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Author : Géza Fehérvári
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Sifting Sands, Reading Signs written by Géza Fehérvári and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maryam D. Ekhtiar
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396304
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book How to Read Islamic Calligraphy written by Maryam D. Ekhtiar and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For centuries, Islamic calligraphy has mesmerized viewers with its beauty, sophistication, and seemingly endless variety of styles. How to Read Islamic Calligraphy offers new perspectives on this distinctive art form, using examples from The Met's superlative collections to explore the enduring preeminence of the written word as a means of creative expression throughout the Islamic world. Combining engaging, accessible texts with stunning new photography, How to Read Islamic Calligraphy introduces readers to the major Islamic script types and explains the various contexts, whether secular or sacred, in which each one came to be used. Beauty and brilliance emerge in equal measure from works of every medium, from lavishly illuminated Qur'an manuscripts, to glassware etched with poetic verses, to ceramic tiles brushed with benedictions. The sheer breadth of objects illustrated in these pages exemplifies the ubiquity of calligraphy, and provides a compelling introduction to this unique art form"--Publisher's description
Author : Will Kester
Publisher : William Kester
ISBN 13 : 0595854613
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Shifting Sands written by Will Kester and published by William Kester. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saudi Arabia, 1973: In his job as interpreter and laborer for an American-Arabian Company, Saleh has come to understand the American mindset through his boss, Bill. But Saleh finds himself in conflict with his culture. Even though his father wants him to attend university and base his future on the will of Allah, Saleh is intrigued with the United States and wants to pursue his education there. With his father's blessing, Saleh attends school in America. Unfortunately, America is not the land he dreamed of, as prejudice and hatred follow him. When an American girl named Blair befriends him, she quickly Americanizes him-new haircut, new clothes, and new understanding. But Saleh cannot forget his culture. After college, Saleh advances in the oil business and soon becomes a powerful player, in his country's major industry-oil. When he becomes involved in a terrorist plot to destroy the economies of the Western World, will Saleh remember his early goodwill toward the West or will he succumb to his hatred? From the burning sands of the Saudi Arabian desert to the business centers of the world's economies, terrorists, peacemakers, religions, and cultures collide in this thrilling novel.
Author : Steve Donahue
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 144296698X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Shifting Sands written by Steve Donahue and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike the familiar mountain-climbing metaphor, which focuses more narrowly on goal setting and achievement, the desert as a metaphorical place of change does not have final summit or endpoint. Shifting Sands exposes the mountain-climbing myth and its goal-setting metaphor as ineffective, and suggests that the desert is the perfect metaphor to d...
Author : Grey Wolf
Publisher : XinXii
ISBN 13 : 1910718475
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Shifting Sands written by Grey Wolf and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a world war against the combined might of the German and Russian empires, agreeing the peace is a task unto itself. How will Lord Wolfe navigate the varied twists and turns of fate? Once the darling of the old British emperor in his role as Governor of the vast South African dominions, he finds himself shunned by the new monarch in London, relying on his Spanish connections for attendance at the peace conference. Together with his daughter Carlotta, Wolfe must adapt to a new reality, one that takes him home to Britain where his wealth might buy him land and house, but can it ever work to restore his lost influence in the affairs of men?
