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Othman al-Sheikh is running away from the shadows of his past life in a small dusty village in the Libyan Desert. Tripoli, meanwhile, is a city in the process of transformation, moulded to the will of its Italian colonisers. Its decadent entertain...

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The Confines of the Shadow is a sequence of novels and short stories that map the transformation of the Libyan city of Benghazi from a sleepy Ottoman backwater in the 1910s to the second capital of an oil-rich kingdom in the 1960s. Alessandro Spin...

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Set in the inter-war period, between the late 1920s, when Italy began solidifying its power in its new Libyan colony, and the end of World War II, when control of the country passed into British hands. Spina's chief subjects in these stories are I...

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The Little House is set in the early years of the Showa era (1926-89), when Japan's situation is becoming increasingly tense but has not yet fully immersed in a wartime footing. On the outskirts of Tokyo, near a station on a private train line, st...

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Ibn Battuta, the greatest of all the medieval travellers, was in Tangier in 1304. At the age of nineteen he set out on his travels that were eventually to take him over 75,000 miles through all of the Muslim world. His book, in which he describes ...

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This book, first published in 1897, is based upon the results of archaeological explorations carried out by the author during two visits to Tripoli, in 1895 and 1896. Very little had been written about the Roman and pre-Roman sites of this region ...

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A collection of varied verse in which are enumerated the 'ninety-nine beautiful names of Allah' and appended to each, some illustrated legend, tradition, record or comment drawn from diverse oriental sources.

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'Nothing can be more curious than the appearance of the caravans when they set out, as they are by that time composed of crowds from all nations, as different in their dress as in their complexions. They carry with them besides gold dust, Venetian...

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This course provides a general outline of colloquial Arabic sentences and phrases, all in idiom currently used by Arabs. It is equally suitable for those working on their own and for those studying in evening institutes and colleges.

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A splendid narrative of the author's encounters with the Moslem community in Tripoli and its hinterland during his medical mission in 1912, set up to aid the Moslem casualties of the Italian occupation of 1911.

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The Caliphate by William Muir provides a comprehensive history of those 'successors of the apostle of God', the leaders of the Islamic community founded by the Prophet Muhammad at Medina.These were the Caliphs, rulers of the great Islamic Empire f...

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In 'The Oriental Caravan we are transported along the Golden Road to Samarkand, and far beyond, to discover the finest poetry and prose-extracts of Eastern and Middle-Eastern philosophical, metaphysical and religious writing. Included are selected...

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The 'pilgrimage' alluded to in the title of this work describes a five-month journey undertaken by an Englishwoman, in 1878, to the great central desert region of Arabia. That a woman should venture on such a perilous journey at all was unusual en...

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First published in 1854, and here reproduced in fine facsimile, John Reynell Morell's guide to French North Africa now serves as a unique historical source work.Originally intended as a practical guide to the region, this was the book no self-resp...

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Stanley Lane-Pool - grand-nephew of the Arabic scholar, Edward Lane - was a professor of Arabic at Trinity College, Dublin from 1898 to 1904. His books included several works on Oriental history. The Barbary Corsairs recounts how the expatriation ...

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Mohammed (570-632), the founder of Islam, was born at Mecca - now the spiritual centre of that religion. Orphaned, and with a humble childhood, he showed few signs of the inspiration that would lead him to be so great a Prophet. Indeed, it was not...

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This book is a facsimile of Arabistan, first published in 1875. The title of the work was chosen by its author to delineate the region through which he travelled in 1874, now known as the countries of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq. It is, how...

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Some came in search of places of Classical interest, others joined scientific expeditions. A few were attracted merely by the desert's mystery and romance. James Hamilton was such a traveller. Though the slave trade still flourished, and dangers f...

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Arthur Leared (1822-1879), educated at Trinity College, Dublin, spent much of his life in travel. He journeyed extensively in India, the Middle East and America. He thrice visited Morocco in the years between 1872 and 1879, from which travels he p...

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Though the tale he relates typifies the Englishman abroad, Edward Rae, the author of this work, allows no such reserve to stand between himself and his acute observations. Amusing and urbane, Rae illuminates the places he visits and the characters...

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The African Society was formed in 1788 'for the purpose of exploring the interior of Africa'. Among the explorers they sponsored was the great Mungo Park, who followed the course of the Niger. Another was the young German, Frederick Horneman, 'rob...

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In 1856 Dr Nathan Davis, whose other works include A Voice from North Africa (1844), began his excavation of the site of Carthage, fabled North African city of Dido, 'fugitive princess of Tyre'. During the course of the excavations, which extended...

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'Saracen' was a name employed by medieval writers to describe the Muslims of Syria and Palestine, and the Arab rulers of North Africa generally - especially those conquerors of Spain and Sicily, and the invaders of France. Later the name was appli...

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Ibn Batuta (1304-1377) was the greatest of the Arabian travellers of the Middle Ages. Born in Algiers, he spent the years 1325-54 in overland traverse throughout Europe, Asia and much of Africa. He visited Mecca, Persia, Mesopotamia, Arabia, North...

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The author of 'A Journey Through Yemen' ends his narrative thus: 'My recollections of the country are ones that I shall always treasure, in spite of the dangers and sickness, in spite of long marches and days in prison, the Yemen will always be fo...

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' 'No husband!', echoed the Mufti. 'And did you cross the seas from England without a husband to take care of you?' 'Even so."In the autumn of 1859 the anonymous author of 'Through Algeria' joins the ranks of the Victorian spinsters of indepe...

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Shaikh Muslihu-D-Din Sa'adi Shirazi (c. 1184-1291) is one of the greatest poets of the Classic Age in Persian literature. His Bustan (The Fruit Garden), and Gulistan (The Rose Garden) are among the most famous books in the language. Sa'di was born...

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Stanley Lane-Poole (1854-1931), archaeologist and historian, was for many years keeper of the coin collection at the British Museum, compiling a fourteen-volume catalogue of Oriental and Indian coins. In 1883 he conducted an archaeological expedit...

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Originally published in 1844, also in two volumes, 'The Historical Geography of Arabia' is now an important document in the historical development of Christian theological study. With the rapid expansion of European interest in the Middle East dur...

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Originally published in 1844, also in two volumes, The Historical Geography of Arabia is now an important document in the historical development of Christian theological study. With the rapid expansion of European interests in the Middle East duri...

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