Download or read book Nuri s Donkey written by Emily Bunker and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Allah wants a pauper to be happy First he makes him lose his donkey Then he lets him find it A lost donkey and a collection of stories don't appear to have much in common. But the joy of finding each of them lies in the renewed appreciation for something vital that perhaps was taken for granted. For his livelihood's sake, a pauper mustn't lose his donkey; for humanity's sake, we mustn't lose our desire to listen to - and recognize ourselves in - the voices of others. Nuri's Donkey takes readers to a remote village in Turkey, where they will discover funny, bittersweet, and stranger-than-fiction tales about people who are not so different after all. In 1982 I went to this village with my then-husband to meet my in-laws. None of the villagers had ever seen an American or heard a foreigner speaking Turkish, so I was quite a novelty! Each day curious onlookers would gather at the house to stare and ask me questions . . . my sisters-in-law, feeling obliged to protect me, would try to shoo them all away. Four-year-old Yucel was persistent: he followed me everywhere while solemnly declaring, "Your eyes are green, your hair is white." When the time came for us to leave, he asked if he could keep me in exchange for one of his toy trucks.
Download or read book Farid Ad Din Att r s Memorial of God s Friends written by Farid al-Din Attar and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the lives and sayings of some of the most renowned figures in the Islamic Sufi tradition, translated into a contemporary American English from the Persian of the poet Farid al-Din 'Att'r.
Download or read book The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin written by and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining and insightful retelling of the Nasruddin corpus by a noted anthologist and lifelong Nasruddin devotee brings the beloved Persian folk hero into the 21st century. With more than 343 stories, this collection easily becomes the definitive English anthology of Mullah Nasruddin's wit and wisdom.
Download or read book A Turkish and English Lexicon written by Sir James William Redhouse and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 2246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islam in Historical Perspective written by Alexander Knysh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam in Historical Perspective provides readers with an introduction to Islam, Islamic history and societies with carefully selected historical and scriptural evidence that enables them to form a comprehensive and balanced vision of Islam’s rise and evolution across the centuries and up to the present day. Combining historical and chronological approaches, the book examines intellectual dialogues and socio-political struggles within the extraordinary rich Islamic tradition. Treating Islam as a social and political force, the book also addresses Muslim devotional practices, artistic creativity and the structures of everyday existence. Islam in Historical Perspective is designed to help readers to develop personal empathy for the subject by relating it to their own experiences and burning issues of today. It contains a wealth of historical anecdotes and quotations from original sources that are intended to emphasize its principal points in a memorable way. This new edition features a thoroughly revised and updated text, new illustrations, expanded study questions and chapter summaries.
Download or read book Divine Invasion written by Michael L. Monhollon and published by Reflection Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional account of the New Testament story of the times surrounding the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
Download or read book Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Summer in Turkey written by John Sykes and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A turkish and english Lexicon shewing in english the significations of the turkish terms written by James W. Redhouse and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 2246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Beyond the River written by Monica Whitlock and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the banks of the river once called Oxus lie the heartlands of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Catapulted into the news by events in Afghanistan, just across the water, these strategically important, intriguing and beautiful countries remain almost completely unknown to the outside world. In this book, Monica Whitlock goes far beyond the headlines. Using eyewitness accounts, unpublished letters and firsthand reporting, she enters into the lives of the Central Asians and reveals a dramatic and moving human story unfolding over three generations. There is Muhammadjan, called 'Hindustani', a diligent seminary student in the holy city of Bukhara until the 1917 revolution tore up the old order. Exiled to Siberia as a shepherd and then conscripted into the Red Army, he survived to become the inspiration for a new generation of clerics. Henrika was one of tens of thousands of Poles who walked and rode through Central Asia on their way to a new life in Iran, where she lives to this day. Then there were the proud Pioneer children who grew up in the certainty that the Soviet Union would last forever, only to find themselves in a new world that they had never imagined. In Central Asia, the extraordinary is commonplace and there is not a family without a remarkable story to tell. Land Beyond the River is both a chronicle of a century and a clear-eyed, authoritative view of contemporary events.
