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Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the Twentieth Century (Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies) by Anita Norich
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Anita Norich

In my long robe, With my flaming, yellow patch, With my proud gait, At my own command— I return to the ghetto. 7. RICHARD FEIN, 1987 Good night, wide world, ...
( Category: World March 11,2018 )
The Tail Wags the Dog by Efraim Karsh
epub |eng | 2015-04-23 | Author:Efraim Karsh

7. THE LIMITS TO POWER No regional dispute has attracted a longer and more sustained international intervention than the Arab-Israeli conflict, and few conflicts have been more impervious to outside ...
( Category: World March 11,2018 )
The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Elaine Weiss

* * * Shortly past noon Andrew Todd rapped his gavel, calling the Tennessee Senate into extraordinary session. At the same time, on the south side of the Capitol, Seth ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 11,2018 )
A Jew Among Romans by Frederic Raphael
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Frederic Raphael [Raphael, Frederic]

a Damascus, the capital of modern Syria, was the locus of the blood libel that, in 1840, was seconded by the French consul in the city. b Unlike Nero’s Golden ...
( Category: World March 11,2018 )
William II (Penguin Monarchs) by John Gillingham
epub |eng | 2015-07-28 | Author:John Gillingham

5 Normandy, Maine and Britain Winning the war of 1088 did not mean that Rufus’s brother was no longer dangerous. Odo of Bayeux – that ‘fire-breathing dragon’, as Orderic called ...
( Category: Historical March 11,2018 )
The Gadfly by Ethel Voynich
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-03-26 | Author:Ethel Voynich

At the first words the Gad­fly tore his hand from Gemma’s and shrank away with a stifled groan. She clasped both hands round his arm and pressed it firmly, as ...
( Category: Mystery March 11,2018 )
Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-10-27 | Author:Thomas De Quincey

He answered to the con­di­tions in every one of the items:—1, a mon­ster he was; 2, dread­ful; 3, shape­less; 4, huge; 5, who had lost an eye. But why should ...
( Category: Classics March 11,2018 )
The Lady of the Barge by W. W. Jacobs
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:W. W. Jacobs

Captain Rogers A man came slowly over the old stone bridge, and averting his gaze from the dark river with its silent craft, looked with some satisfaction toward the feeble ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar March 11,2018 )
Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry Into Islam's Obscure Origins by Robert Spencer
epub |eng | 2012-04-22 | Author:Robert Spencer [Spencer, Robert]

The Unchanging Qur'an Changes The Qur'an: Muhammad's Book? The Qur'an is Muhammad's foremost legacy and the primary source for knowledge of Islamic doctrine and (to a lesser degree) history. According ...
( Category: Middle East March 11,2018 )
Onward Muslim Soldiers by Robert Spencer
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Spencer [Spencer, Robert]

Chapter Seven THE MODERN MYTH OF ISLAMIC TOLERANCE The Fact of Modern Islamic Intolerance Muslim Spain: the myth MUSLIM SPAIN IS A BEACON of hope in a fractious and frightened ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 11,2018 )
The Venture of Islam, Volume 3: The Gunpower Empires and Modern Times by Marshall G. S. Hodgson
epub |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:Marshall G. S. Hodgson [Hodgson, Marshall G. S.]

The completion of the European world conquest Nationalism in the last decades of the century was a growing force in the main Muslim centres, and after 1905 was to dominate ...
( Category: Islam March 11,2018 )
The Venture of Islam, Volume 2: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods by Marshall G. S. Hodgson
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:Marshall G. S. Hodgson [Hodgson, Marshall G. S.]

The lessons Sa’dî taught and the wisdom he preached made no pretence to originality. Indeed, wisdom is seldom original. What Sa’dî aimed to do was to put the old truths ...
( Category: Islam March 11,2018 )
The Venture of Islam, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam: 001 by Marshall G. S. Hodgson
epub |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:Marshall G. S. Hodgson [Hodgson, Marshall G. S.]

The two sides in this schism have subsequently been labelled, conventionally, ‘Snnuîs’ and ‘Shî‘îs’. Each side adopted a historical position in justification of its present attitude. The Shî‘îs came to ...
( Category: Islam March 11,2018 )
The Clerics of Islam by Nabil Mouline
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Nabil Mouline [Mouline, Nabil]

7 RAISING THE VEIL ON THE CONDITIONS OF ACCESS TO THE RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT FROM SELF-MADE MEN TO HEIRS: THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF THE ULAMA The predication of Muhammad ibn Abd ...
( Category: Middle East March 11,2018 )
The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims by Mustafa Akyol
epub |eng | 2017-02-14 | Author:Mustafa Akyol

CHAPTER SEVEN ISLAMIC CHRISTOLOGY “Islam recognized the particular function of Christ, which … differed from that of other prophets who usually brought a law or reformed a previous one, by ...
( Category: History March 11,2018 )

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