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Category : Antigua
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
American Slavery as it is
Author: Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds
Author: Hyunhee ParkPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107018684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This book documents the relationship and wisdom of Asian cartographers in the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the Europeans arrived.
Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam
Author: Robert G. HoylandPublisher: eBooks2go, Inc.
ISBN: 1618131311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
This book offers a new approach to the vexing question of how to write the early history of Islam. The first part discusses the nature of the Muslim and non-Muslim source material for the seventh- and eighth-century Middle East and argues that by lessening the divide between these two traditions, which has largely been erected by modern scholarship, we can come to a better appreciation of this crucial period. The second part gives a detailed survey of sources and an analysis of some 120 non-Muslim texts, all of which provide information about the first century and a half of Islam (roughly A.D. 620-780). The third part furnishes examples, according to the approach suggested in the first part and with the material presented in the second part, how one might write the history of this time. The fourth part takes the form of excurses on various topics, such as the process of Islamization, the phenomenon of conversion to Islam, the development of techniques for determining the direction of prayer, and the conquest of Egypt. Because this work views Islamic history with the aid of non-Muslim texts and assesses the latter in the light of Muslim writings, it will be essential reading for historians of Islam, Christianity, Judaism, or Zoroastrianism--indeed, for all those with an interest in cultures of the eastern Mediterranean in its traditional phase from Late Antiquity to medieval times.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Author: The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam
Author: Sir Richard Francis BurtonPublisher:
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Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Autobiography of Joseph Le Conte
Author: Joseph LeContePublisher:
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Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Joseph Le Conte (February 26, 1823 - July 6, 1901) was born in Liberty County, Georgia. He received an M.D. degree from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1845. After four years of practicing medicine, he entered Harvard University and studied natural history under Louis Agassiz. After graduating from Harvard, he taught at Oglethorpe University, Franklin College and South Carolina College. In 1869, Le Conte moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he remained the rest of his life, teaching mainly in geology. In 1870 he visited Yosemite Valley and became friends with John Muir. Concerned about resource exploitation, Le Conte and Muir with others founded the Sierra Club in 1892. Le Conte died while visiting Yosemite Valley. Le Conte and his wife Caroline Nisbet, had four children.
Thalaba the Destroyer
Author: Robert SoutheyGlimpses of Fifty Years
Author: Frances Elizabeth WillardPublisher: Chicago : Women's Temperance Publication Association
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Category : Social reformers
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Willard's autobiography is not only the story of an outstanding woman of the 19th century, it is the personal history of the W.C.T.U., the largest of the 19th century women's organizations.
Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Author: William Holman HuntPublisher:
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Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Author: Isaac Disraeli