Download or read book Letters to Ammi written by Aftab Yusuf Shaikh and published by City. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl traces her mother's journey through the city of Delhi, writing letters to her along the way. Every monument holds a memory; every letter tells a story. Letters to Ammi by Aftab Yusuf Shaikh, with stunning photographs by Adrija ghosh and Soumitra Ranade, is a celebration of timeless human relationships.
Download or read book Babylonian and Assyrian Laws Contracts and Letters written by Claude Hermann Walter Johns and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Akkadian of Ugarit written by John Huehnergard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Basti written by Intizar Husain and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NYRB Classics Original Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain’s extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim and Hindu. Then Zakir, the hero, wakes to the modern world. Crowds gather. Slogans echo. Cities burn. Whether hunkered down with family or furtively meeting to exchange news with friends in cafés, Zakir is alone in a country lost to the politics of loneliness.
Download or read book Ammi written by Saeed Akhtar Mirza and published by Westland. This book was released on 2008 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant debut by the master filmmaker. Mirza's narrative interweaves memories of a mother with the living political creed she believed in - the egalitarian ethos of a democratic faith coupled with a deep, inquiring faith in religion. The book begins as a letter that contains within itself a vast repertoire of literary genres ranging from the short story, poetry, interior monologue, memoir and diatribe, to travelogue, novelisation and film script. Mirza writes simply and, with a filmmaker's passion for authenticity, he makes everyday events tell a deeply complex story. In 1938, his mother, while walking back with his father from an evening show at the Eros Cinema in Mumbai, casually removed her burqa and never donned it again. This was one of the 'quietest revolutions' ever witnessed.
Download or read book My Letters to the Church written by Genesis McKenzie and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One solution to the greatest challenges of modern day Christianity today! Anti-Semitism is ingrained in our Christian doctrines and viewpoints, which makes all who claim to be Christian prone to be natural anti-Semitists in their doctrine. This book provides an analysis of anti-Semitism in Christian doctrines from a theological perspective, and will show you how we can rid ourselves of it, and destroy the leaven of anti-Semitism in our Christian doctrine once and for all! The author provides a new way of seeing the Letters to the Seven Churches of Revelation chapter 2-3, and a look at major religious practices in today's Pop-Christianity, from Baptism to the issue of Women's Silence in the Church; a renewed way of viewing the Scriptures without much change. An appreciation of the Jewishness of the Apostles and the Lost Frontier to help all come to unity of the knowledge of the Son of God."
Download or read book Kardunia Babylonia under the Kassites 1 written by Alexa Bartelmus and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karduniaš, as the kingdom of the Kassites in Babylonia was called in ancient times, was the neighbor and rival of great powers such as Egypt, the Hittites, and Assyria. But while our knowledge of the latter kingdoms has made huge progress in the last decades, the Kassites have until recently been largely ignored by modern scholarship. Recently a number of scholars have embarked on research into different aspects of Late Bronze Age Babylonia. The desire to share the results of these new investigations resulted in an international conference, which was held at Munich University in July 2011. The presentations given at this meeting have been revised for publication in the current volume.This book gives an overview of current research on the Kassites and is the first larger survey of their culture ever. An invaluable introduction by Kassite expert Professor John A. Brinkman is followed by seventeen specialist contributions investigating different aspects of the Kassites. These include detailed historical, social, cultural, archaeological, and art historical studies concerning the Kassites from their first arrival in Mesopotamia, during the period when a Kassite Dynasty ruled Babylonia (c. 1595-1155 BC), and in the subsequent aftermath. Concentrating on southern Mesopotamia the contributions also discuss Kassite relations and presence in neighboring regions.The book is completed by a substantial bibliography and a detailed index.
Download or read book Chronicles Concerning Early Babylonian Kings Texts and translations written by Leonard William King and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters to the King of Mari written by Wolfgang Heimpel and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2003-06-23 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new Mesopotamian Civilizations volume, Professor Heimpel collects the corpus of the Mari correspondence and provides an introduction, a reconstruction of events during Zimri-Lim’s reign, and English translations of these Mari texts (26/1, 26/2, 27, and additional texts). This volume includes indexes of personal names/individuals, group designations/personnel, and places.
Download or read book The higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments written by Archibald Henry Sayce and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mirrored Loss written by Gabriele vom Bruck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirrored Loss tells the story of Amat al-Latif al Wazir, only daughter of 'Abdullah al-Wazir, the leader of Yemen's constitutional movement of the mid-twentieth century for democratisation of the autocratic imamate. Her relationship with her adored father, who was accused of treason, takes centre stage in this biographical narrative. Amat al-Latif, enjoyed a privileged childhood in a high-ranking family at the heart of Yemeni politics; yet the failed revolt of 1948 was the family's downfall, leaving her and other close relatives exposed to social indignities and privation. She then spent many years in exile, where she suffered a personal calamity that compounded the earlier catastrophe. Through one family's story, Gabriele vom Bruck explores how violence translates into tragedy in the personal realm, and how individual lives and larger cultural and political worlds intersect in Yemen. Her narrative makes these tragic events compellingly tangible, especially at the level of gendered subjectivity--female Yemenis have been either unknown to or deemed insignificant by most male historians of this period. Mirrored Loss is a significant step in righting that omission.
