Translated by J.C. from original Persian mss. in the collection of Sir William Ouseley, the editor. Contains the author's Taḥqīq al-iʻrāb and Taqvīm... Show moreTranslated by J.C. from original Persian mss. in the collection of Sir William Ouseley, the editor. Contains the author's Taḥqīq al-iʻrāb and Taqvīm al-buldān (the latter with Persian text) from his miscellany Shāhīd-i Ṣādiq. Main Heritage Shelves General DS43 .S2213 1832 Book Item-ID: i15863165 BIB-ID: 2518594 With, as issued, Maʼās̲irnāmah dar ḥaqīqat-i kutub-i tavārīkh. English. A critical essay on various manuscript works, Arabic and Persian, illustrating the history of Arabia, Persia, Turcomania, India, Syria, Egypt, Mauritania, and Spain. London, 1832. The two publications together form v. 20 of the series. 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.3 Item-ID: i22892096 BIB-ID: 1835954 Show moretranslated from the Arabic by Mac Guckin de Slane. Main Heritage Shelves General DS38.4.A2 I265 1842 Book vol.3 Item-ID: i22892096 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.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
Bedouins, Bedouins--Arabian Peninsula, Arabian horse, Description and travel, DS207 .R37 1935
Carl R. Raswan ; with illustrations by the author. Includes index. Main Heritage Shelves General DS207 .R37 1935 Book Item-ID: i10191574 BIB-ID: 1020793 Show moreCarl R. Raswan ; with illustrations by the author. Includes index. Main Heritage Shelves General DS207 .R37 1935 Book Item-ID: i10191574 BIB-ID: 1020793 Show less
TravelChardin, John , 1643-1713, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS257 .C43 1720
Adorn'd and illustrated with a great number of cutts. By Edm. Lloyd, Esq. "In eight volumes" - note on principal title-page. Only two volumes... Show moreAdorn'd and illustrated with a great number of cutts. By Edm. Lloyd, Esq. "In eight volumes" - note on principal title-page. Only two volumes published. Later states have "two" substituted for "eight" and "Vol. I" deleted. Principal title-page printed in red and black. Main Heritage Shelves General DS257 .C43 1720 Book vol.2 Item-ID: i10233465 BIB-ID: 1024982 Translation by Lloyd of part of vols. 3 and 4 of Chardin's Voyages en Perse (Amsterdam, 1711 edition). Show less
TravelChardin, John , 1643-1713, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS257 .C43 1720
Adorn'd and illustrated with a great number of cutts. By Edm. Lloyd, Esq. "In eight volumes" - note on principal title-page. Only two volumes... Show moreAdorn'd and illustrated with a great number of cutts. By Edm. Lloyd, Esq. "In eight volumes" - note on principal title-page. Only two volumes published. Later states have "two" substituted for "eight" and "Vol. I" deleted. Principal title-page printed in red and black. Main Heritage Shelves General DS257 .C43 1720 Book vol.1 Item-ID: i20243686 BIB-ID: 1024982 Translation by Lloyd of part of vols. 3 and 4 of Chardin's Voyages en Perse (Amsterdam, 1711 edition). Show less
History, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS272 .J83 1926, 914/.04/232
translated and edited, with an introd. by Guy Le Strange. Translation of Relaciones de don Juan de Persia. Main Heritage Shelves General DS272 .J83 1926 ... Show moretranslated and edited, with an introd. by Guy Le Strange. Translation of Relaciones de don Juan de Persia. Main Heritage Shelves General DS272 .J83 1926 Book Item-ID: i10082621 BIB-ID: 1009898 Includes bibliographical references and index. Show less
translated from the original Persian manuscript presented ... to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... ; to which is prefixed, A succinct account of the... Show moretranslated from the original Persian manuscript presented ... to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... ; to which is prefixed, A succinct account of the history of Persia, previous to that period ; illustrated with plates and a map of Western Persia. Main Heritage Shelves General DS298 .M34 1833 Book Item-ID: i2144450x BIB-ID: 1883035 Autograph dedication from author on the half title page: "To Mss Knight. Downton Castle // with Sir Harford Jones Brydges // Kindest Regards" and in a second hand-written "left by her to C.C. House Boughton // 1841" Show less
I. A description of Asia, according to the oriental geographers -- II. A short history of Persia ... and an appendix consisting of an essay on... Show moreI. A description of Asia, according to the oriental geographers -- II. A short history of Persia ... and an appendix consisting of an essay on Asiatick poetry and the history of the Persian language. extracted from an Eastern manuscript, which was translated into French by William Jones. Previously translated by the same author into French: Histoire de Nader Shah. London, 1770. History of Nadir Shah written ca. 1757 by Muḥammad Mahdī Khān Astarābādī. Main Heritage Shelves General DS294 .M34 1773 Book Item-ID: i22878269 BIB-ID: 1835955 Show less
by Henry de Monfreid; translated by Helen Buchanan Bell. Main Heritage Shelves General DT39 .M64 1934 Book Item-ID: i10175325 BIB-ID: 1019168 Show moreby Henry de Monfreid; translated by Helen Buchanan Bell. Main Heritage Shelves General DT39 .M64 1934 Book Item-ID: i10175325 BIB-ID: 1019168 Show less
with E.W. Lane, by his sister [Sophia Poole]. CB Library Cavendish Bentinck Library. Main Heritage Shelves General DT53 .P82 1846 Book Item-ID: i10198970 ... Show morewith E.W. Lane, by his sister [Sophia Poole]. CB Library Cavendish Bentinck Library. Main Heritage Shelves General DT53 .P82 1846 Book Item-ID: i10198970 BIB-ID: 1021533 Show less
