Download or read book The Sons of Fez written by Kay Hardy Campbell and published by Loon Cove Press. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Maine Literary Award Finalist. Moroccan tour guide Ibrahim brings a busload of students from a summer Arabic program to stay in the medina (old city) of Fez, right next door to a newly-opened time portal. When a student goes missing, Ibrahim looks for him and slips into the past, where they find themselves in a fight to save the city. Along the way they come face to face with the mysteries of the medina, where history lives around every corner.
Download or read book Concubines and Courtesans written by Matthew S. Gordon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays that consider, from a variety of viewpoints, enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays bring together arguments regarding slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production (songs, poetry and instrumental music), sexuality, Islamic family law, and religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time. They range over nearly 1000 years of Islamic history - from the early, formative period (seventh to tenth century C.E.) to the late Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal eras (sixteenth to eighteenth century C.E.) - and regions from al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) to Central Asia (Timurid Iran). The close, common thread joining the essays is an effort to account for the lives, careers and representations of female slaves and freed women participating in, and contributing to, elite urban society of the Islamic realm. Interest in a gendered approach to Islamic history, society and religion has by now deep roots in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. The shared aim of the essays collected here is to get at the wealth of these topics, and to underscore their centrality to a firm grasp on Islamic and Middle Eastern history.
Download or read book Royal Genealogies Or The Genealogical Tables Of Emperors Kings and Princes From Adam to These Times In Two Parts written by James Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1736 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill of sale : bought of Walford Brothers 1938 July 20 by Mrs. Virgil Idol.
Download or read book An Abridgment of Universal History written by Edward William WHITAKER and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The History and Description of Africa and of the Notable Things therein contained written by Robert Brown and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing Book I of the original, edited, with an introduction and notes. This and the following two volumes (First Series 93 and 94) have continuous pagination. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1896.
Download or read book The History of the Second Queen s Royal Regiment written by John Davis and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Bension Collection of Sephardic Manuscripts written by Saul I. Aranov and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1979 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue describes in precis form the contents of a magnificent collection of Sephardic manuscripts and texts that resides in the University of Alberta Library. The book also provides an excellent introduction to the Sephardic Jews who lived in North Africa after their expulsion from Spain in 1492.
Download or read book The History and Description of Africa written by Leo Africanus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1896) contains a description of northern Africa in the sixteenth century.
Download or read book Abridgment of Universal History written by Edward W. Whitaker (Rector of St. Mildred's and All Saints, Canterbury.) and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Last Civilized Place written by Ronald A. Messier and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[This] book reflects an effective integration of archaeological data with an urban history and can be model for the study of any pre-modern Muslim city.” —Jere Bacharach, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Washington, and author of Islamic History through Coins: An Analysis and Catalogue of Tenth-Century Ikhshidid Coins Set along the Sahara’s edge, Sijilmasa was an African El Dorado, a legendary city of gold. But unlike El Dorado, Sijilmasa was a real city, the pivot in the gold trade between ancient Ghana and the Mediterranean world. Following its emergence as an independent city-state controlling a monopoly on gold during its first 250 years, Sijilmasa was incorporated into empire—Almoravid, Almohad, and onward—leading to the “last civilized place” becoming the cradle of today’s Moroccan dynasty, the Alaouites. Sijilmasa’s millennium of greatness ebbed with periods of war, renewal, and abandonment. Today, its ruins lie adjacent to and under the modern town of Rissani, bypassed by time. The Moroccan-American Project at Sijilmasa draws on archaeology, historical texts, field reconnaissance, oral tradition, and legend to weave the story of how this fabled city mastered its fate. The authors’ deep local knowledge and interpretation of the written and ecological record allow them to describe how people and place molded four distinct periods in the city’s history. Messier and Miller compare models of Islamic cities to what they found on the ground to understand how Sijilmasa functioned as a city. Continuities and discontinuities between Sijilmasa and the contemporary landscape sharpen questions regarding the nature of human life on the rim of the desert. What, they ask, allows places like Sijilmasa to rise to greatness? What causes them to fall away and disappear into the desert sands?
Download or read book We Have Buried the Past written by Abdelkrim Ghallab and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abdelkrim Ghallab’s postcolonial We Buried the Past, originally published in 1966, was the first breakthrough Moroccan novel written in Arabic instead of French. Newly translated into English, this edition brings Ghallab’s most widely read and lauded work to a new audience. Written after the country gained independence, the historical novel follows two generations of al-Tihamis, a well-to-do family residing in Fez’s ancient medina. The family members’ lives reflect the profound social changes taking place in Morocco during that time. Bridging two worlds, We Buried the Past begins during the quieter days of the late colonial period, a world of seemingly timeless tradition, in which the patriarch, al-Haj Muhammad, proudly presides over the family. Here, religion is unquestioned and permeates all aspects of daily life. But the coming upheaval and imminent social transition are reflected in al-Haj’s three sons, particularly his second son, Abderrahman, who eventually defies his father and comes to symbolize the break between the old ways and the new. Noted for marrying classical Arabic style and European literary form, this book also offers insight into the life of Ghallab himself, who was deeply involved in the nationalist movement that led to Moroccan independence. A pioneering work, We Buried the Past beautifully characterizes an influential period in the history of Morocco.
Download or read book A New Universal Biography Forming the first volume of series III written by John Platts and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
