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Cyril Glasse
The Concise Encyclopaedia of Islam
London: Stacey International 1989. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Light shelf wear. Stacey International Paperback
Bookseller reference : 042114 ISBN : 0905743652 9780905743653
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CÜNEYT KAFKAS.
Filistin günlügü.
Fine English Paperback., Very good., 20 x 14 cm, 227, [6] p., "Filistin günlügü.", Cüneyt Kafkas, A Yayinlari, Ist., 1990.
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D'Anville, [Jean Baptiste Bourguignon] / Schrämbl, Franz Anton.
Karte von Asien. [Map of Asia]. Vienna, F. A. Schraembl (& J. G Trassler in Brno), 1786.
3 engraved maps of 2 sheets each (ca. 740 x 790 mm, 980 x 700 mm, 510 x 1070 mm) in contemporary light border colour, cut into segments and mounted on cloth. Engraved by Jacob Adam and A. Amon. Scale ca. 1:7.4 million. Folded in contemporary marbled slipcase with leather cover label. Complete set of Schraembl's Asia maps, based on D'Anville's maps with improvements by the Austrian cartographer F. A. Schraembl and also issued as part of his "Great General Atlas" (Vienna, P. J. Schalbacher, 1786-1803). The first map shows the Near and Middle East from Turkey and Egypt to Arabia, Persia, India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Although the southwestern part of the Gulf is poorly explored, various Gulf cities are identified, including "Dsjulfar" (Ras al-Khaimah), "Mekehoan" (Umm Al Quwain), "Kalba", and "Ras ol Lima". The city of "Al Katif" is clearly identified. The Qatar Peninsula is entirely absent, but the island of Bahrain is noted (though misaligned), and the coastline between "Gattar" (south of Bahrain) and Kalba is marked as a "little-known coast". - A well-preserved set. Phillipps I, 694. Kretschmer/Dörflinger, Lex. Kartogr. 566. Dörflinger/Hühnel I, 133, 11-16. Not in Al-Qasimi, Al-Ankary, Couto/Bacqué-Grammont/Taleghani, etc.
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D'Anville, [Jean Baptiste Bourguignon].
Persian Gulf. From the original by D'Anville. [London], John Harrison, 1788.
Engraved map, hand coloured in outline. 535 x 371 mm. An English version of D'Anville's famous nautical chart of the Gulf from 1776. Although Bahrain is depicted, the large peninsula of Qatar is notably absent, and the coast between Bahrain and Abu Dhabi is marked "This Coast is not known". Al-Qasimi (2nd ed.), p. 236.
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D'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon.
Premier Partie de la Carte d' Asie, contenant La Turquie, L'Arabie, La Perse, L'Inde en deça du Gange et de la Tartarie ce qui est limitrophe de la Pers et du Gange. Paris, 1751.
Engraved map on two sheets (75 x 79 cm), with hand-coloured cartouche and coloured in outline. “The first really modern map of Arabia” (Tibbetts). An extremely detailed two-sheet map showing the Middle East, Arabia and India. The map extends from Turkey and Arabia to India, Tibet and the Gobi Desert in the east. Alai, General maps E.126; Al-Qasimi 169; Tibbetts 281.
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D'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon.
Prémière partie de la carte d'Asie contenant la Turquie, l'Arabie, la Perse, l'Inde en deca du gange et de la Tartarie ce qui est limitrophe de la Perse et de l'Inde. Paris, chez l'auteur, 1751.
800 x 755 mm. 20 parts mounted on linen. A monumental and highly detailed 1751 map of India, Persia, and Arabia by the French cartographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. Centered on Persia, this map covers from Istanbul to eastern India and Tibet, and from the Black Sea to the Maldives. It offers excellent coverage of the central Asian portions of the Silk Road naming the centers of Samarkand, Bukhara, Lop Nor, and others. At the bottom center there is a large decorative title cartouche including stylized Christian, Muslim Zoroastrian, and Buddhist elements. - Some worming, slightly browned.