Author : Steve Donahue
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1576752801
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Shifting Sands written by Steve Donahue and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We had no vehicle. We didn't know how or if we could continue heading south. I was in a vast, seemingly endless desert. I didn't know when or if we'd make it to the other side. I didn't even know where the other side was. It wasn't in Algeria. I knew that much. Was it in Niger? Where does the Sahara actually end?" We live in a culture, Donahue writes, which loves "climbing mountains." We want to see the peak, map out a route, and follow it to the top. Sometimes this approach works, but not always, particularly when we are enduring a personal crisis-divorce, job loss, addiction, illness, or death. We may not know exactly where we are going, how to get there, or even how we'll know we've arrived. And it's not just in times of crisis. There are many deserts in our lives, situations with no clear paths or boundaries. Finding a job is usually a mountain, but changing careers can be a desert. Having a baby is a mountain, especially for the mom. But raising a child is a desert. Battling cancer is a mountain. Living with a chronic illness is a desert. In the desert, we need to follow different rules than we follow when conquering a mountain. We need to be more intuitive, more patient, more spontaneous. Donahue outlines six "rules of desert travel" that will help us discover our direction by wandering, find our own personal oases, and cross our self-imposed borders. "The sun appears like a silent explosion, a slow motion fireworks display dazzling the volcanic crags of the Hoggar. I stand up and walk to the path and begin descending to Klaus' car. I've made my decision. Tallis and I will travel, somehow, to Agadez. I don't have a logical explanation for my decision or a plan to get to the last oasis. I know I am on the right journey-I am following my compass." Shifting Sands shows us how to slow down, reflect, and embrace the changes of life graciously, naturally, and courageously.
Author : Steve Donahue
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442966947
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Shifting Sands (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) written by Steve Donahue and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Bloom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019530991X
Total Pages : 1697 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture: Three-Volume Set written by Jonathan Bloom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 1697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture is the most comprehensive reference work in this complex and diverse area of art history. Built on the acclaimed scholarship of the Grove Dictionary of Art, this work offers over 1,600 up-to-date entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history. Recent changes in Islamic art in areas such as Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq are elucidated here by distinguished scholars. Entries provide in-depth art historical and cultural information about dynasties, art forms, artists, architecture, rulers, monuments, archaeological sites and stylistic developments. In addition, over 500 illustrations of sculpture, mosaic, painting, ceramics, architecture, metalwork and calligraphy illuminate the rich artistic tradition of the Islamic world. With the fundamental understanding that Islamic art is not limited to a particular region, or to a defined period of time, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture offers pathways into Islamic culture through its art.
Author : Mrs. Romilly Fedden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Shifting Sands written by Mrs. Romilly Fedden and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heike Jöns
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319446541
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Mobilities of Knowledge written by Heike Jöns and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines how spatial mobilities of people and practices, technologies and objects, knowledge and ideas have shaped the production, circulation, and transfer of knowledge in different historical and geographical contexts. Targeting an interdisciplinary audience, Mobilities of Knowledge combines detailed empirical analyses with innovative conceptual approaches. The first part scrutinizes knowledge circulation, transfer, and adaption, focussing on the interpersonal communication process, early techniques of papermaking, a geographical text, indigenous knowledge in exploration, the genealogy of spatial analysis, and different disciplinary knowledges about the formation of cities, states, and agriculture. The second part analyses the interplay of mediators, networks, and learning by studying academic careers, travels, and collaborations within the British Empire, public internationalism in Geneva, the global transfer of corporate knowledge through expatriation, graduate mobility from the global south to the global north, and the international mobility of degree programs in higher education.This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Author : Andrew Petersen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811069654
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Bones of Contention written by Andrew Petersen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pivot sets Muslim shrines within the wider context of Heritage Studies in the Muslim world and considers their role in the articulation of sacred landscapes, their function as sites of cultural memory and their links to different religious traditions. Reviewing the historiography of Muslim shrines paying attention to the different ways these places have been studied, through anthropology, archaeology, history, and religious studies, the text discusses the historical and archaeological evidence for the development of shrines in the region from pre-Islamic times up to the present day. It also assesses the significance of Muslim shrines in the modern Middle East, focusing on the diverse range of opinions and treatments from veneration to destruction, and argues that shrines have a unique social function as a means of direct contact with the past in a region where changing political configurations have often distorted conventional historical narratives.
Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900417589X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Muqarnas written by Gülru Necipoğlu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Muqarnas" is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Muqarnas" 26 contains articles on a variety of topics that span and transcend the geographic and temporal boundaries that have traditionally defined the history of Islamic art and architecture. Contributors include Robert McChesney, Mattia Guidetti, Marcus Schadl, Christian Gruber, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, Doris Abouseif, Olga Bush, Emine Fetvaci, Moya Carey, Bernard O'Kane, Hadi Maktabi, Nadia Erzini and Stephen Vernoit.
