Muslims, Muslims--Biography--Early works to 1800, DS38.4.A2 I265 1842
translated from the Arabic by Mac Guckin de Slane. Main Heritage Shelves General DS38.4.A2 I265 1842 Book vol.2 Item-ID: i22892084 BIB-ID: 1835954 Show moretranslated from the Arabic by Mac Guckin de Slane. Main Heritage Shelves General DS38.4.A2 I265 1842 Book vol.2 Item-ID: i22892084 BIB-ID: 1835954 Show less
Muslims, Muslims--Biography--Early works to 1800, DS38.4.A2 I265 1842
translated from the Arabic by Mac Guckin de Slane. Main Heritage Shelves General DS38.4.A2 I265 1842 Book vol.1 Item-ID: i22892060 BIB-ID: 1835954 Show moretranslated from the Arabic by Mac Guckin de Slane. Main Heritage Shelves General DS38.4.A2 I265 1842 Book vol.1 Item-ID: i22892060 BIB-ID: 1835954 Show less
Muslims, Muslims--Biography--Early works to 1800, DS38.4.A2 I265 1842
translated from the Arabic by Mac Guckin de Slane. Main Heritage Shelves General DS38.4.A2 I265 1842 Book vol.4 Item-ID: i22892102 BIB-ID: 1835954 Show moretranslated from the Arabic by Mac Guckin de Slane. Main Heritage Shelves General DS38.4.A2 I265 1842 Book vol.4 Item-ID: i22892102 BIB-ID: 1835954 Show less
Introduction. Résumé of central Asian exploration -- The plan and objects of my journey -- Across Russia to Orenburg -- Across the Kirghiz Steppes... Show moreIntroduction. Résumé of central Asian exploration -- The plan and objects of my journey -- Across Russia to Orenburg -- Across the Kirghiz Steppes -- From Lake Aral to Tashkend -- From Tashkend to Margelan -- The Syr-Daria -- A winter journey over the Pamirs. Up the Isafaïran Valley -- Over the Tenghiz-Bai Pass -- Up the Alaï Valley -- Over the Trans-Alaï -- Lake Kara-Kul -- Population of the Russian Pamirs -- Geographical summary -- Fort Pamir -- The Mus-Tagh-Ata and its glaciers. From the Murghab to Bulun-Kul -- Mus-Tagh-Ata -- An attempt to climb Mus-Tagh-Ata -- Reminiscences of a Kashgar -- A Chinese dinner-party -- From Kashgar to Ighiz-Yar -- Through the Gorge of Tenghi-Tar -- The plain of Tagharma -- Among the Kirghiz -- Little Kara-Kul Lake -- Little Kara-Kul Lake (continued) -- Amongst the glaciers of Mus-Tagh-Ata -- My second attempt to ascend Mus-Tagh-Ata -- My third attempt to ascend Mus-Tagh-Ata -- Moonlight on Mus-Tagh-Ata -- To Fort Pamir and back -- Boating adventures on the Little Kara-Kul -- Life among the Kirghiz -- Return to Kashgar -- Across the Takla-Makan Desert. To Maral-Bashi -- An excursion to the Masar-Tagh -- The Shrine of Ordan Padshah -- On th threshold of the desert -- The start from Merket -- Skirting the desert -- An earthly paradise -- In the ban of the desert -- The camels break down -- No water left -- The camp of death -- The crisis comes -- A desperate march -- Human beings at last -- With the shepherds of the Khotan-Daria -- A rescue party -- Down the Kotan-Daria -- From Ak-Su to Kashgar. A summer trip to the southern Pamirs. Over the Ullug-Art Pass -- With the Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission -- Festivities on the Roof of the World -- Over the mountains to the Yarkand-Daria and to Kashgar -- Across the Desert of Gobi to Lop-Nor. From Kashgar to Kargalik -- Alongside the desert to Khotan -- City and oasis of Khotan -- Borasan and its archæological remains -- History of Khotan -- The buried city of Takla-Makan -- A curious shepherd race -- Down the Keriay-Daria -- Where the wild camel lives -- Where is the Tarim? -- Through the forests of the Tarim -- At Korla and Kara-Shahr -- The Lop-Nor problem -- A boat excursion on the northern Lop-Nor -- Along Przhevalsky's Lob-Nor by boat -- The return to Khotan -- The sequel of my desert journey -- Through northern Tibet and Tsaidam. Over the Kwen-Lun Passes -- My caravan : its several members -- We enter uninhabited regions -- Amongst the spurs of the Arka-Tagh -- Searching for a pass -- The deceitful Taghliks -- Over the Arka-Tagh at last -- The wild ass -- Hunting the wild yak -- Lakes without end -- Tibetan storms -- Discoveries of inscribed stones -- Inhabited regions again -- Among the Mongols of Tsaidam -- Through the Desert of Tsaidam -- Among the Mongolian lakes -- An encounter with Tangut robbers -- From Tsaidam to Peking. Through the country of the Tanguts -- Koko-Nor -- From Koko-Nor to Ten-Kar -- The temple of ten thousand images -- Si-ning-Fu and the Dungan Revolt -- From Sin-Ning-Fu to Liang-Chow-Fu -- Through the Desert of Ala-Shan -- Wang-Yeh-Fu and Ning-Sha -- To Peking and home. by Sven Hedin ; with nearly three hundred illustrations from sketches and photographs by the author. Translated from the Swedish by J.T. Bealby. Includes index. Main Heritage Shelves General DS8 .H44 1898 Book vol. 1 Item-ID: i2343739x BIB-ID: 1024695 Show less
