Download or read book Suleiman s Sword written by Chuck Nance and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terror grips the world as Islamic fundamentalists take over the governments of Muslim nations. Global jihad begins with terrorist attacks in America’s heartland and the violence quickly spreads to foreign embassies. An Iranian submarine kidnaps Senator Durand, his wife Sasha, and lovely daughter Lynn from their yacht in the Caribbean. The President of Russia, Sasha’s uncle, detains her and Lynn at his estate on the Black Sea when Russia joins with Islam World Nation and supplies arms for their conquest. Will CIA operatives Kamal Mirza and Rose O’Grady defeat pirates, al-Qaeda, and a renegade sheik to free the hostages and avert Armageddon?
Download or read book The Sword and the Scimitar written by David W. Ball and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maltese Siblings Nico and Maria are suddenly wrenched apart when young Nico is abducted by slavers. Some unforeseen path leads him to the court of Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottomans. Maria, stranded alone in Malta, joins a group of Jews – forced by their Christian rulers to renounce their faith. French aristocrat Christien deVries yearns to prove himself as a surgeon in the Order of St. John, to which he was pledged as an infant but joined only as a result of a life-altering oath. When conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Christian alliance, resulting in the Siege of Malta, Maria, Nico and Christien will be forced together, in a sequence of events that may decide the victor... A sweeping historical epic set against the backdrop of the desperate conflict between Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire, The Sword and the Scimitar is a triumph, perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow, Christian Cameron and Bernard Cornwell
Download or read book Sulaiman written by Athar Mudasir and published by Lieper publication. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story about a curious historian and scientist who is on the hunt for an ancient relic, a jewel that lies in the underworld. A treasure hidden from mankind for thousands of years. He and his team travel most of the world to seek the relics to discover the dark secrets of the past and levy a milestone in the history of mankind. In his advent, his hunt stops in the valley of Kashmir. Which changed his life forever. The adventure induced serious life-threatening incidences and circumstances, but yet he finds blessings in disguise. He also faces the tribes of demons and meanwhile he gets jacked by a demon girl and she takes him in the heart of the underworld. The world which is a fable it forms to a harsh reality for him and for mankind. A reader will find mesmerizing imagination of the unseen world through the words of the author.
Download or read book The Necromancer s Bargain written by SHYAM SATHISH and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2023-02-19 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book tells the story of a powerful necromancer who uses his dark powers to defend his city from invading forces. He creates an army of the undead to fight alongside the living, but in doing so, he must face the consequences of his actions and the disapproval of those around him. As the story unfolds, the necromancer struggles with the weight of his choices and seeks redemption for his past mistakes. He faces betrayal from those he thought were his allies, but ultimately finds a way to redeem himself in the eyes of the people he once harmed. The book explores themes of power, responsibility, redemption, and the consequences of one's actions. It follows the journey of a flawed character who seeks to right his wrongs and make a positive impact on the world around him.
Download or read book The Shadow of God written by Anthony Goodman and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tremendously vivid historical encounter becomes a larger-than-life canvas for this brilliant saga. The year is 1522. Two great leaders, twenty-five-year-old Suleiman the Magnificent, the absolute ruler of the mighty Ottoman Empire, and Philippe de L'Isle Adam, the grisly, fifty-eight-year-old Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, come to war on the Greek island of Rhodes. For 145 days, Philippe and 500 European Knights fight to protect their fortressed city and withstand an assault of nearly 200,000 men from Suleiman's army, in a battle that becomes the historic hallmark for siege warfare. Authentic in all its historical detail, The Shadow of God evokes a seismic clash of cultures: Muslim versus Christian, the Ottoman Empire versus the last remaining Knights of the Crusades and, most important, two of the most powerful men of their time. Embedded in this fictional account is the secret marriage of a lovely Jewish nurse to her Christian French Knight, as well as the forbidden love of the Grand Master for the beautiful Helene. An epic of bravery and courage, The Shadow of God weaves a tapestry of beauty, terror and triumph set in a forgotten time of brutality and courage, loyalty and honor. "So vividly rendered that historical fiction fans and medieval history enthusiasts will be crossing their fingers for a follow-up."—Publishers Weekly "An engaging and well-written fictional account of the Ottoman Turks' 145-day siege of the Greek island of Rhodes."—Library Journal
Download or read book Suleiman s Ring written by Sherif Meleka and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanted ring brings good fortune to an Egyptian oud player in this compelling novel combining elements of magical realism with political history Can one man or a mere ring alter the events of one’s life and the history of a country? Combining elements of magical realism with momentous history, Suleiman’s Ring poses these questions and more in a gripping tale of friendship, identity, and the fate of a nation. Alexandria, Egypt, on the eve of the 1952 Free Officers revolution. Daoud, a struggling musician, is summoned with his best friend Sheikh Hassanein to a meeting with Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, who seeks their help as he mobilizes for the revolution. Daoud lends Nasser an enchanted silver ring for its powers to bring good luck. The revolution succeeds but Daoud soon grows estranged from Hassanein, who has joined the Muslim Brotherhood, after he suggests that Daoud leave Egypt since as a Jew he is no longer welcome. When Hassanein is arrested, however, destiny draws Daoud into a complex web of sexual intrigue and betrayal that threatens to upend his already precarious existence. Set against the backdrop of the simmering political tensions of mid-twentieth-century Egypt and the Arab–Israeli wars, Sherif Meleka’s story of fate and fortune transports us to another time and place while peeling back the curtain on events that still haunt the country to this day.
