Author: Mohammed Mahfoodh Al Ardhi
Publisher: Berkshire Academic PressLtd
ISBN: 9781907784026
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 187
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Pearls from Arabia is a collection of beautiful words spoken by the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) around 15 centuries ago. The reflective and inspirational words will direct the reader to the simple, peaceful, and honorable aspects of life, which all humans need, but which are all too often buried by the multiple layers and pressures of contemporary living. Each page contains a single aphorism.
Author: Jurji Zaydan
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 081560999X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Shajar al-Durr, known as Tree of Pearls, was one of the most famous Arab queens and the only woman in the medieval Arab world to rule in her own name. Her narrative is one element of a much larger story of the unsettled political climate of thirteenth-century Egypt. In this eponymous novel, Zaydan charts the fall of the Ayyubid Dynasty and the rise of the Mamluke Dynasty through the adventures of Tree of Pearls and Rukn al- Din Baybars, a young Mamluke commander who eventually triumphs as the ruler of Egypt. War, political intrigue, murder, and a female ruler who was born a slave combine for an irresistible story, while Zaydan’s keen observations on royal politics and subverted gender roles offer readers a richly detailed glimpse of the cultural milieu of the time. Tree of Pearls, originally published in 1914, is the last in a famous series of historical novels written by Zaydan, an accomplished historian whose books continue to be read widely in the Arab world today. Selim’s fluid translation introduces an English audience to one of the Arab world’s influential writers.
Author: Frances Gillespie
Publisher: Medina Publishing
ISBN: 9781909339293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In this new title, Frances Gillespie tells the fascinating story of pearl fishing in the Arabian Gulf.
Author: Emma Wildes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1682992527
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
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The friend of a foreign prince, Lord Grayson is gifted with a beautiful bedmate for his stay at the exotic palace. He is uncertain how to handle the situation, but he certainly wants to help her and not offend his royal hosts, because if he seems displeased with her then it would not go well for the lovely Lady Celia. Raised in a privileged life of a sprawling mansion, servants, and adulation, Celia Davenport can’t believe she’s been abducted, and is being forced into sexual servitude. Luckily, Robert St. Claire is her salvation in the form of a virile lover who takes her virginity, but also steals her heart, as he negotiates her release and takes her home.
Author: Najla Jraissaty Khoury
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 0914671898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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A collection of 30 traditional Syrian and Lebanese folktales infused with new life by Lebanese women, collected by Najla Khoury. While civil war raged in Lebanon, Najla Khoury traveled with a theater troupe, putting on shows in marginal areas where electricity was a luxury, in air raid shelters, Palestinian refugee camps, and isolated villages. Their plays were largely based on oral tales, and she combed the country in search of stories. Many years later, she chose one hundred stories from among the most popular and published them in Arabic in 2014, exactly as she received them, from the mouths of the storytellers who told them as they had heard them when they were children from their parents and grandparents. Out of the hundred stories published in Arabic, Inea Bushnaq and Najla Khoury chose thirty for this book.
Author: Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Author: Spink & Son
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 73
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Author: David Heard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783959941761
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book is about the experiences of the pioneers who visited the Trucial Coast on behalf of the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) subsidiary. These men were the first foreigners to carry out surveys in the barren mountains of the north of the Trucial States and the sand dune desert of Abu Dhabi. This book and all subsequent volumes are based on the oil company files which contain the reports and correspondence of these pioneers. From Pearls to Oil briefly introduces the reader to the early history of the oil industry in the Middle East. In those days, the 1930s, the industry was dominated by the Anglo Iranian Oil Company, operating only in Iran, and the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), operating in much of Arabia with the exception of Bahrain, Kuwait and much of Saudi Arabia. With rare photographs and maps alongside the author's in-depth narrative, this book is essential reading for scholars, residents and visitors interested in the history of the United Arab Emirates.
Author: George Frederick Kunz
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486422763
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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This monumental, profusely illustrated volume by two noted authorities is probably the largest single collection of data on the subject of pearls. Its enormous amount of detailed information covers their origin and history, structure, and form; the pearl fisheries of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas; fascinating facts and lore on pearl-culture and pearl-farming; the gem's mystical and medicinal properties; famous pearl collections around the world; and much more. Over 180 illustrations enhance the highly readable text, sure to intrigue any lover of gems.
Author: Robert A. Carter
Publisher: Arabian Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9780957106000
Category : Pearl industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Since Antiquity the natural pearls of the Gulf have been famed as the finest, most lustrous and most plentiful that the world can offer. From the beginnings of trade until the 1930s, these pearls were a major product of the Gulf's coastal peoples. Latterly, from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, rising international demand turned pearling into their economic mainstay. By this time pearls were fished in their millions, and pearling became the pillar of the regional economy, dominating the lives, health and expectations of entire shaikhdoms. The influx of people and wealth to the coast permanently transformed the Gulf, providing the manpower and capital to germinate and nurture the city-states - notably Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah - which endure there today. Despite its formative role, there has until now been no book taking the entire history of pearling as its subject. Dr Carter's ground-breaking work traces its evolution on both the Arabian and the Persian sides of the Gulf, and explores the role it played in shaping the political, social and urban configuration that we see in the region today. It shows the extent to which the Gulf economy became dependent on a single commodity, and how, in that respect, pearling resembled the oil industry that would replace it. Lavishly illustrated, this book covers in unprecedented detail the history, development, conduct, florescence and catastrophic collapse of the industry in the early 20th century. It will fascinate not only those wishing to understand the growth and conduct of the pearl fishery, but also those interested in the history of the region and the origins of the Gulf states, and in the colourful story of the global taste for one of mankind's most highly prized precious stones.
