Author: Heather Colyer Ross
Publisher: Arabesque
Keywords: arabian, profile, saudi, costume, art
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1981
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 090751300X
ISBN-13: 9780907513001
Authors:B.R. Pridham, J.R. Smart, G. Rex Smith,
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Keywords: new, studies, arabian, press, exeter, volume, university
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0859897060
ISBN-13: 9780859897068
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion. It provides authoritative information intended to appeal to both the specialist and general reader. Both the traditional and the modern aspects of Arabia are covered, excluding contemporary controversial politics. Contributions byHussein Abdullah al-Amri, Elizabeth Lambourn, James Onley, Clive Smith, G. Rex Smith, Francine Lida Stone and Abdullah A. Yateem
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Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: nights, arabian
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 1420931709
ISBN-13: 9781420931709
Drawing from the famous translation of Sir Richard Burton, "The Arabian Nights" is a selection of the voluminous "One Thousand and One Nights", a collection of ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian literature. Many readers will recognize the more famous of these tales: "Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor". These exciting and mystical tales can be found in this uncensored and authoritatively noted edition along with thirty-five additional stories.
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Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: xii, vol, volumes, nights, arabian
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1605206008
ISBN-13: 9781605206004
Notorious for the delight he took in tweaking the sexual taboos of the Victorian age-as well as the delight he took in the resulting shock of his bashful peers-British adventurer, linguist, and author CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (1821-1890) is perhaps best remembered for his unexpurgated translation of the Eastern classic The One Thousand and One Nights, more famously known today as The Arabian Nights. Originating in Persian, Indian, and Arabic sources as far back as the ninth century AD, this collection of bawdy tales-which Burton was the first to bring to English readers in uncenso
Author: Muhsin Mahdi
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: nights, arabian
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 1990-09-13
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0393313670
ISBN-13: 9780393313673
This work is based on Muhsin Mahdi’s reconstruction of the original Nights. The tales portray a world of magic, wish-fulfillment and pleasure, depicting the marriage of the supernatural to the ordinary and the sacred to the profane.
Author: Diana Abu-Jaber
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: novel, jazz, arabian
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-04
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0393324222
ISBN-13: 9780393324228
Author: Lind Weber
Publisher: American Federation of Astrologer
Keywords: decoded, parts, arabian
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 1996-04-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0866904719
ISBN-13: 9780866904711
The Arabian Parts Decoded is an all-encompassing work on the ancient techniques of the Arabian Parts, also called Points, Lots, and Fortunes. First used more than 2,000 years ago, their mystique has survived and thrived throughout the centuries. Lind Weber, an astrologer who has calculated and studied thousands of Parts as they apply to various events, thoroughly explains how to formulate the Arabian Parts for any event or question. He reveals the startling discoveries he made regarding the calculation of the Parts, thus taking their use to a new level. Also in this dynamic volume, which inclu