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D'ARCAIS, Francesco (a cura di)
Nel solco di Pietro e Paolo
193 p., ill.: 31 cm. Cartonato editoriale con sovracoperta e custodia. Molto buono. Il viaggio degli apostoli da Gerusalemme a Roma attraverso immagini di luoghi e miniature medievali
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D'ASARO, Franz Maria
Kurdistan nazione fantasma
1 Vol. In-8 gr pag. 238 alc. ill. f. t. Copt. ill PROG 36763 CATT_ATT 49
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DABASHI HAMID
The World Of Persian Literary Humanism
Harvard University Press Cambridge Massachusetts and London England: 2012. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. What does it mean to be human Humanism has mostly considered this question from a Western perspective. Through a detailed examination of a vast literary tradition Hamid Dabashi asks that question anew from a non-European point of view. The answers are fresh provocative and deeply transformative. This groundbreaking study of Persian humanism presents the unfolding of a tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization. Exploring how 1400 years of Persian literature have taken up the question of what it means to be human Dabashi proposes that the literary subconscious of a civilization may also be the undoing of its repressive measures. This could account for the masculinist hostility of the early Arab conquest that accused Persian culture of effeminate delicacy and sexual misconduct and later of scientific and philosophical inaccuracy. As the designated feminine subconscious of a decidedly masculinist civilization Persian literary humanism speaks from a hidden and defiant vantage point�and this is what inclines it toward creative subversion. Arising neither despite nor because of Islam Persian literary humanism was the artistic manifestation of a cosmopolitan urbanism that emerged in the aftermath of the seventh-century Muslim conquest. Removed from the language of scripture and scholasticism Persian literary humanism occupies a distinct universe of moral obligations in which "a judicious lie" as the thirteenth-century poet Sheykh Mosleh al-Din Sa'di writes "is better than a seditious truth." Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. "Dabashi provides a rich and varied account of classical Persian literature. Such commanding figures as Ferdowsi the 11th century poet of the 'Shahnameh' or Book of Kings one of the world's great epics stand alongside the mystical lyrical poets Hafiz and Rumi as well as the earthier Sa'di. It is one of Dabashi's accomplishments to demonstrate the unusual continuity of the Persian literary tradition which despite political upheavals and stylistic revolutions�free verse is the norm in contemporary Persian poetry�remains strong even in the teeth of brutal governmental repression."�Eric Ormsby The Wall Street Journal "In The World of Persian Literary Humanism Hamid Dabashi revealed with his usual brilliance yet more aspects of a sophisticated culture to an Anglophone readership."�Pankaj Mishra New Statesman "Dabashi's effortless capacious erudition is obvious all throughout. Even his offhand comments about Ferdowsi's Shahnameh or Muhammad Iqbal's Asrar-e Khodi and dozens of other canonical Persian works are uniformly brilliant."�Steve Donoghue Open Letters Monthly "This is a study of profound erudition deep historical and literary knowledge and professional acumen. Dabashi marshals an impressive amount of historical material blended into a wide historical narrative."�Arshin Adib-Moghaddam "In this fascinating study of the metaphysical concerns of Persian literature Dabashi presents Persian adab as a movement heretical to the ideological dispositions of Islamic empires. He traces the morality that informs the adab of the Persian language and shows how a sustained history of a millennium and a half created an amorphous literary subconscious that remained irreducible to any religious identity. A landmark work that shall nurture all future discourse on the subject."�Musharraf Ali Farooqi "Dabashi is one of the world's most well-versed and learned scholars of Persian history and culture and this book could only be written by someone of his intellectual stature who shows a mastery of Persian literature over a thousand years. His creative and engaging narrative carries the reader through a literary odyssey of great geographic breadth and skillful analysis."�Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet University of Pennsylvania "Elegant as well as passionate Hamid Dabashi's scholarly writings always have a revelatory quality. Yet again he uncovers in his new book an astonishing new world for English readers."�Pankaj Mishra "In this powerfully challenging book Hamid Dabashi not only pays tribute to the achievements of such great Persian writers as Ferdowsi and Sa'di who expressed a subversively humanistic vision in counterpoint to the transcendental Islamic scholasticism of the past but he also shines his intellectual spotlight on influential occidental thinkers ranging from Kant to Said whose humanism whether philosophical or literary fell short of true universality. In a masterful critique of the Eurocentrism he sees as being present if masked in the teaching of Comparative Literature he rescues Persian literature from the 'overextended narratives of Orientalism and ethnic nationalism' and shows how its vibrant aesthetic and spiritual qualities find expression in the work of contemporary writers filmmakers and artists. This important work of cultural history has urgent contemporary relevance."�Malise Ruthven Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2012 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 77958X1
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DADRIAN (V. N.)
Genocide as a problem of national and international law. The World War I armenian case and its contemporary ramifications.
Yale, 1989. Grand in-8 br., p.221-334, 17 pp.
Bookseller reference : 555554
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Daftary Farhad
A Short History of the Ismailis: Traditions of a Muslim Community Islamic Surveys series
Edinburgh: Ediinburgh University Press 1998. 1st printing. Fine/Fine. viii 248 p. chapter notes biblio index 8vo; Ediinburgh University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 24129 ISBN : 0748609040 9780748609048
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DAGHER (Joseph A.)
