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Book Synopsis Three Journeys in the Levant by : Shusha Guppy
Download or read book Three Journeys in the Levant written by Shusha Guppy and published by Starhaven. This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have nothing but praise for Shusha Guppy's excellent book on the Levant... Her insights into the Near East... Her facility with history, art, religions and poetry of those ancient regions... Her traveller's fascination... These, and many other delights, are presented to us with a captivating informality.- Patrick Leigh FermorOf previous works by the author: " The Blindfold Horse is a deeply moving book, evoking a whole civilization which was shaken to dust by the 1979 revolution."- Anthony Smith, The Times"Looking Back is a feast. A galaxy of remarkable ladies, rendered by the remarkable Shusha Guppy."- Edna O'Brien
Book Synopsis The Travels of Monsieur de Thévenot Into the Levant by : Jean de Thévenot
Download or read book The Travels of Monsieur de Thévenot Into the Levant written by Jean de Thévenot and published by . This book was released on 1687 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fra written by Elbert Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Travels Of Monsieur De Thevenot Into The Levant by : Jean de Thévenot
Download or read book The Travels Of Monsieur De Thevenot Into The Levant written by Jean de Thévenot and published by . This book was released on 1687 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lives Between The Lines by : Michael Vatikiotis
Download or read book Lives Between The Lines written by Michael Vatikiotis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and Rhodes, as they made their way to Egypt and the coast of Palestine in search of opportunity. In the process, he reveals a period where the Middle East was a place of ethnic and cultural harmony - where Arabs and Jews rubbed shoulders in bazaars and teashops, intermarried and shared family history. While lines were eventually drawn and people, including Vatikiotis's family, found themselves caught between clashing faiths, contested identities and violent conflict, this intimate and sweeping memoir is a paean to tolerance, offering a nuanced understanding of the lost Levant.
Book Synopsis Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women by : Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
Download or read book Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women written by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural context for the 17th- to 20th-century writings of Muslim women travelers in ten different languages. Queens and captives, pilgrims and provocateurs, these women are diverse. Their connection to Islam is wide-ranging as well, from the devout to those who distanced themselves from religion. What unites these adventurers is a concern for other women they encounter, their willingness to record their experiences, and the constant thoughts they cast homeward even as they traveled a world that was not always prepared to welcome them. Perfect for readers interested in gender, Islam, travel writing, and global history, Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women provides invaluable insight into how these daring women experienced the world—in their own voices.
Download or read book The Fra written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Levant written by Philip Mansel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not so long ago, in certain cities on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and flourished side by side. What can the histories of these cities tell us? Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom—Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut—cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In these key ports at the crossroads of East and West, against all expectations, cosmopolitanism and nationalism flourished simultaneously. People freely switched identities and languages, released from the prisons of religion and nationality. Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and worshipped as neighbors.Distinguished historian Philip Mansel is the first to recount the colorful, contradictory histories of Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut in the modern age. He begins in the early days of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and continues through the cities' mid-twentieth-century fates: Smyrna burned; Alexandria Egyptianized; Beirut lacerated by civil war.Mansel looks back to discern what these remarkable Levantine cities were like, how they differed from other cities, why they shone forth as cultural beacons. He also embarks on a quest: to discover whether, as often claimed, these cities were truly cosmopolitan, possessing the elixir of coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews for which the world yearns. Or, below the glittering surface, were they volcanoes waiting to erupt, as the catastrophes of the twentieth century suggest? In the pages of the past, Mansel finds important messages for the fractured world of today.
Book Synopsis The Roycroft Books by : Roycroft Shop
Download or read book The Roycroft Books written by Roycroft Shop and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Voyage Into the Levant ... by : Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
Download or read book A Voyage Into the Levant ... written by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and published by . This book was released on 1741 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667 by : Peter Mundy
Download or read book The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667 written by Peter Mundy and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulletin by : Laconia Public Library
Download or read book Bulletin written by Laconia Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A cyclopædia of biblical literature, ed. by J. Kitto by : William Lindsay Alexander
Download or read book A cyclopædia of biblical literature, ed. by J. Kitto written by William Lindsay Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of Congress. December 1830 by : Library of Congress
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress. December 1830 written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of Congress, in December, 1830; a supplement of additions in December, 1831; and an index to the names of authors and annotators, etc by : Library of Congress
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress, in December, 1830; a supplement of additions in December, 1831; and an index to the names of authors and annotators, etc written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The West and the Rest by : Roger Scruton
Download or read book The West and the Rest written by Roger Scruton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scruton shows how the different religious and philosophical roots of Western and Islamic societies have resulted in those societies’ profoundly divergent beliefs about the nature of political order. For one thing, the idea of the social contract, crucial to the self-conception of Western nations, is entirely absent in Islamic societies. Similarly, Scruton explains why the notions of territorial jurisdiction, citizenship, and the independent legitimacy of secular authority and law are both specifically Western and fundamentally antipathetic to Islamic thought. And yet, says Scruton, for its adherents Islam provides amply for one of the most fundamental of human needs: the need for membership. In contrast, the decay of the West’s own political vision, and its concomitant preoccupation with individual choice, has finally led to a “culture of repudiation” in which that need goes increasingly unfulfilled, principally because the sources of its fulfillment—patriotism, religious belief, traditional ways of life—are routinely mocked. Globalization has made these facts an explosive mixture. Migration, modern communications, and the media have inexorably brought the formerly remote inhabitants of Islamic nations into constant contact with the images, products, and peoples of secular, liberal democracies. Scruton warns that in light of this new reality, certain Western assumptions—about consumption and prosperity, about borders and travel, about free trade and multinational corporations, and about multiculturalism—need to be thoroughly re-evaluated. The West and the Rest is a major contribution to the West’s public discourse about terrorism, civil society, and liberal democracy.
Book Synopsis Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey' by : John D.M. Green
Download or read book Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey' written by John D.M. Green and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olga Tufnell (1905–85) was a British archaeologist working in Egypt, Cyprus and Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s, a period often described as a golden age of archaeological discovery. For the first time, this book presents Olga’s account of her experiences in her own words. Based largely on letters home, the text is accompanied by dozens of photographs that shed light on personal experiences of travel and dig life at this extraordinary time. Introductory material by John D.M. Green and Ros Henry provides the social, historical, biographical and archaeological context for the overall narrative. The letters offer new insights into the social and professional networks and history of archaeological research, particularly for Palestine under the British Mandate. They provide insights into the role of foreign archaeologists, relationships with local workers and inhabitants, and the colonial framework within which they operated during turbulent times. This book will be an important resource for those studying the history of archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly for the sites of Qau el-Kebir, Tell Fara, Tell el-‘Ajjul and Tell ed-Duweir (ancient Lachish). Moreover, Olga’s lively style makes this a fascinating personal account of archaeology and travel in the interwar era.
