Alarms and Excursions in Arabia: The Life and Works of Bertram Thomas in Early 20th Century Iraq and Oman, Paperback - Ibn Al Hamra

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Orthodox Theology in the 20th century and early 21st century

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A major work of mystical literature, this account focuses on 14 visions in the form of dramatic conversations with the divine, interspersed with da...

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Anthony Peake re-assesses the plays and novels of J.B. Priestley.

This book, first published in 2007, offered the first and only summary of decades of archaeological research in the Oman Peninsula. The original el...

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A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing in an important new translationBetween the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab explorer...

Ibn 'Arabi--born in 1165 in Andalusia and died in 1240 in Damascus--was recognised in his lifetime as al-Shaykh al-Akbar, the supreme spiritual Mas...

Ibn'Arabi is one of the greatest writers of mystical literature of any era. The voyages recounted in the enigmatic Secrets of Voyaging offer reader...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book searches for an understanding of the historiography of planning in a European dimension. Scholars from Eastern and Western, Southern and ...

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A new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United States' longest and ...

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Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag AGAuthor(s): J C WilkinsonIllustration(s): 30 maps & illus & 14 platesNumber of pages: 292Publication date: 2013Dimens...

Reducere. A Life in the 20th Century an autobiography by Nathalie Marguerite GrandjeanI am a family genealogist. When I started writing this memoir it was wi...

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