Répertoire des Bibliothèques du Proche et du Moyen-Orient.
Paris, Unesco, 1951. In-8 broché, 182 pp., 259 bibliothèques répertoriées, index.
Bookseller reference : 591908
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Dagron Gilbert
Constantinople imaginaire. Études sur le recueil des « patria »: Étude sur le recueil des Patria
Puf 1984 360 pages 17 9x22 5x2 2cm. 1984. Broché. 360 pages.
Bookseller reference : 100133202
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Dakhilih nazarataa 'umur muhaliyh wilayat [Interior Ministry for Vilayets].
Wilayat yawlalaa kharituh sydur [Road Maps of the Vilayets]. Istanbul, Dahiliye Nezareti Umur-Mahalliye-i Vilâyat Müdiriyeti, Hilâl Matbaas, [1913 CE =] 1329 Rumi.
Large 4to (260 x 328 mm). 26 bi-chrome lithographed double-page maps (each 485 x 315 mm), with 48 sheets of interleaved text, all contents unnumbered and entirely in Ottoman Turkish. Original half black cloth over red boards with cover bearing the title and the Tughra of Sultan Mehmed V Reshad in gilt. This is one of the rarest and most extraordinary works of late Ottoman cartography, produced by the Interior Ministry at the behest of the "Young Turks" regime on the eve of World War I. Published with text entirely in Ottoman Turkish, the atlas consists of 26 double-page maps, all of an extraordinary proto-modernist design, accompanied by detailed text explaining all of the road itineraries depicted. All of the maps are original productions, predicated upon the latest official sources supplied by both state engineers and private contractors. Of the maps, eight focus exclusively upon subjects from the Arab world, including a dedicated map of the Hejaz (with the Hejaz Railway and pilgrimage routes), as well as a map focussing upon Mecca and Jeddah. The atlas provides by far and away the most comprehensive and accurate record of the road system throughout the Ottoman Empire, taken in the wake of an unprecedented wave of infrastructure development. Additionally, while not part of the technical remit of the work, the maps also provide a stellar overview of the Ottoman railway system, including the Hejaz Railway and the in-progress Anatolian-Baghdad Railway. The atlas therefore gives the most authoritative historical accounts of the technical nature of the empire’s key corridors of military and commercial movement, as well as the most important routes of the Hajj Pilgrimage, during a critical historical juncture. - Internally remarkably clean and crisp, just some light natural oxidization of the original glue along the gutters of some leaves and light even toning to text pages, plus a few negligible stains, but overall in a very good condition. Özege 22737. Türkiye Diyanet Vakfý - Ýslâm Araþtýrmalarý Merkezi (ÝSAM) [Turkey Diyanet Foundation - Centre for Islamic Studies, Istanbul] 912.95607 VÝL.Y. Dâhiliye Nezareti Umur-i Mahalliye ve Vilayat Müdürlügü Evraki [Archives of the Turkish Interior Ministry, Ankara] DH UMVM 74/31. Istanbul Büyüksehir Belediyesi Atatürk Kitapligi [Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Atatürk Library] 23589. OCLC 51297423 (listing the work, but not citing the locations of any examples). - Citations in recent academic publications: E. Erol, The Ottoman Crisis in Western Anatolia: Turkey’s Belle Epoque and the and the Transition to a Modern Nation State (London, 2016), pp. 73 & 301. A. Kisa, "II. Mesrutiyet Dönemi’nde Bitlis Vilayeti’nde Karayollari" [Highways in Bitlis Province During the Second Constitutional Era], Tarih ve Gelecek Dergisi, Aralik 2019, Cilt 5, Sayi 3 [Journal of History and the Future, December 2019, Vol. 5, Issue 3], pp. 702-711, esp. pp. 707-708.
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Dale Walker
Fool's Paradise; One American's Search for Vestiges of an Ancient Culture in Modern-Day Saudi Arabia
Online sellers for over 8 years. We fully guarantee every item we sell. Buy with confidence here!Description: A slice of life in an exotic culture is told from a refreshing man-on-the-street perspective. The author chose to travel through Saudi Arabia by various means of public transportation and was therefore able to see things others usually miss.Publisher Information: Copyright date - 1980 stated first Vintage edition date - 1988 Vintage Books Random House New York # Pages - 242 softcover no dust jacket issued. Overall Condition: Good Plus: structurally intact relatively tight pages still off-white slight soil and wear light edge and corner wear on cover Vintage Books, Random House, paperback
Bookseller reference : biblio548 ISBN : 0394758188 9780394758183
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Dallas Roland
The Economist Pocket Middle East and North Africa
London: The Economist Books 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. thin 12mo. 166 pages. Hardcover with yellow illustrated dustjacket. Dust jacket is lightly scuffed on the back and rear corner has a small tear. Spine is sound and text is unmarked. History and facts on the Middle East and N. Africa. <br/> <br/> The Economist Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 023596 ISBN : 0241135133 9780241135136
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Dalrymple William
From the Holy Mountain A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
Henry Holt and Co. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket; Nice shape - no markings. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Magazine. 0805058737 . 9.50 X 6.40 X 1.60 inches; 496 pages . Henry Holt and Co. unknown
Bookseller reference : 124471 ISBN : 0805058737 9780805058734
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Dalrymple, Alexander.
