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An Arabian Journey: One Man's Quest Through the Heart of the Middle East
by Levison WoodThe acclaimed author of Walking the Americas shares his epic journey through the war-torn Arabian Peninsula in this fascinating travelogue.Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer Levison Wood brings us along on his most complex expedition yet: a circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula. Starting in September 2017 in a city in Northern Syria, a stone’s throw away from Turkey and amidst a deadly war, Wood set forth on a 5,000-mile trek through the most contested region on the planet.Wood moved through the Middle East for six months, from ISIS-occupied Iraq through Kuwait and along the jagged coastlines of the Emirates and Oman; across Yemen—in the midst of civil war—and on to Saudia Arabia, Jordan, and Israel, before ending on the shores of the Mediterranean in Lebanon. Like his predecessors, Wood travelled through some of the harshest and most beautiful environments on earth, seeking to challenge our perceptions of this part of the world. Through the people he meets—and the personal histories and local mythologies they share—Wood examines how the region has changed over thousands of years and what it means to its people today.
An Arabian Marriage
by Lynne GrahamNanny Frederica Sutton was living happily with toddler Ben, the son of her deceased cousin. But the minute that Jaspar Al Hasayn stalks into her apartment--all smoldering gorgeousness and arrogance--her happy little world is blown apart when she discovers that Ben is part of the Quamar royal lineage and a prince's son--and she could lose him forever. When Jaspar's family decides to take matters into their own hands and kidnaps Ben, Freddy is both heartbroken and furious. If getting little Ben back means blackmailing Jaspar into marrying her, then so be it!As much as Freddy hates her cool-mannered new husband, there's something about his feral golden eyes--and she finds herself returning to his bed, night after ravenous night. Freddy's not just sleeping with the enemy--she's married to him.
Arabian Medicine and its Influence on the Middle Ages: Volume I (Trubner's Oriental Ser.)
by Donald CampbellThis is Volume II of six in the Arabic History and Culture collection. Originally published in 1926, this text is volume one of Arabian Medicine and its Influence on the Middle Ages and attempts to place before the reader the origin and development of Arabian Medicine and its subsequent cultivation among the Arabistae of the Latin west. The latter half of this volume is on Mediaeval Medicine, which is but a modification of Arabian Medicine as understood by the scholastics who based their systems on what are shown to be indifferent Latin versions of the Arabic writings of Islam, which in turn were versions of ~he Syriac translations of the Greek texts.
Arabian Medicine and its Influence on the Middle Ages: Volume II (Trubner's Oriental Ser.)
by Donald CampbellFirst Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Arabian Mistress: The Arabian Mistress The Desert Prince's Mistress (Passion Ser. #2182)
by Lynne GrahamA prince gets revenge on his ex-wife by forcing her to be his mistress in this sexy classic contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author.Begging for Prince Tariq Shazad ibn Zachir’s mercy was the last thing Faye wanted to do. She hadn’t seen Tariq for a year . . . since their wedding. But Faye’s brother was imprisoned in Tariq’s homeland, and only Tariq could grant his freedom.Faye expected her meeting with the man she’d married to be tough, but Tariq’s ultimatum took her breath away: become his mistress and her brother would be released!Originally published in 2001.
The Arabian Mistress and The Contaxis Baby: The Contaxis Baby
by Lynne GrahamTwo international romances from a USA Today–bestselling author, featuring powerful alpha males driven wild with passion.The Arabian MistressFaye Dawson dreaded the idea of begging for Prince Tariq Shazad ibn Zachir’s mercy. A year had passed since she’d last seen the man . . . on their wedding day! But Faye’s brother has been imprisoned in her estranged husband’s homeland and only Tariq could grant his release. Though Faye didn’t expect her meeting with the sheikh to be easy, Tariq’s ultimatum took her breath away—become his mistress and her brother would have his freedom!The Contaxis BabySocialite Lizzie Denton has been wrongly labeled a heartbreaker after a depressed young man dies in a horrific car crash. Though Lizzie would like to dispel the rumors, she made a promise not to tell anyone the truth. Greek tycoon Sebasten Contaxis is devastated by his half brother’s death and wants to punish the woman responsible. But when he discovers that the stunning beauty he can’t keep his hands off is the same woman he’s been seeking, Sebasten alters his scheme. After all, one broken heart deserves another, right?
