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Download or read book Stamboul Ghosts written by John Freely and published by Cornucopia Books/Caique Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorful, cosmopolitan, hard-drinking, often outrageous characters throng this rollicking memoir by the late John Freely, who moved with his family to Istanbul in 1960 and changed travel writing for good with his 1972 guide, Strolling Through Istanbul. Dozens of books on travel, history and science would follow.
Book Synopsis Angels Tapping at the Wine-shop's Door by : Rudi Matthee
Download or read book Angels Tapping at the Wine-shop's Door written by Rudi Matthee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In many Islamic countries, alcohol is banned; in others, it plays little role in social life. Yet, Muslims throughout history did drink, often to excess--whether sultans and shahs in their palaces, or commoners in taverns run by Jews or Christians. This evocative study delves into drinking's many historic, literary and social manifestations in Islam, going beyond references to 'hypocrisy' or the temptations of 'forbidden fruit'. Rudi Matthee argues that alcohol, through its 'absence' as much as its presence, takes us to the heart of Islam. Exploring the long history of this faith--from the eight-century Umayyad dynasty to Erdogan's Turkey, and from Islamic Spain to modern Pakistan--he unearths a tradition of diversity and multiplicity in which Muslims drank, and found myriad excuses to do so. They celebrated wine and used it as a poetic metaphor, even viewing alcohol as a gift from God--the key to unlocking eternal truth. Drawing on a plethora of sources, Matthee presents Islam not as an austere and uncompromising faith, but as a set of beliefs and practices that embrace ambivalence, allowing for ambiguity and even contradiction.
Download or read book B-Side Books written by John Plotz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list . . . and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped through the cracks, went unread, missed their rightful appointment with posterity. They were ahead of their times or behind their times or on a whole different schedule than the rest of the universe. What do you do when a book that you love has been neglected or dismissed by everyone else? In B-Side Books, leading writers, critics, and scholars show why their favorite forgotten books deserve a new audience. From dusty westerns and far-out science fiction to obscure Czech novelists and romance-novel precursors, the contributors advocate for the unsung virtues of overlooked books. They write about unheralded novels, poetry collections, memoirs, and more with understanding, respect, passion, and love. In these thoughtful, often personal essays, contributors—including Stephanie Burt, Caleb Crain, Merve Emre, Ursula K. Le Guin, Carlo Rotella, and Namwali Serpell—read books by writers such as Helen DeWitt, Shirley Jackson, Stanislaw Lem, Dambudzo Marechera, Paule Marshall, and Charles Portis.
Book Synopsis The Companion Guide to Istanbul and Around the Marmara by : John Freely
Download or read book The Companion Guide to Istanbul and Around the Marmara written by John Freely and published by Companion Guides. This book was released on 2000 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traveller gets exactly what he needs, and in a handy format. THE TIMES The author seems to have covered every road in the country, and has something of interest to say about virtually every site. COUNTRY LIFE Istanbul is the only city in the world that stands astride two continents, spreading across from Europe into Asia at the southern end of the Bosphorus, the incomparably beautiful strait linking the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara in northwestern Turkey. This Companion Guide to Istanbul goes as far as the region around Marmara from the Bosphorus to the Dardanelles, which flows into the Aegean past the historic ruins of Troy on its Asian shore.Revised and updated for this new edition, the book is a guide to the Byzantine and Ottoman monuments and to the many other places of great historic interest around the Marmara, including Edirne, Bursa and Iznik, ancient Nicaea, as well as the renowned archaeological site of Homeric Troy. It is also an introduction to Turkey itself and to its people and their way of life, which they are more than willing to share with the traveller who takes the time to become acquainted with them. JOHN FREELY has lived and worked on America's east coast, in Britain, and around the Mediterranean, but is long-time Professor of Physics at the University of the Bosphorus, Istanbul, and has been resident for many years in Turkey. His understanding of the land and its people has made him a respected interpreter of Turkey ancient and modern.
Download or read book Stamboul Train written by Graham Greene and published by Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books. This book was released on 1963 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Strolling Through Istanbul by : Sumner-Boyd
Download or read book Strolling Through Istanbul written by Sumner-Boyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms by : Lord Dunsany
Download or read book The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms written by Lord Dunsany and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Certain Samaritans by : Esther Pohl Lovejoy
Download or read book Certain Samaritans written by Esther Pohl Lovejoy and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the work of the American Women's Hospital Service, of which the author became president in 1919.
Book Synopsis A History of Ottoman Architecture by : John Freely
Download or read book A History of Ottoman Architecture written by John Freely and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is focused on the history of the extant buildings in the Republic of Turkey. The book begins with a brief history of the Ottoman Empire and develops by outlining the mains features of Ottoman architecture and discusses the biography of the great Ottoman architect Sinan.
Download or read book Harper's Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Storm on Horseback written by John Freely and published by Tauris Parke. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene by : Dermot Gilvary
Download or read book Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene written by Dermot Gilvary and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain by : Hywel Dix
Download or read book Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain written by Hywel Dix and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers. It starts by examining the new emphasis on space and place that has emerged in recent cultural analysis, and shows how this spatial emphasis informs different literary texts. Having first analysed a series of novels that draw an implicit parallel between the end of the British Empire and the break-up of the unitary British state, the study explores how contemporary writing in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales contributes to a sense of nationhood in those places, and so contributes to the break-up of Britain symbolically. Dix argues that the break-up of Britain is not limited to political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is also an imaginary process that can be found occurring on a number of other conceptual coordinates. Feminism, class, regional identities and ethnic communities are all terrains on which different writers carry out a fictional questioning of received notions of Britishness and so contribute in different ways to the break-up of Britain.
Download or read book Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blackwood's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters by : Henry Addington Bruce
Download or read book Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters written by Henry Addington Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stamboul Sketches written by John Freely and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 1960's John Freely and Hilary Sumner-Boyd explored every alley, cove and monument of their adopted home of Istanbul in between their teaching jobs. They created a legendary guidebook, covering 1,500 years of Byzantine and Ottoman architecture, to a city that was still innocent of tourists. But the passages that were too personal, too capricious, too idiosyncratic, too indulgent of eccentric personalities, too melancholically obsessed with lost monuments, too wrapped up in the love of mid-afternoon banter, too indulgent of musicians, dancers, gypsies, dervish, drunks, beggars, fishermen, poets, fortune-tellers, folk healers, mimics and prostitutes were cut from their scholarly guidebook. 'Stamboul Sketches' is a slim book compiled from these editorial floor off-cuts.