Remarks on a Passage from P. Warwoor, to the Strait of Sunda, The Macklesfeild-Strait on the East of Banka, with the Journal of the Carnatic, Capt. Lestock Wilson. Published at the Charge of the East India Company, from the original MS. London, George Bigg, 1789.
4to. (2), VI, 60 pp. Stitched, untrimmed. A rare set of "remarks" concerning the Gaspar Straits and the east coast of Bangka Island, published by Dalrymple from the log of the East Indiaman Carnatic. A fascinating insight into the workings of Dalrymple and the East India Company. - As hydrographer to the East India Company from 1785, Alexander Dalrymple continually sought to update and correct the charts and pilots used by the Company's captains. To this end he sought the log books and observations of many of the voyages that took place between England and China, especially where they had detailed records of the China Seas and the approaches to it. Sometimes Dalrymple would request log books from the Company or the ship's captain, or as in the present work, the captain, Lestock Wilson, has taken the liberty of contacting Dalrymple himself. Dalrymple goes so far as to publish the correspondence at the beginning of the present work. - The observations and charts made by Captain Wilson so impressed Dalrymple that he not only included them in his chart of the area and published the present sailing directions, but also persuaded the East India Company to allow Wilson, now in command to the EIS (East India Ship) Vansittart, to carry out more detailed surveying of the area on his next voyage. Again Dalrymple publishes the Court of Directors minutes regarding Wilson's commission at the beginning of the present work. The decision by the Court of Directors to allow one of their ships to delay their journey to China in order to carry out surveying work was highly unusual. In fact, Andrew Cook, in his work on Dalrymple, highlights the Vansittart voyage as one of the only times that they consented to Dalrymple's request; and the Directors state, within the minutes, the reason why: "the propriety of some early ship carefully examining the Strait on the East of Banka, which is now justly preferred to the Strait of Banka, and intimating that Captain Wilson of the Vansittart, who has already passed that way, has by his Chart and the Observations communicated to Mr Dalrymple, shewn himself well qualified for effecting the desired object." The minutes go on to set out relatively loose stipulations on how (and how long) Wilson will be allowed to carry out the survey. What they do state is that, on his outbound journey, he is to survey the waters off the east coast of Bangka Island; taking no more than ten days, though more if strictly necessary, and that he must not miss the season's crossing to Canton. For the delay this will cause, they have ordered an unusually quick turnaround at Canton, in order to catch the prevailing winds on his return. The Gaspar Strait had previously been avoided by Company ships as the shoals were deemed too dangerous for safe passage, the Company preferring the safer yet longer Bangka Strait between the Island of Bangka and Sumatra. One of the reasons for the change, as mentioned by Wilson in the present work, was the increased size of the ships, together with the advent of the pocket chronometer, a fact alluded to by Wilson, who took an example of "Arnold's making, which kept time remarkably well, and the Longitude of several points is deduced from it". Alas, the surveying work that Wilson undertook, in the Vansittart, although successful, led to her being wrecked on one of the very shoals she had gone to survey. Wilson and the crew were rescued, but many of the treasure chests onboard were lost to the numerous pirates that patrolled the waters. - Pilot guides such as the present work rarely come on the market. We are only able to trace one example appearing at auction in the last 50 years, a collection of 47 pamphlets by Dalrymple, in Sotheby's 2014. - Some light spotting, title a little dust-soiled, occasional slight browning, small tear to last leaf affecting one word. Cook 15747.
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Damas R. P. de.
Voyages en Orient: La Galilée.
Paris Delhomme et Briguet ca. 1870. Octavo. Pp. 378. Hardcover contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards manuscript labels to spine. In fine condition old institutional stamps and label to prelims. Excellent practically unused copy fresh and bright. ~ New edition with an extended appendix of notes and related information. Tobler 190 earlier editions. Paris, Delhomme et Briguet, ca. 1870. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0862
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Damas R.P.de
En Orient, Le Sinaï, la Galilée, la Judée, Jérusalem
Delhomme et Briguet Bibliothèque Saint Germain Broché 0 "4 volumes in-8 brochés, couvertures illustrées, 313, 378, 341 et 257 ""pages, couvertures plus ou moins piquées, quelques rousseurs, papier du Sinaï"" et de ""Jérusalem""jauni, sans date, état très correct. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande."
