Author: Victoria Sackville-WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bakhtiari (Iran)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Twelve Days
Author: Victoria Sackville-WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bakhtiari (Iran)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Twelve Days
Author: Vita Sackville-WestPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781502577023
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 - 2 June 1962), best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life, her passionate affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf, and Sissinghurst Castle Garden, which she and her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson, created at their estate. The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931) are perhaps her best known novels today. Sackville-West's science-fantasy Grand Canyon (1942) is a "cautionary tale" (as she termed it) about a Nazi invasion of an unprepared United States. The book takes an unsuspected twist, however, in that makes it something more than a typical invasion yarn.
Twelve Days in Persia
Author: V. Sackville-WestSufism in the Secret History of Persia
Author: Milad MilaniPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317544587
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Sufism formed one of the cultures of resistance which has existed in the social fabric of Persia since antiquity. Such resistance continues to manifest itself today with many looking to Sufism as a model of cooperation between East and West, between traditional and modern. 'Sufism in the Secret History of Persia' explores the place of Sufi mysticism in Iran's intellectual and spiritual consciousness through traditional and contemporary Sufi thinkers and writers. Sufism in the Secret History of Persia examines the current of spirituality which extends from the old Iranian worship of Mithra to modern Islam. This current always contains elements of gnosis and inner knowing, but has often provided impetus for socio-political resistance. The study describes how these persisting pre-Islamic cultural and socio-religious elements have secretly challenged Muslim orthodoxies and continue to shape the nature and orientation of contemporary Sufism.
Shahnameh
Author: Abolqasem FerdowsiPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101993235
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1041
Book Description
The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition A Penguin Classic Dick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shahnameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked explanations to ease along modern readers. Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the Shahnameh is among the greatest works of world literature. This prodigious narrative tells the story of pre-Islamic Persia, from the mythical creation of the world and the dawn of Persian civilization through the seventh-century Arab conquest. The stories of the Shahnameh are deeply embedded in Persian culture and beyond, as attested by their appearance in such works as The Kite Runner and the love poems of Rumi and Hafez. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Persia and the Persian Question
Author: Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of KedlestonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eastern question (Central Asia).
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The Foreign Missionary of the Presbyterian Church
Author: Don Juan of Persia
Author: G. Le StrangePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134284594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Don Juan was a Persian Moslem who became a Spanish Roman Catholic. His description of Persia and his account of the wars waged by the Persians during the sixteenth century considerably add to modern day knowledge of the history of the period.
Explorers Journal
Author: Ernest IngersollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
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