The Arabian Nightmare: A Novel (Original Fiction In Paperback Ser.)
by Robert IrwinA cult classic that &“combines the genres of travelogue, fable, dream narrative, novel and confessional into one beguiling whole&” (Publishers Weekly). The hero and guiding force of this epic fantasy is an insomniac young man who, unable to sleep, guides the reader through the narrow streets of Cairo—a mysterious city full of deceit and trickery. He narrates a complex tangle of dreams and imaginings that describe an atmosphere constantly shifting between sumptuously learned experiences, erotic adventure, and dry humor. The result is a thought-provoking puzzle box of sex, philosophy, and theology, reminiscent of Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco. &“Deft and lovely . . . The smooth steely grip of Irwin&’s story-telling genius is a joy to read.&” —The Washington Post &“The Arabian Nightmare is a conceit worthy of Borges.&” —The New York Times &“[Irwin&’s] fascination for inner perception, helped along with a delight in Scheherazadian frames and exotic lore, makes for quite a rich experience: a strangely playful construct that, like an intricate Chinese box, delights with each unexpected combination and hidden drawer.&” —Kirkus Reviews
Arabian Nightmare: Number 86 in Series (The Destroyer #86)
by Richard Sapir Warren MurphyRemo and Chiun face a diabolical dictator and a female fiend in a middle eastern hell.
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 1
by Anonymous Robert Irwin Editor Introduction Malcolm C. Lyons Ursula LyonsThe most significant translation in one hundred years of one of the greatest works of world literature From Ali Baba and the forty thieves to the voyages of Sinbad, the stories of The Arabian Nights are timeless and unforgettable. Published here in three volumes, this magnificent new edition brings these tales to life for modern readers in the first complete English translation since Richard Burton’s of the 1880s. Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, and the next morning puts her to death. To end this brutal pattern, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king enchanting tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, of the Angel of Death and magical spirits, and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps—a sequence of stories that will last 1,001 nights, and that will save her own life.
The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales (First Avenue Classics ™)
by Various AuthorsWhen Scheherazade marries a ruthless king known for taking a new bride each night only to have his wife killed the next morning, she comes up with a clever plan to survive. Each night, she tells the king a story. And each morning, the king postpones her execution so he can hear how it ends. Scheherazade's stories continued for one thousand and one nights. The text was first translated from Arabic into English in the early eighteenth century. In the early twentieth century, American children's authors Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith selected and edited ten of the best-known stories to enchant young readers. Taken from the 1909 copyright edition, this collection of Middle Eastern folktales includes "The Story of Aladdin," "The Story of Sinbad the Voyager," and "The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves."
The Arabian Nights (Leather-bound Classics)
by Richard Burton Kenneth C. MondscheinThey are ancient stories, but they still enchant our imaginations today: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves--Sinbad the Sailor--Aladdin. These and the other Middle Eastern stories collected in Arabian Nights are delightful, fascinating, and fun for fans and first-time readers alike.
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
by Sir Richard Francis Burton A. S. ByattProbably this is one of the original "story within a story" book. "Arabian Nights" is a selection of stories told by a young girl on her wedding night to a price who has sworn he will kill any girl who marries him. Her clever stories keep him from murdering her night after night. This is where classic fairy tales such as "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" come from as well as moral tales and metaphors. The use of djins, magic and Eastern splendor makes "Arabian Nights" dazzle. It is a must read and a perfect counter point to western fairy tales such as "Hans Christian Anderson" and the "Brothers Grimm".
The Arabian Nights: Tales of Wonder and Magnificence
by Padraic ColumGenies, wishes, thieves, and treasure abound in these classic stories of magic and adventure from master storyteller Padraic Colum. <P><P>Every night for a thousand and one nights, Shahrazad begins to tell her husband the king a new tale but each night she stops before finishing. Why? Because the king has promised to kill her when the last one is over. However, her nightly stories—of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, and many other heroes and villains—are so enthralling that King Shahryar has to postpone her execution again and again... <P><P> Padraic Colum brings together a selection of the most amazing of the over 600 stories which Shahrazad told. Full of genies, flying carpets, and daring adventures, The Arabian Nights will captive a new audience and leave readers asking for one more story.
Arabian Nights
by Heather GrahamAn Egyptologist teams up with an arrogant but gorgeous reporter to find her missing father in this romance from the New York Times–bestselling author. Days before starting a history-making excavation in a remote sector of the Valley of the Kings, Dr. Alexandria Randall&’s father, a fellow Egyptologist, goes missing. Alex will stop at nothing to find her father—a gargantuan task in an ancient land where she doesn&’t make the rules—even if she&’s also a target. Alex must swallow her pride and ask for protection from an arrogant journalist named Dan. To find her father, Alex must play Dan&’s wife—a ruse that both find insufferable. But with her father&’s life hanging in the balance, Alex is determined to make their mock marriage work. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Heather Graham including rare photos from the author&’s personal collection.