Bookseller reference : bb1757
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Damiri, Muhammad ibn Musa.
Kitab hayat al-hayawan al-kubra. [A Zoological Lexicon]. [Ottoman provinces, 18th century and 1615 CE =] 1024 H.
2 volumes. 8vo (160 x 216 mm / 160 x 205 mm). Arabic manuscript on polished paper. First volume: 340 ff.; title-page with gilt borders. Second volume: 178 ff. Script in black naskh with occasional words, phrases, and punctuation in red. 19th century leather and morocco with fore-edge flaps, stamped in blind. An important Arabic bestiary and the most famous work of al-Damiri (1341-1405), little known in the West. In the "Hayat al-Hayawan", al-Damiri alphabetically lists over nine hundred animals mentioned in the Qur'an or known in Muslim literature; his extensive commentary explains the use of such animals in medicine, tradition, and ancient poetry: whether they can lawfully be eaten, and their role in folklore and superstition. - Al-Damiri was a Muslim writer from Mamluk-era Egypt, and his other works are largely on canon law. His natural history, however, is considered his most influential and popular writing. - The first volume is not dated or signed, but was written in the Ottoman provinces in the 18th century; the second volume was completed by the scribe Umar ibn Abd al-Da'im ibn Umar al-Dandi on the 15th of Muharram 1024 H (14 February 1615 CE). Covers a little worn, spines professionally rebacked, some light paper repairs and soiling. A scarce and appealing piece of mediaeval zoology; complete in two volumes dating from the 17th and 18th century. Cf. GAL II, 137/8.
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Damodar Singhat
Pakistan: The Modern in Historical Perspective
Asia Book Corp of Amer 1972. Gd. condition - From its creation in 1947 to its civil war with India . AI27520z. Soft Cover. Good. Asia Book Corp of Amer Paperback
Bookseller reference : 7520z ISBN : 0136484697 9780136484691
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Dan Bavly
Fire in Beirut -
Stein and Day Publishing - Hardcover/pub.1984/Gd. condition/255 pages - Israel's war in Lebanon with the PLO. AE53036z. Hard Cover. Good. Stein and Day Publishing - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3036z
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Dana Adams Schmidt
Armageddon in the Middle East Arab Vs. Israeli Through the October War
Middle East Wars: The New York Times Company 1974. 269 pgs. Slight cover wear. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. The New York Times Company Paperback
Bookseller reference : 011159 ISBN : 0381982513 9780381982515
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Danckerts, Cornelis.
Nova Persiae Armeniae Antoliae et Arabiae. [Amsterdam, 1690].
Oblong folio (590 x 500 mm). Engraved map in contemporary hand colour. Decorative cartouche, compass rose. Beautiful example of Cornelis Danckerts’ map showing the Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt, and the eastern part of the Mediterranean. Slightly brownstained; otherwise in fine condition. Al Ankary 77.
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DANDOLO Emilio
Viaggio in Egitto, nel Sudan in Siria ed in Palestina (1850-51)
In 8, cm 15 x 22, pp. 502 con 2 carte geografiche fuori testo piu' volte ripiegate (cm 32,5 x 35). Brossura editoriale con mancanze restaurata. Edizione originale, rara, della relazione del viaggio di Emilio Dandolo che, dopo le 5 cinque giornate di Milano e la difesa della repubblica romana, dall'esilio francese, intraprese questo viaggio in compagnia del Conte L. Trotti. Il racconto e' suddiviso in tre parti: Egitto (Alessandria, Il Cairo, il Nilo, Tebe); Sudan (Nubia, Kartum, il fiume Bianco, Ouadi - Halfa); Palestina, Siria (Beyrout, Damasco, Abougoseh, Gerusalemme).
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Daniel Pipes
Militant Islam Reaches America
USA: W. W. Norton & CompanyInc 2003. Book. Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. N.B. Corners a little creased. W. W. Norton & Company,Inc Paperback
Bookseller reference : 043052 ISBN : 0393325318 9780393325317
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Daniel Pipes
Militant Islam Reaches America -
W. W. Norton & Co. Publishers - 2002. Hardcover/pub.2002/Gd. condition/297 pages - Militant Islam is examined. KN75294z. Hardcover -. Good. W. W. Norton & Co. Publishers - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5294z ISBN : 0393052044 9780393052046
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DANIELOU Jean.
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Primitive Christianity.