Author : Katie Ritson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429955529
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands written by Katie Ritson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of the Anthropocene are being played out. This book shows how the fragile landscapes around the North Sea have served as bellwethers for environmental concern both now and in the recent past. It looks at literary sources drawn from the countries around the North Sea (Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and England) from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, taking them out of their established national and cultural contexts and reframing them in the light of human concern with fast-changing and hazardous environments. The six chapters serve as literary case studies that highlight memories of flood disaster and recovery, attempts to engineer the landscape into submission, perceptions of the landscape as both local and global, and the imagination of the future of our planet. This approach, which combines environmental history and ecocriticism, shows the importance of cultural artefacts in understandings of, and responses to, environmental change, and advocates for the importance of literary studies in the environmental humanities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the Environmental Humanities, including Eco-criticism and Environmental History, as well as anyone studying literature from the Germanic philologies.
Author : Bob Alexander
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574415921
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands written by Bob Alexander and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many well-read students, historians, and loyal aficionados of Texas Ranger lore know the name of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones (1856-1893), who died on the Texas-Mexico border in a shootout with Mexican rustlers. In Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands, Bob Alexander has now penned the first full-length biography of this important nineteenth-century Texas Ranger. At an early age Frank Jones, a native Texan, would become a Frontier Battalion era Ranger. His enlistment with the Rangers coincided with their transition from Indian fighters to lawmen. While serving in the Frontier Battalion officers' corps of Company D, Frank Jones supervised three of the four "great" captains of that era: J.A. Brooks, John H. Rogers, and John R. Hughes. Besides Austin Ira Aten and his younger brothers Calvin Grant Aten and Edwin Dunlap Aten, Captain Jones also managed law enforcement activities of numerous other noteworthy Rangers, such as Philip Cuney "P.C." Baird, Benjamin Dennis Lindsey, Bazzell Lamar "Baz" Outlaw, J. Walter Durbin, Jim King, Frank Schmid, and Charley Fusselman, to name just a few. Frank Jones' law enforcing life was anything but boring. Not only would he find himself dodging bullets and returning fire, but those Rangers under his supervision would also experience gunplay. Of all the Texas Ranger companies, Company D contributed the highest number of on-duty deaths within Texas Ranger ranks.
Author : Shokoohy Mehrdad Shokoohy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474460755
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Bayana written by Shokoohy Mehrdad Shokoohy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bayana in Rajasthan, and its monuments, challenge the perceived but established view of the development of Muslim architecture and urban form in India. At the end of the twelfth century, early conquerors took the mighty Hindu fort, building the first Muslim city below on virgin ground. They later reconfigured the fort and constructed another town within it. These two towns were the centre of an autonomous region during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Going beyond a simple study of the historic, architectural and archaeological remains, this book takes on the wider issues of how far the artistic traditions of Bayana, which developed independently from those of Delhi, later influenced north Indian architecture. It shows how these traditions were the forerunners of the Mughal architectural style, which drew many of its features from innovations developed first in Bayana.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004242147
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Every Inch a King written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of kings, the source of their authority and the nature of the practical restraints on their power have exercised political and religious philosophers, historians, competing candidates for rule and subject populations from the time of the earliest documented human societies. How the kingly image is created and presented and how the ruler performs his or her function as the source of justice are among the topics addressed in this volume, which also covers the role of queens in maintaining dynastic succession yet being the target of tales of adultery. This volume is of particular interest in bringing together studies of kingly power from Cyrus the Great and Alexander in the ancient world to Shah Abbas in the seventeenth century, and covering the European Middle Ages as well as Iran and the Muslim world.
Author : Steve Donahue
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 144296703X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Shifting Sands written by Steve Donahue and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
