Middle Eastern
epub |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Ibn Fadlan [Ibn Fadlān]

4. Zuhrī on Viking ships c. 1160 Abū ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī (d. between 1154 and 1161) was an Andalusian cosmographer about whom almost nothing is known. ...
( Category: Anthologies April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Fadlan, Ibn [Fadlan, Ibn]

4. Zuhrī on Viking ships c. 1160 Abū ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī (d. between 1154 and 1161) was an Andalusian cosmographer about whom almost nothing is known. ...
( Category: Anthologies April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Ferdowsi, Abolqasem [Ferdowsi, Abolqasem]

Once more Rostam spoke: “Forget this injustice, prince. Don’t sully my name and make your own soul contemptible; only evil will come of this struggle. I shall give you a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-08-28 | Author:Ferdowsi, Abolqasem [Ferdowsi, Abolqasem]

Rostam Spies on Sohrab The sun withdrew from the world, and dark night spread her troops across the plain. Eager to observe the enemy, Rostam came before Kavus. He said, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-14 | Author:Abu l-Ala al-Maarri

It is better for a single man to be his own servant than having slaves enter his house. Often they compel their owner to beat them or to guard himself ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-13 | Author:Colin Falconer [Falconer, Colin]

CHAPTER 30 A HOT MORNING, a white sun leaching the pink from the stone walls of the Old City and the blue from the sky. Henry Talbot squinted against the ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Lichtheim, Miriam, Lopriano, Antonio

NOTES 1. The terms “horizon” and horizon-dwellers” were studied by Kuentz in BIFAO, 17 (1920), 121-190, where he assembled evidence to show that “lightland,” referred to the remote eastern regions ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Allen, Roger, al-Muwaylihi, Muhammad

ʿĪsā ibn Hishām said: These stupid jokes and vulgarities set me all aquiver, so I stopped listening and looked round in other directions. I saw all the clerks talking and ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-30 | Author:Rippin, Andrew; Mojaddedi, Jawid; & Jawid Mojaddedi

( Category: Quran March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-14 | Author:Elsa Marston

( Category: Short Stories March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2000-11-01 | Author:RUTH R. WISSE

The Yiddish and Hebrew Diarists Yiddish was the European language most directly affected by Nazi rule. Although linguistic assimilation had become the norm by the 1930s among Jews in western ...
( Category: Jewish March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-10 | Author:Reza Aslan

Pakize, who smelled like fur, cats, like fine muslin and handkerchiefs…he would never be able to put his head on her knees. Hey! Who had put this spike in his ...
( Category: Anthologies March 11,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-08-04 | Author:Nazim Hikmet [Hikmet, Nazim]

The organization in Ankara sent Kerim to the university. He’s my closest friend in Moscow. He’s the mortal enemy of two things: cigarettes and lies. He won’t let me smoke ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:al-Quda'i, al-Qadi; Qutbuddin, Tahera; Williams, Rowan

CHAPTER 6 SAYINGS WITH UNUSUAL WORDS 6.1 ʿAlī used to teach his companions how to invoke blessings on the prophet, saying: O God, unfolder of lands unfolded, creator of heavens ...
( Category: Leadership March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Dunya Mikhail

A DEBATE “The moon is our neighbor,” sings Fairouz, while the taxi driver adjusts the mirror but still misses some images: a sheer scarf on a bench, empty bottles scattered ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 7,2020 )