New York: Mentor-Omega Books 1958. "Did Christianity begin with Jesus Christ or is it a modern version of an ancient Hebrew sect A Catholic theologian examines the astonishing answers found in the Dead Sea Scrolls". Ex convent library. Pp.128 8 b/w illustrations scuff to title page which is slightly loose. Pbk spine and lower covers slightly scuffed. G. . New York: Mentor-Omega Books, 1958. unknown
Bookseller reference : 15723
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Dann Uriel
King Hussein and the Challenge of Arab Radicalism: Jordan 1955-1967 Studies in Middle Eastern History
<p>Paperback 206 pages very good condition. </p> Oxford University Press, USA paperback
Bookseller reference : 1202 ISBN : 0195071344 9780195071344
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Danny Rubinstein
The Mystery Of Arafat -
Steerforth Press - 1995. Hardcover dj/pub.1995/VG condition/140 pages - Over the course of years I have held and heard innumerable conversations on the subject of Arafat and I have imagined I knew him well. It is doubtful tho ugh whether anyone can make that claim KH418 531. Hard Cover. Good. Steerforth Press - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 18531
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Danspeckgruber Wolfgang F.
THE IRAQI AGGRESSION AGAINST KUWAIT Strategic Lessons and Implications for Europe
Colorado: Westview Press 1996. pp xviii 344 contents clean and tight a new copy in fine condition. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. Large 8vo. Westview Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002183 ISBN : 0813386233 9780813386232
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Danvers, Frederick Charles.
The Portuguese in India. Being a history of the rise and decline of their eastern empire. London, W. H. Allen & Co., 1894.
2 vols. 8vo. LIII, (1), 572 pp. XV, (1), 579, (1) pp. With 2 frontispieces and numerous folding maps and views; a large folding map inserted into a pocket at the back of vol. 2. Publisher's original armorial gilt blue cloth. First edition. - Modern, encompassing history of Portuguese India, including an extensive account of the campaigns and operations of Afonso de Albuquerque in the Arabian Gulf, which he entered as the first European. "In 1506 Albuquerque was despatched from Lisbon on an expedition, intended to consolidate Portuguese supremacy in the Indian Ocean. His instructions were to monopolize trade with East India for portugal, and to exclude both Venetians and Saracens from Indian waters [...] Attacks were made on the Arab ports at Malindi, Hoja, Lamu and Brava, before continuing to Socotra [...] Sailing from Socotra with six ships, Albuquerque coasted the Arabian peninsula, sacked Muscat and Sohar, and then launched an attack on Hormuz during the months of September and October 1507. In spite of the overwhelming forces assembled against him by the island's twelve-year-old ruler, Albuquerque mounted a successful siege, with the result that the ruler become a vassal of the Portuguese crown" (Howgego I, 19ff.). - Signed "A. J. Whittle" on half-titles (but struck out in vol. 1). Slight rubbing to extremeties, fine altogether.
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Danz, Johann Andreas.
[Segulota di-rabanan] sive Rabbinismus enucleatus, quo ad ea, quae Ebraeo-Chaldaeis vel prorsus non, vel minus usitata sunt [...]. Editio tertia. Jena, Johann Felix Bielcke, 1714.
8vo. (12), 118, (30) pp. - (Bound with) II: The same. [Taro desurio petiho], sive Aditus Syriae reclusus, compendiose ducens ad plenam linguae Syriacae Antichenae seu Maroniticae cognitionem, iuxta viam literatoris Ebraeo-Chaldaei. Ibid., 1715. (10), 92 pp. Contemporary boards. Third edition of Danz's instruction book in the Rabbinic-Hebrew dialects, bound with his introduction to Syriac. The German theologian and oriental scholar Danz (1654-1727) taught at Jena since 1685. He coined several specialist terms of oriental studies and described many Hebrew realia. - Slightly browned; a few edge flaws; old handwritten ownership to title-page. Untrimmed copy. Includes a bifolium of notes in Hebrew and Syriac by a contemporary reader, loosely inserted. OCLC 234072721, 69405205. Cf. ADB IV, 751.
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Daphna Baram
Disechantment. The Guardian and Israel.
London: Guardian Books 2008. Book. Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Small plain label inside cover. Guardian Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 056275 ISBN : 0852650906 9780852650905
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Dapper, Olfert.
Naukeurige beschryving van Asie: behelsende de gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, of Klein Asie: beneffens eene volkome beschrijving van gantsch gelukkigh, woest, en petreesch of steenigh Arabie [...]. Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1680.