Download or read book Favourite Tales of Nasreddin Hoca written by Ron J. Suresha and published by Bear Bones Books. This book was released on 2020-02-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nasreddin Hoca, also known as Mullah Nasruddin, is an eight-centuries-old “wise fool” character originating in Turkey and the Levant, and the subject of thousands of funny, wise tales, jokes, and anecdotes told across the Middle and Far East, and retold today around the world. Extensively researched and carefully chosen from beloved authentic sources by an award-winning author, these pithy stories and folk tales are certain to bring readers a smile, nod, or chuckle of self-recognition on every page. More than one hundred of Nasreddin Hoca’s most endearing, enduring stories, gathered here by an award-winning author, will amuse, illuminate, and captivate readers of all ages with Hoca’s ageless, unique humour and universal humanity.
Download or read book The New Middle East written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin written by and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-anticipated sequel to the award-winning collection detailing the exploits of the beloved 800-year-old Turkish "wise fool," Mullah Nasruddin, presents well over 250 hilarious and authentic folktales, dozens appearing in English for the first time. Author Suresha has done extensive research to unearth many of these centuries-old racy tales of the "naughty Nasruddin"-stories previously suppressed for moralistic reasons-which explore taboo themes as the Mullah interacts with his family, community, and strangers during his many journeys. Readers will be amused as well as amazed by this unadulterated account of the truly Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin.
Download or read book written by Nuri Shafii and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Russian-Persian wars of 1780-1828, in the foothills of the Ararat Mountains, a Russian aristocrat falls in love with a Persian Prince. The cultural differences between the two young lovers forge a climactic milieu while the hostilities between their countries create an engaging background.
Download or read book Shadowless written by Hasan Ali Toptas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A knotty, postmodern tale. The quicksilver narrative slips between dream, memory and reality ... A beguiling enigma' Financial Times In an Anatolian village forgotten both by God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the sixteenth successive year. When he staggers to bed that night, drunk on raki and his own well-deserved success, the village is prosperous. But when he is woken by his wife the next evening he discovers that Nuri, the barber, has disappeared without a trace in the dead of night, and the community begins to fracture. In a nameless town far, far away, Nuri walks into a barbershop as if from a dream, not knowing how he has arrived. Try as he might, he cannot grasp the strands of his memory. The facts of his past life shift and evade him, and as other customers come and go, they too struggle to recall how they got there... Blurring the lines of reality to terrific effect, Shadowless is both a compelling mystery and an enduring evocation of displacement from one of the finest, most exciting voices in Turkish literature today.
Download or read book Fire Snow and Honey written by Gina Lennox and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a definitive collection of Kurdish literature, published in English or translated. In fiction, essays, poetry, fables, and candid life stories, this book brings out the heritage of the Kurds. It does not shy away from painful realities, such as physical humiliation of women.
Download or read book Desert Insurgency written by Nicholas J. Saunders and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the desert sands of southern Jordan lies a once-hidden conflict landscape along the Hejaz Railway. Built at the beginning of the twentieth-century, this narrow-gauge 1,320 km track stretched from Damascus to Medina and served to facilitate participation in the annual Muslim Hajj to Mecca. The discovery and archaeological investigation of an unknown landscape of insurgency and counter-insurgency along this route tells a different story of the origins of modern guerrilla warfare, the exploits of T. E. Lawrence, Emir Feisal, and Bedouin warriors, and the dramatic events of the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. Ten years of research in this prehistoric terrain has revealed sites lost for almost 100 years: vast campsites occupied by railway builders; Ottoman Turkish machine-gun redoubts; Rolls Royce Armoured Car raiding camps; an ephemeral Royal Air Force desert aerodrome; as well as the actual site of the Hallat Ammar railway ambush. This unique and richly illustrated account from Nicholas Saunders tells, in intimate detail, the story of a seminal episode of the First World War and the reshaping of the Middle East that followed.
