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Book Sultana s Legacy

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  • Author : Lisa J. Yarde
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-09-01
  • ISBN : 9781939138125
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Sultana s Legacy written by Lisa J. Yarde and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book #2 of the Sultana series. In thirteenth-century Moorish Spain, the Sultanate of Granada faces a bleak future, as a tyrant seizes control. Fatima, the daughter of a Sultan, and her devoted husband Faraj have enjoyed years of peace and prosperity. Now, a power-hungry madman claims the throne. He murders almost everyone Fatima holds dear. His reign fractures a weakened Sultanate, under siege from Christian kingdoms to the north and Moorish dynasties in the south. Fatima must preserve the legacy of her forefathers at all costs. She risks everything, even the love and trust of her husband. Amidst treachery and intrigue, she stands alone against her adversaries, determined to avenge terrible losses. Can she survive the test of divided loyalties and shocking betrayals?

Book Legacy

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  • Author : Danielle Steel
  • Publisher : Dell
  • Release : 2011-09-27
  • ISBN : 0440245168
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Legacy written by Danielle Steel and published by Dell. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First time in paperback! This compelling, centuries-spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women—a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown. LEGACY At the age of thirty-eight, Brigitte Nicholson has a job she likes, a man she loves, and a book she’s writing that she will finish—someday. Someday is Brigitte’s watchword. Someday she and Ted will clarify their relationship. Someday she will stop playing it so safe. Then, on a snowy day in Boston, Brigitte’s life is jolted and everything she has counted on changes. As she struggles to plot a new course, Brigitte agrees to help her mother on a family genealogy project and makes a stunning discovery that reaches back to the French aristocracy. How did Brigitte’s mysterious ancestor Wachiwi, a Dakota Sioux, travel from the Great Plains to the French court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette? How did she come to marry into Brigitte’s family? What is the truth behind the tantalizing clues in the fragmented, centuries-old records? Traveling from South Dakota to Paris, following the threads of Wachiwi’s life, Brigitte finds herself in the forefront of her own story. With a powerful family legacy coming to life around her, someday is no longer in the future. Instead, in Danielle Steel’s mesmerizing novel, someday is now.

Book Schooner Sultana

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  • Author : Drew McMullen
  • Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780870335389
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Schooner Sultana written by Drew McMullen and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McMullen (former project director for the Sultana and photographer Niemeyer tell the story of the Sultana, a reproduction of an 18th- century schooner designed to be a floating classroom on the Chesapeake Bay. The text and color photographs describe the day-to-day construction of the vessel and the shipwrights, craftspeople, and volunteers who helped to complete it. Other chapters provide information about the original ship purchased by the British Navy for use as a revenue schooner to patrol East Coast harbors. Oversize: 9.5x12.5". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Sultana

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  • Author : Alan Huffman
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-03-24
  • ISBN : 0061470546
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Sultana written by Alan Huffman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most riveting war stories I have ever read….Huffman’s smooth, intimate prose ushers you through this nightmare as if you were living it yourself.” —Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm The dramatic true story of the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history, Alan Huffman’s Sultana brings to breathtaking life a tragic, long forgotten event in America’s Civil War—the sinking of the steamship Sultana and the loss of 1,700 lives, mostly Union soldiers returning home from Confederate prison camps. A gripping account that reads like a nonfiction Cold Mountain, Sultana is powerful, moving, rich in irony and fascinating historical detail—a story no history aficionado or Civil War buff will want to miss.

Book Sultana

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  • Author : Lisa J. Yarde
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-09
  • ISBN : 9781939138101
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Sultana written by Lisa J. Yarde and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book of the Sultana Series. In 13th-century Moorish Spain, the realm of Granada is in crisis. The union of Fatima, granddaughter of the Sultan of Granada, with the Sultan's nephew Faraj has fractured the nation. A bitter civil war escalates and endangers both Fatima's and Faraj's lives. All her life, Fatima has sheltered in lavish palaces where danger has never intruded, until now. A precocious child and the unwitting pawn of her family, she soon learns how her marriage may determine her future and the fate of Granada. Her husband Faraj has his own qualms about their union. At a young age, he witnessed the deaths of his parents and discovered how affluence and power offers little protection against indomitable enemies. Guilt and fears plague him. Determined to carve his own destiny, Faraj struggles to regain his lost inheritance and avenge his murdered family. Throughout the rugged frontiers of southern Spain, the burgeoning Christian kingdoms in the north and the desert states of North Africa, Fatima and Faraj survive ruthless murderers and intrigues. They unite against common enemies bent on destroying the last Moorish dynasty. While Fatima and Faraj establish a powerful bond, the atmosphere of deceit creates opportunities for mistrust, and tests their love.