2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. (8), 357, (3), 324, (4) pp. With engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, 16 engraved views and maps (2 folding, 14 double-page; 4 drawn by Charles Vasteau), and 22 engraved illustrations in the text (3 signed by Johannes Kip), further with 5 woodcut decorated initials (3 series) plus repeats and a woodcut headpiece and tailpiece. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, manuscript spine title, red sprinkled edges. First edition of Olfert Dapper's important description of the Middle East. The first part is devoted to Mesopotamia or Algizira, Babylonia, Assyria and Anatolia, while the second is entirely devoted to Arabia. The work is especially important for the original and new information on Islam, Arabic science, astronomy, philosophy and historiography. Besides a map of Arabia, the fine plates include views of Mount Sinai, Bagdad, Basra, Nineveh, Abydos, Smyrna, Aden, Muscat, Mocha the Tower of Babel. The second part includes a description of coffee: "In Arabia Felix alone, and in no other place of the whole world, there grows a seed or corn or bean shrub which the Arabs call 'Bon' or 'Ban', of which they prepare a drink by cooking it in water over the fire ..." (part 2, pp. 61f.). The present copy includes a plate showing the plants "Abelmosch", "Semsen" and "Sambak", not called for in the binder's instructions, but included in some copies. - A German translation of Dapper's account appeared in 1681. - Front hinge cracked, otherwise in very good condition. Atabey 322; Hage Chahine 1206; Hünersdorff, Coffee, p. 386; Tiele, Bibl. 300; cf. Blackmer 450 (German ed.); Slot, The Arabs of the Gulf, p. 412.
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Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah Museum
Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah Guide
Safat Kuwait: Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah Clean and well bound in English and Arabic illustrated 24 large-format pages in printed stiff wrap covers. Edition Unstated Undated. Soft Cover. Very Good. Quarto. Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah Paperback
Bookseller reference : 15149
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DARBOIS Georges (M. l'Abbé G. D.)]
Jérusalem et la Terre Sainte . Notes de Voyage, recueillies et mises en ordre par M. l'Abbé G. D. . Illustrations de M. Rouargue
,Paris, Belin-Leprieur et Morizot s. d. 1852, VII-399 pp., 1 vol. in 4 relié demi-chagrin, dos à nerfs orné de caissons estampés à froid, titre dorés, toutes tranches dorées, plats percaline, qq. rouss., bel exemplaire. Edition illustrée de 24 planches gravées sur acier de Rouargue hors-texte dont le frontispice, 1 carte et un plan en premier tirage - Cf Barbier II-992/a.
Bookseller reference : 9547
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Darwish Adel and Alexander Gregory
Unholy Babylon : the secret history of Saddam's war
Good/No Jacket as Issued. 1st U.S. ed. Bottom edge shelfworn soiled; sm crimp top of spine contents clean in tight binding. hi St. Martin's Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 000431 ISBN : 0312065302 9780312065300
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Das Bhagavan
It's Here Now Are You: A Spiritual Memoir
New York New York U.S.A.: Broadway Books 1997. Hardcover/Gd. condition/310 pages - A spiritual memoir. Bhagavan fulfills his original mission as a messenger of Eastern wisdom and sheds light on the new spirituality of the West. HI6A. Hard Cover. Good. Broadway Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : K2505 ISBN : 0767900081 9780767900089
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Daud Sutton
Islamic Design: A Genius for Geometry
Walker & Co 2007. Gd. condition - Pattern making with geometry . AE97611zz. Hard Cover. Good. Walker & Co Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7611z ISBN : 0802716350 9780802716354
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DAULNAIE Jean .
ILS ONT DISPERSÉ L'HÉRITAGE .
Les Editions du Cèdre, Paris, 1963, préface de l'Amiral AUPHAN, broché, 144pp. très bon état, 190x120 . (p2)
Bookseller reference : 8578
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Daumas, Eugene.
Die Pferde der Sahara. Berlin, Allgemeine Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1858.
