumbling ...
( Category: Middle East November 8,2017 )
Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire by Parvaneh. Pourshariati
epub |eng | 2008-02-02 | Author:Parvaneh. Pourshariati [Pourshariati, Parvaneh.]

CHAPTER 3: ARAB CONQUEST frontier regions of Jurj¯an by name.”1466 Suwayd then “allocated the Turks of Dihist¯an [to look after] them, removing the tribute from those who remained to defend ...
( Category: Middle East November 8,2017 )
God's War on Terror: Islam, Prophecy and the Bible by Walid Shoebat & Joel Richardson
epub |eng | 2008-07-21 | Author:Walid Shoebat & Joel Richardson [Shoebat, Walid]

ARMAGEDDON AND LEBANON (PSALM 29) In Psalm 29 we find a clear connection between the Battle of Armageddon and the nation of Lebanon: “The voice of the Lord breaks the ...
( Category: Theology November 8,2017 )

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