Book Sultana   s Sisters

Download or read book Sultana s Sisters written by Haris Qadeer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the genealogy of ‘women’s fiction’ in South Asia and looks at the interesting and fascinating world of fiction by Muslim women. It explores how Muslim women have contributed to the growth and development of genre fiction in South Asia and brings into focus diverse genres, including speculative, horror, campus fiction, romance, graphic, dystopian amongst others, from the early 20th century to the present. The book debunks myths about stereotypical representations of South Asian Muslim women and critically explores how they have located their sensibilities, body, religious/secular identities, emotions, and history, and have created a space of their own. It discusses works by authors such as Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Hijab Imtiaz Ali, Mrs. Abdul Qadir, Muhammadi Begum, Abbasi Begum, Khadija Mastur, Qurratulain Hyder, Wajida Tabbasum, Attia Hosain, Mumtaz Shah Nawaz, Selina Hossain, Shaheen Akhtar, Bilquis Sheikh, Gulshan Esther, Maha Khan Phillips, Zahida Zaidi, Bina Shah, Andaleeb Wajid, and Ayesha Tariq. A volume full of remarkable discoveries for the field of genre fiction, both in South Asia and for the wider world, this book, in the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series, will be useful for scholars and researchers of English literary studies, South Asian literature, cultural studies, history, Islamic feminism, religious studies, gender and sexuality, sociology, translation studies, and comparative literatures.

Book Herd Register

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  • Author : American Jersey Cattle Club
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 776 pages

Download or read book Herd Register written by American Jersey Cattle Club and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shadow of the Sultan s Realm

Download or read book Shadow of the Sultan s Realm written by Daniel Allen Butler and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the modern Middle East from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.

Book Sultana  The Pomegranate Tree  A Novel of Moorish Spain

Download or read book Sultana The Pomegranate Tree A Novel of Moorish Spain written by Lisa J. Yarde and published by Sultana. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book #5 of the Sultana series. In fifteenth-century Moorish Spain, Aisha, descendant of the Sultans of Granada finds herself powerless against fate. The pawn of her drunken, murderous father, she endures a sham marriage to a cruel tyrant, forever divided from the man who has claimed her heart. Years later, when a harem rival threatens to undo all that Aisha has achieved, she must preserve her children's future or see her family fall forever.

Book Sultan Bahoo   A Living Legacy

Download or read book Sultan Bahoo A Living Legacy written by Dr. Z. A. Awan and published by Al-Arifeen Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This presentation is a Reason for Reminder once again by a dearest special friend of Allah, Sultan Bahoo, who is a graceful gift of God in this continent and is known as Sultan-ul-Arifeen, a born sanctified, Wali Allah blessed by divine knowledge in a revelatory reason of Cognitive Comprehension . The voluminous literature with a cultural format is so unique in spiritual impetus for a Self- Searching Seeker Al-Arif to be cognizant with prescribed prescriptions of Arifana Kalaam . Sultan Bahoo who pleads and appeals for the healing head, heart to be awake to get the real vision of guidance from the spiritual values of Deen-Al-Islam, especially the cognition of your Creator, The Oneness, the Lord of Providence, the Provider. Sultan Bahoo did live and have a live legacy as a Mujahid (Defender of Faith Sh riah) as well as a Mujaded (Revitalization of tawheed; Spiritual values of Prophet (peace be upon him).

Book Annual report

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  • Author : Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society Agricultural Department
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Annual report written by Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society Agricultural Department and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Between God and the Sultan

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  • Author : Knut S. Vikør
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780195223972
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Between God and the Sultan written by Knut S. Vikør and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contrast between religion and law has been continuous throughout Muslim history. Islamic law has always existed in a tension between these two forces: God, who gave the law, and the state--the sultan--representing society and implementing the law. This tension and dynamic have created a very particular history for the law--in how it was formulated and by whom, in its theoretical basis and its actual rules, and in how it was practiced in historical reality from the time of its formation until today. That is the main theme of this book. Knut S. Vikor introduces the development and practice of Islamic law to a wide readership: students, lawyers, and the growing number of those interested in Islamic civilization. He summarizes the main concepts of Islamic jurisprudence; discusses debates concerning the historicity of Islamic sources of dogma and the dating of early Islamic law; describes the classic practice of the law, in the formulation and elaboration of legal rules and practice in the courts; and sets out various substantive legal rules, on such vital matters as the family and economic activity.

Book Sultana

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  • Author : Lisa J. Yarde
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-10-01
  • ISBN : 9781939138132
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Sultana written by Lisa J. Yarde and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book #3 of the Sultana series. In fourteenth-century Spain, former friends vie for a man's heart and the future of his kingdom. Both women are captives sold into the harem of Sultan Yusuf I of Moorish Granada. A young girl with a hidden heritage, Esperanza Peralta, forges a new identity as Butayna and becomes the mother of Yusuf's firstborn son.The Jewess Miriam Alubel takes the name Maryam and also bears Yusuf's children, including two sons. The clash between former friends is inevitable, as each finds diverging paths in a dizzying rise to power beside their husband. Both remain aware of the struggle ahead, for only one heir may inherit Yusuf's throne and only one woman can claim the revered title, Mother of the Sultan.

