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A Treasury of Virtues
Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of 'Ali, with the One Hundred Proverbs attributed to al-Jahiz
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A Treasury of Virtues is a collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40/661), the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, the first Shia Imam and the fourth Sunni Caliph.
An acknowledged master of Arabic eloquence and a sage of Islamic wisdom,...
A Year at the Helm of the United Nations General Assembly
A Vision for our Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
From September 2011 to September 2012,
Ambassador Nasser Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar presided over the 66th session
of the “world’s parliament” – the United Nations General Assembly. It was a
critical moment in international affairs as the UN responded to a range of
global challenges, from...
Contemporary Plays from Iraq
A Cradle; A Strange Bird on Our Roof; Cartoon Dreams; Ishtar in Baghdad; Me, Torture, and Your Love; Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad; Summer Rain; The Takeover; The Widow
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Contemporary Plays from Iraq is a ground-breaking collection of Middle Eastern drama translated into English for the very first time. With works from both established and emerging male and female playwrights, written in country and in exile, this volume offers current Iraqi perspectives on a war and...
Ibn Zuraiq Al-Baghdadi
A Passenger of Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
In fact, that night, I could not sleep a wink. I imagined Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Zuraiq al-Baghdadi's last night, sleeping restlessly until he took his last breath, beaten by despair, sorrow, homesickness, regret, and while reciting his only lines of poetry. That night, I was about to take my last breath...
by Yusuf al-Shirbini
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded pits the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined” urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural “types”—peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervish—offering anecdotes testifying...
Consorts of the Caliphs
Women and the Court of Baghdad
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Accounts of remarkable women at the world's most powerful court
Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of
anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were consorts to those in power, most of
them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs
and...
Im Haus der Weisheit
Die arabischen Wissenschaften als Fundament unserer Kultur
Language: German
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Wer stürzte lange vor Kopernikus das heliozentrische Weltbild? Ibn al-Shatir. Wer beschrieb als Erster den Blutkreislauf? Ibn al-Nafees. Wer war vor Leonardo das erste Universalgenie? Abu Rayan al-Biruni. Im 9. Jahrhundert gründete der Kalif von Bagdad das legendäre "Haus der Weisheit",...
Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah
The Transformation of Kuwait
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Sheikh Mubarak was the founder of the modern state of Kuwait. But the man who actually led Kuwait to modernity was his son Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah, one of the most significant figures of Kuwait from the 1940s to Kuwaiti independence in 1961. Largely responsible for the creation of the Kuwaiti defence...
I segreti dei fiori e degli uccelli
Le allegorie mistiche di un maestro sufi del XIII secolo
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 13, 2013
È la prima traduzione italiana di un classico della letteratura mistica medievale in lingua araba. L’opera è un unicum nella storia del sufismo. L’autore – un mistico egiziano del XIII secolo – in questa sua opera, l’unica pervenutaci, dissemina insegnamenti sapienziali attraverso l’uso...
¿Quién le hacía la cena a Adam Smith?
Una historia de las mujeres y la economía
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Un análisis fascinante de la historia de la economía y del pensamiento económico desde un enfoque femenino.
Katrine Marçal se enfrenta en este ensayo al gran mito económico que ha configurado el mundo contemporáneo, y nos anima a acabar con el Homo economicus de una vez por todas.
Adam...
Los Cuatro Colores de Las Personalidades para MLM
El Lenguaje Secreto para Redes de Mercadeo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Crear lazos instantáneos, comunicación instantánea, y cómo hacer que los prospectos para tu negocio de redes de mercadeo comprendan y actúen sobre tu mensaje = ¡diversión!
Esta es la más divertida de las 25 habilidades de redes de mercadeo....
Stories of the Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho - Part Five
His Life, His Deeds, His Way to Al'lah
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
Mohammad Amin Sheikho Birth: 1890 A.D. Death: 1964 A.D. Precept: Interpretation of the Holy Qur'an CONTENTS - Introduction - Stories of the Scholar – Part 5 - The Dignity of a Believing Officer. - His Enemies Confessed to His Excellence. - The Officer, a Repentant Criminal and a Chicken Coop. -...
Paradox
The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes.
Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense. These we call paradoxes. The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent those...
by Al-Anon Family Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
More daily inspiration from a fresh, diverse perspective. Insightful reflections reveal surprisingly simple things that can transform lives.