Mukht塲 min kal塭 al-赫am塮 al-arbaᨠal-ak塢ir, Maxims, Arabic, Islamic civilization--Greek influences, Literatura folkl⯲ica ⡲abe--Traducciones del griego, Gnome, 蕢ersetzung, Arabisch, Gnome, Griechisch, 蕢ersetzung, PN6307.A7 G8 1975, 170/.202
by Dimitri Gutas. Includes the Arabic text and English translation of Mukht塲 min kal塭 al-赫am塮 al-arbaᨠal-ak塢ir (p. 56-213) on facing pages. A Revisio... Show moreby Dimitri Gutas. Includes the Arabic text and English translation of Mukht塲 min kal塭 al-赫am塮 al-arbaᨠal-ak塢ir (p. 56-213) on facing pages. A Revision of the author's thesis, Yale University. Main Heritage Compact General PN6307.A7 G8 1975 Reference Item-ID: i23819480 BIB-ID: 2534909 Includes bibliographical references (pages 470-481) and index. Show less
Women--Social conditions, Women--Algeria--Social conditions--Fiction, Muslim women, Muslim women--Fiction, PQ3989.2.D57 V3713 1999, 843
A novel on the plight of women in the Muslim world. The heroine is a musicologist in Algeria whose husband attempts to blind her for having an... Show moreA novel on the plight of women in the Muslim world. The heroine is a musicologist in Algeria whose husband attempts to blind her for having an affair with a student. The author, who lives in exile, is an Algerian writing under a pseudonym and plays the contradictions of her heroine's existence against the bloody carnage of Carthage, a great civilization to which the Berbers were once compared. The Silence of Writing -- What is Erased in the Heart -- The Siesta -- The Face -- Space, Darkness -- The Dance -- The Absence -- Before, After -- The Goodbye -- Erased in Stone -- The Slave in Tunis -- The Renegade Count -- The Archeologist Lord -- Destruction -- The Secret -- The Stele and the Flames -- The Deported Writer -- Abalessa -- A Silent Desire -- "Fugitive Without Knowing it" -- Arable Woman I -- Of the Mother as Traveler -- Arable Woman II -- Of the Grandmother as a Young Bride -- Arable Woman III -- Of the Mother as Little Girl -- Arable Woman IV -- Of the Narrator in the French Night -- Arable Woman v -- Of the Narrator as an Adolescent -- Arable Woman VI -- Of Desire and its Desert -- Arable Woman VII -- Shadows of Separation -- The Blood of Writing -- Yasmina -- The Blood of Writing--Final. Assia Djebar ; translated by Betsy Wing. Main Heritage Compact General PQ3989.2.D57 V3713 1999 Reference Item-ID: i16875862 BIB-ID: 1578884 Translated from the French. Show less
Tales, Tales--Arab countries, Fairy tales, Tales, Tales, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, PZ8.A85 A54 1992, 398.20953, 398.4
rendered into English by Brian Alderson ; and embellished by Michael Foreman. Main Heritage Compact General PZ8.A85 A54 1992 Reference Item-ID: i10188873 ... Show morerendered into English by Brian Alderson ; and embellished by Michael Foreman. Main Heritage Compact General PZ8.A85 A54 1992 Reference Item-ID: i10188873 BIB-ID: 1020523 Show less
translated and annotated by Richard F. Burton ; selected from the Book of a Thousand nights and a night. "Selected by Anthony Atha from the... Show moretranslated and annotated by Richard F. Burton ; selected from the Book of a Thousand nights and a night. "Selected by Anthony Atha from the Illustrated Benares Edition issued by the Burton Club for private circulation among its members"--Title page Main Heritage Compact General PJ7716.A1 B87 1985 Reference Item-ID: i10184478 BIB-ID: 1020083 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, DS48 .A45 1816
Main Heritage Shelves General DS48 .A45 1816 Book vol.1 Item-ID: i10233842 BIB-ID: 1025020 Show moreMain Heritage Shelves General DS48 .A45 1816 Book vol.1 Item-ID: i10233842 BIB-ID: 1025020 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, DS48 .A45 1816
Main Heritage Shelves General DS48 .A45 1816 Book vol.2 Item-ID: i20306106 BIB-ID: 1025020 Show moreMain Heritage Shelves General DS48 .A45 1816 Book vol.2 Item-ID: i20306106 BIB-ID: 1025020 Show less