Book The Sultan s Feast

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  • Author : Ibn Mubārak Shāh
  • Publisher : Saqi Books
  • Release : 2020-11-16
  • ISBN : 0863561810
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book The Sultan s Feast written by Ibn Mubārak Shāh and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabic culinary tradition burst onto the scene in the middle of the tenth century, when al-Warrāq compiled a culinary treatise titled al-Kitab al-Tabikh (The Book of Dishes) containing over 600 recipes. It would take another three and half centuries for cookery books to be produced in the European continent. Until then, gastronomic writing remained the sole preserve of the Arab-Muslim world, with cooking manuals and recipe books being written from Baghdad, Aleppo and Egypt in the East, to Muslim Spain, Morocco and Tunisia in the West. A total of nine complete cookery books have survived from this time, containing nearly three thousand recipes. First published in the fifteenth century, The Sultan's Feast by the Egyptian Ibn Mubārak Shāh features more than 330 recipes, from bread-making and savoury stews, to sweets, pickling and aromatics, as well as tips on a range of topics. This culinary treatise reveals the history of gastronomy in Arab culture. Available in English for the first time, this critical bilingual volume offers a unique insight into the world of medieval Arabic gastronomic writing.

Book Render unto the Sultan

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  • Author : Tom Papademetriou
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2015-02-05
  • ISBN : 0191027723
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Render unto the Sultan written by Tom Papademetriou and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The received wisdom about the nature of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire is that Sultan Mehmed II reestablished the Patriarchate of Constantinople as both a political and a religious authority to govern the post-Byzantine Greek community. However, relations between the Church hierarchy and Turkish masters extend further back in history, and closer scrutiny of these relations reveals that the Church hierarchy in Anatolia had long experience dealing with Turkish emirs by focusing on economic arrangements. Decried as scandalous, these arrangements became the modus vivendi for bishops in the Turkish emirates. Primarily concerned with the economic arrangements between the Ottoman state and the institution of the Greek Orthodox Church from the mid-fifteenth to the sixteenth century, Render Unto the Sultan argues that the Ottoman state considered the Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical hierarchy primarily as tax farmers (mültezim) for cash income derived from the church's widespread holdings. The Ottoman state granted individuals the right to take their positions as hierarchs in return for yearly payments to the state. Relying on members of the Greek economic elite (archons) to purchase the ecclesiastical tax farm (iltizam), hierarchical positions became subject to the same forces of competition that other Ottoman administrative offices faced. This led to colorful episodes and multiple challenges to ecclesiastical authority throughout Ottoman lands. Tom Papademetriou demonstrates that minority communities and institutions in the Ottoman Empire, up to now, have been considered either from within the community, or from outside, from the Ottoman perspective. This new approach allows us to consider internal Greek Orthodox communal concerns, but from within the larger Ottoman social and economic context. Render Unto the Sultan challenges the long established concept of the 'Millet System', the historical model in which the religious leader served both a civil as well as a religious authority. From the Ottoman state's perspective, the hierarchy was there to serve the religious and economic function rather than the political one.

Book The Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi

Download or read book The Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi written by Jacqueline Park and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in sixteenth-century Istanbul during the illustrious Ottoman Empire, The Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi chronicles the fate of Grazia’s son, Danilo, and his forbidden love affair with Princess Saida, the Sultan’s beloved daughter. Judah del Medigo, Jewish physician to the Sultan at the Ottoman court and husband of Grazia dei Rossi, has been misinformed that his son, Danilo, perished at sea on the way to Istanbul. When the two are eventually reunited, Judah’s first thought is to resign from the Sultan’s service to devote himself to his son’s recovery. But the Great Suleiman is not about to give up his valued Chief Body Physician. A ruler accustomed to getting his way, the Sultan proposes a bargain: he offers the boy a place in the harem school for royal children, plus the services of his own mother as guardian while the doctor is absent during campaign season in Baghdad. It is an opportunity that Judah cannot deny his son. Danilo is assigned as his tutor the princess Saida, the Sultan’s beloved daughter. At first the two resent each other deeply. But as Danilo and Saida approach adulthood they fall in love and begin a forbidden romance. Fate has decreed that Saida will marry a husband of the Sultan’s choosing, and Danilo will return to Italy to study medicine just as his father did. For a princess preparing for marriage, a dalliance with an unrelated male would cast a stain on the Sultan’s honour that could only be avenged by death... A tantalizing look at life in the Ottoman court, The Legacy of Grazia dei Rossi is a sweeping historical romance and the long-awaited follow-up to the international sensation The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi.

Book Kingdom of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan

Download or read book Kingdom of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan written by Mahmood Khan Mahmood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their Kingdom lasted between 1760-1799 Hyder Ali fought two wars with British and died a natural death in 1782 Nawab of Arcot, Maharanis of Mysore, Nizam of Hyderabad Supported British East India Company and Maratha Empire fought against Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan Tipu Sultans own ministers and commanders betrayed him. Tipu Sultan fought two wars with British East India Company He was martyred in the fourth war of Srirangapatam in 1799. Later British East India Company ruled India until 1947 Mausoleum of Tippu Sultan, his father Hyder Ali and mother Fathima Begum. This Mausoleum was built by Tipu Sultan himself. Read in full detail with quotations and illustrations Translated and compiled by: Anwar Haroon