Download or read book Blue Blooded Tribesman written by A. T. AlHooti and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabs have many prominent traits that render them immune to many facets of life that are negative. This story runs around Sheikh Sultan who comes from Najran; a beautiful city in the middle of Arabia. He conjures about dreams and develops ideas and travels around the world to quench his insatiable appetite for travel.
Download or read book The Ship of Sulaiman written by O'Kane John and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published 1972. The Ship of Sulaiman is an account of a Persian embassy which went to Siam in the latter part of the seventeenth century. The work is a translation of a manuscript in the British Museum, and is an account put together by a scrfibe who accompanied the mission to Siam. The principal focus is on the community of resident Iranians and the important role, which, prior to the embassy’s arrival, the Iranians had been playing in the trade and political affairs of Siam.
Download or read book Assassin s Creed written by Oliver Bowden and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 2000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected together for the first time, all eight Assassin's Creed novels based on the phenomenally successful gaming series. Fans of the game will love these stories. Titles in this Collection include: Underworld, Unity, Black Flag, Forsaken, Revelations, The Secret Crusade, Brotherhood, Renaissance. The covert war between two secret organizations, the shadowy Templar Knights and the elite Order of Assassins, has been raging for millennia. Following the murder of his father and brothers, Ezio Auditore di Firenze is entrusted with an ancient Codex, the key to a conspiracy that goes back to centuries. Ezio must avenge the deaths of his kinsmen and in doing so fulfil his destiny, and live by the laws of the Assassin's Creed. Ezio's quest will test him to his limits. And in such treacherous times, conspiracy is everywhere, even within the ranks of the brotherhood itself . . . We work in the dark to serve the light. We are assassins.
Download or read book Beyond The Spanish Tragedy written by Lukas Erne and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in more than thirty years on the playwright who is arguably Shakespeare's most important tragic predecessor. In Lukas Erne's book, The Spanish Tragedy - the most popular of all plays on the English Renaissance stage - receives the extensive scholarly and criticaltreatment it deserves, including a full reception and modern stage history. Yet as Erne shows, Thomas Kyd is much more than the author of a single masterpiece. Don Horatio (partly extant in The First Part of Hieronimo), the lost early Hamlet, Soliman and Perseda, and Cornelia all belong to whatemerges in this study for the first time as a coherent dramatic oeuvre.
Download or read book The Concept of Just War in Judaism Christianity and Islam written by Georges Tamer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Jews, Christians and Muslims, as for all human beings, military conflicts and war remain part of the reality of the world. The authoritative writings of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, namely the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Koran, as well as the theological and philosophical traditions based on them, bear witness to this fact. Showing the influence of different historical political situations, various views – sometimes quite similar, sometimes more divergent -- have developed in the three religions to justify the waging of war under certain circumstances. Such views have also been integrated in different ways into legal systems while, in certain cases, theologies have provide legitimation for military expansion and atrocities. The aim of the volume The Concept of Just War in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is to explore the respective understanding of “just war” in each one of these three religions and to make their commonalities and differences discursively visible. In addition, it highlights and explains the significance of the topic to the present time. Can the concepts developed in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions in order to justify war, serve as a foundation for contemporary peace ethics? Or do religious arguments always add fuel to the fire in armed conflict? The contributions in this volume will help provide answers to these and other socially and politically relevant questions.
Download or read book Practices of Coexistence written by Marcell Sebok and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book provide interesting contributions to the ongoing debate concerning the representation of differing cultures, i.e., the ?image of the Other? in the early modern period . They deal with images, projections, and perceptions, based on various experiences of coexistence. Although the individual contributions contain sources and references of iconography, this is not just another volume of art history or visual studies. As examples of practices in diverse historical contexts, the book includes a variety of textual material, such as literary productions, rhetorical exercises, dramatic applications, chronicles, epistles, and diary-like historical accounts that express ethnographic sensitivities. Thus, supported by a thorough research apparatus, these studies propose a new cultural history of the early modern coexistence of various communities, as identified in current research by young scholars. Another novel feature of the volume is the deliberate digression of traditional scholars? focus and the investigation of rarely examined regions and practices. This approach allows the contributors to spotlight their special areas of research and to share a fresh new look at ?the Renaissance.? ÿ
Download or read book The Thousand and One Nights written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Swifts A Gallery of Rogues written by Beth Lincoln and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shenanigan Swift is headed to Paris, where new mysteries await in the hilarious, quick-witted sequel to Beth Lincoln’s #1 New York Times bestseller, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels. “Abundant wordplay and humor will keep the pages turning.″ —Kirkus, starred review Now that the family reunion is over and the murderer has been caught, Shenanigan Swift can return to important projects, like searching for the long-lost family treasure. But trouble always finds Shenanigan, and when a valuable painting is stolen from Swift House by a group of eccentric art thieves known as Ouvolpo, she is determined to get it back—even if it means chasing them all the way to Paris. A new adventure is about to begin, and Shenanigan’s sleuthing skills will soon be tested like never before. A Gallery of Rogues is the highly anticipated sequel to Beth Lincoln’s celebrated debut, A Dictionary of Scoundrels. Beloved characters are back, joined by a fresh flock of relatives from the French branch of the Swift family tree—the Martinets, including Cousins Soufflé, Mercredi, Contraire, and Pomme. Get ready to say bonjour to more secrets, more bodies, and even more fun, in this delicious mystery that once again celebrates words, family, and plenty of shenanigans.
Download or read book Seven Years in the Soudan written by Romolo Gessi and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night Volume II Esprios Classics written by John Payne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1882 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Bible Kabzeel Red heifer written by Sir William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