Download or read book The Migrants written by SALMA A SIDDIQUI and published by One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in the first person, this honest, deeply moving and searingly self-critical account of the life of first generation Pakistani migrants in England is imbedded in the kaleidoscopic memories of a generation haunted by the tragic events of history. Burdened by their own secrets, it is the tale of a family in pursuit of hope and happiness in a new world. The narrative lays bare the heart of family life and the cosmos of first generation migrants, as they struggle to find a toehold in an utterly foreign country. Plucked from the warmth of Rawalpindi, transported to a cold foggy London winter, surround by the invisible barriers created by her culture, Salmi’s life becomes confined to the four walls of her family’s two-bed flat in Stockwell. While Abbu and Ammi wish their children to succeed in Western society, they also strive to maintain the heritage and religion they cherish. Enthralled by the allure of the world that lies beyond her family home, Salmi is required to navigate the slippery path between the strict traditions she has inherited and the baffling modern life she encounters every day as she grows up. Battling the yearnings of her family ‘in exile’ as well as her own emotional confusion, Salmi gradually transcends the strict traditions she has inherited. Today, she knows she has triumphed against all odds…but at what cost?
Download or read book The Letters and Inscriptions of Hammurabi King of Babylon about B C 2200 written by Hammurabi (King of Babylonia.) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Babylonian Oracle Questions written by Wilfred G. Lambert and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Babylonian tamitu texts are a corpus of questions addressed to the sun-god Shamash and the storm-god Adad jointly. Professional diviners were employed to put the questions with the appropriate rites and to formulate the wording correctly, since the only answer would be "yes" or "no." Thus the questions had to include a detailed exposition of the matter, and they open up intimate glances of things not otherwise available. Kings ask whether they should undertake a certain campaign, laying out a detailed plan of action. At the other end of the scale, a man wants to know whether his wife is telling him the truth. All tablets are of first millennium B.C. date, though some of the questions date from the second millennium B.C. Scribes copied out questions to serve as models for later use. In this volume W.G. Lambert has gathered together all the known material, including 54 tablets and fragments not previously published. All are given in cuneiform copy, transliteration, translation, with notes and an introduction. By far the greater part of this material has not been edited before.
Download or read book Stealing the Gila written by David H. DeJong and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1850 the Pima Indians of central Arizona had developed a strong and sustainable agricultural economy based on irrigation. As David H. DeJong demonstrates, the Pima were an economic force in the mid-nineteenth century middle Gila River valley, producing food and fiber crops for western military expeditions and immigrants. Moreover, crops from their fields provided an additional source of food for the Mexican military presidio in Tucson, as well as the U.S. mining districts centered near Prescott. For a brief period of about three decades, the Pima were on an equal economic footing with their non-Indian neighbors. This economic vitality did not last, however. As immigrants settled upstream from the Pima villages, they deprived the Indians of the water they needed to sustain their economy. DeJong traces federal, territorial, and state policies that ignored Pima water rights even though some policies appeared to encourage Indian agriculture. This is a particularly egregious example of a common story in the West: the flagrant local rejection of Supreme Court rulings that protected Indian water rights. With plentiful maps, tables, and illustrations, DeJong demonstrates that maintaining the spreading farms and growing towns of the increasingly white population led Congress and other government agencies to willfully deny Pimas their water rights. Had their rights been protected, DeJong argues, Pimas would have had an economy rivaling the local and national economies of the time. Instead of succeeding, the Pima were reduced to cycles of poverty, their lives destroyed by greed and disrespect for the law, as well as legal decisions made for personal gain.
Download or read book Black Zion written by Yvonne Chireau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the myriad ways in which African American religions have encountered Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. In contrast to previous works, which have typically focused on the social and political relationship between blacks and Jews, Black Zion places religion at the center of its discussion, thereby illuminating a critically important but little explored aspect of black-Jewish relations in America. The essays gathered here examine groups such as the Nation of Islam and the Hebrew Israelites, individuals such as Martin Luther King, Jr., and Abraham Joshua Heschel, and topics such as the transformation of synagogue space into African American churches and the symbolic role of the Jew in the Haitian religious imagination. This collection draws on sacred texts, interviews, and ethnographic and archival research to discuss the shared elements in black and Jewish sacred life, as well as the development and elaboration of new religious identities by African Americans. Featuring contributions from a group of renowned scholars and writers, this groundbreaking volume reveals a great deal about both African American religions and the meaning of Judaism in the contemporary world. It is essential reading for students of religion, history, cultural studies, black studies, and American studies.
Download or read book An Amusing Expedition into Life s Quirks written by Priyanka Malhotra and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Amusing Expedition into Life’s Quirks is a delightfully funny short read that takes you on a rollercoaster ride through the author’s personal and corporate life experiences. The author shares a compilation of relatable incidents and amusing anecdotes inspired by the events of her own life and some observed in the lives of others. In this book, you'll find 21 chapters filled with hilarity, heart, and even a touch of beauty advice.
