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Book Synopsis Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge by : Knut S. Vikør
Download or read book Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge written by Knut S. Vikør and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al-Sanusi (1787-1859) founded the Sufi brotherhood of the Sanusiya in Cyrenaica (Libya), which organized the Bedouin of the desert and its littoral for religious piety and trade and development. It grew into one of the most influential Islamic movements in North Africa and the Sahara, and later played a key role in resisting French and Italian imperialism. Vikor examines the scholarly tradition in which Al-Sanusi was educated as a Sufi teacher and scholar of Islamic Law, and its influence on his intentions and methods. Slightly revised from his 1992 thesis for the University of Bergen. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Nature at the Desert's Edge by : Richard William George Hingston
Download or read book Nature at the Desert's Edge written by Richard William George Hingston and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Last Civilized Place by : Ronald A. Messier
Download or read book The Last Civilized Place written by Ronald A. Messier and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set along the Sahara's edge, Sijilmasa was an African El Dorado, a legendary city of gold. But unlike El Dorado, Sijilmasa was a real city, the pivot in the gold trade between ancient Ghana and the Mediterranean world. Following its emergence as an independent city-state controlling a monopoly on gold during its first 250 years, Sijilmasa was incorporated into empire—Almoravid, Almohad, and onward—leading to the "last civilized place" becoming the cradle of today's Moroccan dynasty, the Alaouites. Sijilmasa's millennium of greatness ebbed with periods of war, renewal, and abandonment. Today, its ruins lie adjacent to and under the modern town of Rissani, bypassed by time. The Moroccan-American Project at Sijilmasa draws on archaeology, historical texts, field reconnaissance, oral tradition, and legend to weave the story of how this fabled city mastered its fate. The authors' deep local knowledge and interpretation of the written and ecological record allow them to describe how people and place molded four distinct periods in the city's history. Messier and Miller compare models of Islamic cities to what they found on the ground to understand how Sijilmasa functioned as a city. Continuities and discontinuities between Sijilmasa and the contemporary landscape sharpen questions regarding the nature of human life on the rim of the desert. What, they ask, allows places like Sijilmasa to rise to greatness? What causes them to fall away and disappear into the desert sands?
Download or read book Oasis written by Katya de Becerra and published by Imprint. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this young adult thriller for fans of Lost and The Twilight Zone, a group of teens are saved when they come across a mysterious oasis. But who will save them from the oasis? Alif had exciting summer plans: working on her father’s archeological dig site in the desert with four close friends ... and a very cute research assistant. Then the sandstorm hit. Their camp wiped away, Alif and the others find themselves lost on the sands, seemingly doomed ... until they find the oasis. It has everything they need: food, water, and shade—and mysterious ruins that hide a deadly secret. As reality begins to shift around them, they question what’s real and what’s a mirage. The answers turn Alif and her friends against each other, and they begin to wonder if they’ve truly been saved. And while it was easy to walk into the oasis, it may be impossible to leave ... An Imprint Book “Will stick to readers’ skin long after the final page is turned.” —Booklist (starred review) “de Becerra successfully builds a fraught tension throughout the book that mirrors the characters’ feelings as reality leaves them behind . . . well worth the payoff.” —The Bulletin
Download or read book Oasis written by iO Tillett Wright and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the desert. Welcome home. This visually stunning tour of the world’s most amazing desert homes will inspire you to create an oasis with “desert vibes” wherever you are. Creatives are drawn in by the extreme landscapes and limited resources of the desert; in fact, they’re inspired by them, and the homes they’ve built here prove the power of an oasis. From renovated Airstreams to sprawling, modern stucco, desert has become the new beachfront. In Oasis, artist iO Tillett Wright captures the best of this specific culture that emphasizes living simply, beautifully, and in connection with the earth. He highlights the homes that define this desert mindset, featuring the classics like Georgia O’Keefe’s in Abiquiu, New Mexico, alongside more modern homes such as Michael Barnard’s Solar House in Marfa, Texas. With Casey Dunn’s stunning photography, Oasis will transport you to these relaxing refuges, where you’ll learn what elements create the balance of intentionality, ease, style, and function that these homes exude.
Download or read book The Library World written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Animal Spell written by Michael A. Susko and published by AllrOneofUs Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protagonist is a Wolf-dog, who after losing his pack, must find new friends to survive. Throughout the story he chooses between two groups, one more ragtag and appearing weak, and another with more power and less freedom. An intriguing class of characters appears, including a "Fire Lion", the Water Spouter, and a Dust Dragon.There's magic loose in this world too, as the Wolf-dog's shape can change, and he finds himself on either side. An array of paradoxes arises, and your boundaries of empathy are stretched. Come, take this fantastic journey in animals, which has a coherent world vision behind it. Reading this, you are invited to become aware of your light and shadow sides, and to find your true soul self.
Book Synopsis Origins of the Bronze Age Oasis Civilization in Central Asia by : Fredrik Talmage Hiebert
Download or read book Origins of the Bronze Age Oasis Civilization in Central Asia written by Fredrik Talmage Hiebert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988–89, Fred Hiebert excavated part of Gonur in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Turkmenistan and the Institute of Archaeology in Moscow. Published here, the results provide a key to understanding the large corpus of material of the Bactro-Margiana Archaeological Complex extracted over the past 30 years.
Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Ninth International Dakhleh Oasis Project Conference by : Colin A. Hope
Download or read book Proceedings of the Ninth International Dakhleh Oasis Project Conference written by Colin A. Hope and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-01-19 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume in the Oasis Papers series marks the 40th anniversary of archaeological fieldwork in the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert under the leadership of Anthony J. Mills and presents a synthesis of the current state of our knowledge of the oasis and its interconnections with surrounding regions, especially the Nile Valley. The papers are by distinguished authorities in the field and postgraduate students who specialise in different aspects of Dakhleh and presents an almost complete survey of the archaeology of Dakhleh including much unpublished, original material. It will be one of the few to document a specific part of modern Egypt in such detail and thus should have a broad and lasting appeal. The content of some of the papers is unlikely to be published in any other form elsewhere. Dakhleh is possibly the most intensively examined wider geographic region within Egypt.
Book Synopsis Junak Silverhand by : Ronald D Ferguson
Download or read book Junak Silverhand written by Ronald D Ferguson and published by AyoKite Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: —Unbridled power corrupts, but what halter provides the bridle? Magic has a price, and the price for difficult magic is rapid aging. Because cold iron short-circuits controlled magic, wizards in the Age of Magic struggle to find a new source of power to compete against the dawning Age of Iron. Without a new source of power for the wizards, cold steel dooms the Age of Magic and the Age of Iron will ascend. When Junak the Hunter attempts to save his wife from marauding slavers, an explosion of wild magic burns away his right hand. With the aid of a wizard recently released from an imprisoning stasis, Junak's hand regenerates, but not to its original condition. Instead, the hand acquires a quicksilver sheen, and the magical power from Junak's hand flows into any steel weapon that he wields. Magic was never able to bend iron to its will before. Will Junak's new ability allow him to reunite his family or simply make him a wildcard tool that wizards can wield to topple a kingdom? Junak Silverhand is Book 1 in the Age of Magic / Age of Iron series.
Book Synopsis Inheriting the Earth; Or, The Geographical Factor in National Development by : Oscar Diedrich Engeln
Download or read book Inheriting the Earth; Or, The Geographical Factor in National Development written by Oscar Diedrich Engeln and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cross-Cultural Trade in World History by : Philip D. Curtin
Download or read book Cross-Cultural Trade in World History written by Philip D. Curtin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-05-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trade between peoples of differinf cultures, from the ancient world to the commercial revolution.
Book Synopsis A Desert Named Peace by : Benjamin Claude Brower
Download or read book A Desert Named Peace written by Benjamin Claude Brower and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lying in the shadow of the colonization of northern Algeria, which claimed the lives of over a million people, French empire in the Sahara sought power through physical force as it had elsewhere; yet violence in the Algerian Sahara followed a more complicated logic than the old argument that it was simply a way to get empire on the cheap. A Desert Named Peace examines colonial violence through multiple stories and across several fields of research. It presents four cases: the military conquests of the French army in the oases and officers' predisposition to use extreme violence in colonial conflicts; a spontaneous nighttime attack made by Algerian pastoralists on a French village, as notable for its brutality as for its obscure causes; the violence of indigenous forms of slavery and the colonial accommodations that preserved it during the era of abolition; and the struggles of French Romantics whose debates about art and politics arrived from Paris with disastrous consequences. Benjamin Claude Brower uses these different perspectives to reveal the unexpected causes of colonial violence, such as France's troubled revolutionary past and its influence on the military's institutional culture, the aesthetics of the sublime and its impact on colonial thinking, the ecological crises suffered by Saharan pastoralists under colonial rule, and the conflicting paths to authority inherent in Algerian Sufism. Directly engaging a controversial history, A Desert Named Peace offers an important backdrop to understanding the Algerian war for independence (1954-1962) and Algeria's ongoing internal war, begun in 1992, between the government and armed groups that claim to fight for an Islamist revolution.
Download or read book New Library World written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Before Our Eyes written by Eleanor Wilner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Before our eyes gather more than thirty new poems by Eleanor Wilner, along with representative selections from her seven previous works"--Back cover.
Book Synopsis Socio-Economic Development in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by : Alessandra Cappelletti
Download or read book Socio-Economic Development in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region written by Alessandra Cappelletti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unprecedented exploration of space and power in rural Xinjiang, a Chinese region home to the Muslim population of the Uyghurs, this book adopts a grounded theory approach and a trans-ethnic perspective into the complex and sensitive topic of land issues and agricultural land evictions in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. By exposing the dynamics of land acquisition and power building in the politically contested space of the region, the author shows how state owned land in a key commercial and cultural hub on the new Silk Road became a commodity, in a context of violent human interactions driven by power. Relying on previously undisclosed material and on a unique field research among farmers and local authorities, the author retraces the steps of Uyghur peasant workers, entangled in a suspended situation between abandoned rural villages, migration and urban alienation, in a book which explores agency in violent processes of social change, and adds concepts and insights to the current knowledge of how we become modern citizens. The microcosm of Kashgar, an oasis-city in Xinjiang, acts as a mirror reflecting socio political dynamics framing people’s identity. Shedding light on one of the most inaccessible region in China, this book is a key read for academics and a broader public willing to get a clearer view of one of the sourest power struggle in the most contested region within the next superpower.