The Arabian Nights (Norton Critical Edition)
by Husain Haddawy Daniel Heller-Roazen Muhsin MahdiThis Norton Critical Edition includes twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript. <p><p> Few works of literature are as familiar and beloved as The Arabian Nights. Yet few remain also as unknown. In English, The Arabian Nights is a literary work of relatively recent date―the first versions of the tales appeared in English barely two hundred years ago. The tales are accompanied by a preface, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations. <p><p> “Contexts” presents three of the oldest witnesses to The Arabian Nights in the Arabic tradition, together in English for the first time: an anonymous ninth-century fragment, Al Mas‘udi’s Muruj al-Dhahab, and Ibn al-Nadim’s The Fihrist. Also included are three related works by the nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, and Taha Husayn. <p><p> “Criticism” collects eleven wide-ranging essays on The Arabian Nights’ central themes by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Josef Horovitz, Jorge Luis Borges, Francesco Gabrieli, Mia Irene Gerhardt, Tzvetan Todorov, Andras Hamori, Heinz Grotzfield, Jerome W. Clinton, Abdelfattah Kilito, and David Pinault. <p><p> A Chronology of The Arabian Nights and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
The Arabian Nights: Sinbad And Other Popular Stories (Norton Critical Edition Ser.)
by Husain Haddawy Muhsin MahdiNow as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed--a new deluxe trade paperback edition of the beloved stories. The stories of ?The Arabian Nights ?(and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories) are famously told by the Princess Shahrazad, under the threat of death should the king lose interest in her tale. Collected over the centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from adventure fantasies, vivacious erotica, and animal fables, to pointed Sufi tales, these stories provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory. No one knows exactly when a given story originated, and many circulated orally for centuries before being written down; but in the process of telling and retelling, they were modified to reflect the general life and customs of the Arab society that adapted them--a distinctive synthesis that marks the cultural and artistic history of Islam. This translation is of the complete text of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and considered to be the most authentic.
The Arabian Nights
by Andrew LangFull of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever.
The Arabian Nights: Volume 2 (The Arabian Nights #2)
by Malcolm C. Lyons Ursula Lyons Robert IrwinEvery night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
The Arabian Nights: Volume 3 (The Arabian Nights #3)
by Malcolm C. Lyons Ursula Lyons Robert IrwinEvery night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
The Arabian Nights: Volume 1 (The Arabian Nights #1)
by Malcolm C. Lyons, Ursula Lyons, Robert Irwin Malcolm C. Lyons Ursula Lyons Robert IrwinEvery night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king stories of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.
The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales (Scribner Classics)
by Kate Wiggin Nora SmithRediscover the legends of Ali Baba, Aladdin, Sinbad, and more in this Scribner Illustrated Classic keepsake complemented by the stunning art of Maxfield Parrish. This stunning volume of twelve stories adapted from Tales of a Thousand and One Nights features Maxfield Parrish&’s gorgeous art, bringing a beloved classic to a whole new generation of readers.
Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights
by Jack Zipes Sir Richard Francis BurtonAfter King Shahryar had his wife killed for cheating, he began to corrupt--then kill--one virgin a night, as revenge on womankind. Then he meets Scheherazade, who, night after night, saves her own life by telling him fantastical tales of genies, wishes, terror, and passion. Famous stories from here are Aladdin and His Magic Lamp, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and others. Frequent telling of sexual activities through analogy. There is a glossary at the end, which would be helpful to read before beginning. The original (supposedly) 30 volumes were later whittled down to 10 volumes, and now to one volume of the major stories and other of lesser stories.
Arabian Nights and Days: A Novel
by Denys Johnson-Davies Naguib MahfouzA renowned Nobel Prize-winning novelist refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters.
Arabian Nights and Days
by Naguib MahfouzA renowned Nobel Prize-winning novelist refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters.
The Arabian Nights Cookbook
by Habeeb Salloum2011 Best Arab Cuisine book in the U.S., Gourmand World Cookbook AwardPrepare delicious and healthy meals with this award-winning Arabian cookbook For untold centuries, the Bedouin of the Arabian Peninsula, in their desert tents, have served their honored guests lavish meals featuring roasted lamb with rice. Bedouin hospitality has not changed over the ages but Arabian cuisine has undergone a remarkable evolution in the last 100 years, making it extremely diverse. This diversity is due, in part, to the explosion of wealth on the Arabian peninsula which has drawn people-along with their foods and cooking methods-from around the world.The blending of these culinary worlds has produced something remarkable. In The Arabian Nights Cookbook, author Habeeb Salloum has compiled an amazing array of recipes that celebrate this blending of cultures while still making it compatible with the everyday kitchens of the Western world. From the familiar, Hummus Bi-Tahini, to the unique, Stuffed Lamb, Salloum offers an accessible world of savory tastes and memory provoking aromas.Authentic Arabian recipes include: Classic Hummus Chickpea Puree Spicy Eggplant Salad Hearty Meat and Bulghur Soup Tandoori Chicken, Omani-Style Golden Meat Turnovers Fish Fillets in an Aromatic Red Sauce Spicy Falafel Patties Delicious Stuffed Zucchini