8vo. 2 parts in 1 volume. VI, 202 pp. VI, 114 pp. Modern orange cloth. Second German edition (the original French edition appeared in 1851); an English translation was published in 1863. The book is divided into two parts and includes extensive information on the principles of Arabian cavalry, military costumes of horsemen, celebrated Arabian horse breeds (Haymour, Bou-ghareb, Meizique), how to choose and acquire your horse, nutrition, hygiene, the meaning of the variously coloured horse attires, rigging, veterinarian medicine and illnesses, crippledness, castration, various kinds of military attacks in the deserts and how to execute them, tribal wars, as well as ostrich, gazelle, and falcon hunting. The book concludes with general remarks on the Sahara desert and a letter from the Algerian Sufi saint and military and religious leader Abd-el-Kader (1808-83), the Emir of Mascara who founded the Algerian state and led the Algerians in their struggle against French domination and in 1847 was imprisoned with his family by the French government in the fortress of Lamalgue in Toulon (France). The Emir wrote the letter while Daumas served as French consul in Mascara. In this letter the Emir, calling himself Daumas' friend, answers some questions Daumas previously asked him while preparing this book. - The French cavalry general Melchior Joseph Eugène Daumas (1803-71) was "directeur des affaires d'Algerie" and also served as Minister of War. "De 1837 à 1839, il avait rempli, auprès d'Abd-el-Kader, à Mascara, les fonctions de consul, et en 1847 il fut chargé d'une mission spéciale auprès de l'Emir, alors détenu au fort Lamalgue, à Toulon. Ces relations amicales expliquent la part prise par Abd-el-Kader à certains ouvrages du Général Daumas" (Mennessier de la L.). - Some annotations in coloured pencil. Old handwritten ownership "Berkovich" to title and preface. Title-page and table of contents professionally repaired. Cf. Mennessier de la Lance I, 348. Huth 178. Not in Fromm.
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Daumas, Melchior Joseph Eugene.
Les chevaux du Sahara et les moeurs du désert [...]. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1858.
8vo. (4), II, 3-438 pp. Original printed wrappers of the identical fourth edition. Fifth edition of General Daumas' work on all aspects of the Arabian horses of the Sahara desert. With commentary by the Algerian Sufi saint and military and religious leader Abd-el-Kader (1808-83), the Emir of Mascara who founded the Algerian state and led the Algerians in their struggle against French domination, and in 1847 was imprisoned with his family by the French government in the fortress of Lamalgue in Toulon. - Divided into two parts, the book includes extensive information on the principles of Arabian cavalry, military costumes of horsemen, celebrated Arabian horse breeds (Haymour, Bou-ghareb, Meizique), how to choose and acquire one's horse, nutrition, hygiene, the meaning of the variously coloured equestrian attires, rigging, veterinarian medicine and illnesses, crippled horses, castration, various kinds of military attacks in the desert and how to execute them, tribal wars, as well as ostrich, gazelle, and falcon hunting. - Daumas (1803-71), a French general of the first cavalry division, was posted to Algeria in 1835, which Charles X had invaded five years previously. Daumas participated in 18 Algerian campaigns, including those of Mascara and Tlemcen. Between 1837 and 1839, Daumas resided in Mascara as consul and personally got to know the Emir of Mascara. While in Algeria, Daumas learned the Arabic language and became one of the French army's leading experts on Arab culture in North Africa. Tribesmen came to respect him for his skills on horseback. In April 1850 he became director of Algerian affairs at the Ministry of War in Paris. - Contemporary handwritten ownership by the French scholar Paulin Malosse to half-title. Occasional light foxing. A fine copy of this equestrian classic. Mennessier de la Lance I, 349. Huth 178. Boyd/P. 33. Cf. Gay 1524. Not in Podeschi.
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Daussy, Pierre.
Carte des Cotes d'Arabie et de Perse. Paris, 1840.
Engraved chart (87 x 59 cm), hand-coloured in outline. Chart of the Arabian Sea. From Eastern Arabia, the Gulf, the coast of Beluchistan to the Western coast of India. Alai, Special maps E.294. Not in Al Ankary; Al-Qasimi.
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Daveed Gartenstein Ross
My Year Inside Radical Islam -
Jeremy P. Tarcher Publishing - 2007. Hardcover/Gd. condition/293 pages - A memoir of first a spiritual and then a political seduction. K604HT1. Hard Cover. Good. Jeremy P. Tarcher Publishing - Hardcover
Bookseller reference : K604
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David Cowan
An Introduction to Modern Literary Arabic -
Cambridge University Press - 1958. Hardcover/pub. 1958/Gd. condition/201 pages - The grammatical structure of the modern Arabic literary language L12636z. Hardcover. Good. Cambridge University Press - hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2636z
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David Fleishhacker
Lessons From Afghanistan -
D F Publishing - 2001. PB/pub.2001/Gd.condition/154 pages - Filled with details of life in Afghanistan. TR134878. Soft Cover. Good. D F Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 34878
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David K. Shipler
Arab & Jews -
Times Publishing - 1986. Hardcover/pub.1986/Gd.condition/522 pages - Arab and Jew history. TI736231. Hardcover. Good. Times Publishing - hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36231
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David K. Shipler
Arab And Jew -
Penguin Publishing - 1987. PB/pub.1987/Gd. condition/596 pages - Wounded spirits in a promised land is discussed. TA731909. Soft Cover. Good. Penguin Publishing - Paperback
Bookseller reference : 31909
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