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After having been stolen from his homeland of Zanzibar and carted off as wares in the Arabian land of Zwaylem, Faraj makes a life for himself like no other slave before him. Strong in spirit and body, he perseveres to become Zwaylem's best pearl diver who is admired and well-respected by his peers and even the masters. Determined to no longer be captive by man's chains, he uses his talents to return to the dignified God given life of a free man in which he was born....Until he meets and falls in love with the beautiful daughter of one of Zwaylem's Noble Masters. It is no longer the physical chains that bind him but rather the matters of his heart. Faraj's passionate journey to freedom for his body and heart takes him down paths that only faith can explain.
This book explores the struggle for disability rights, with a focus on Web equality for people with cognitive disabilities.
The Annual International Conference on Shi‘i Studies is organised by the Research and Publications Department of The Islamic College, London. The conference aims to provide a broad platform for scholars working in the field of Shi‘i Studies to present their latest research and to explore diverse opinions on Shi‘i thought, practice, and heritage. This book comprises a selection of papers from the fourth conference held on 5-6 May 2018.
The Annual International Conference on Shi‘i Studies is organised by the Research and Publications Department of The Islamic College, London. The conference aims to provide a broad platform for scholars working in the field of Shi‘i Studies to present their latest research and to explore diverse opinions on Shi‘i thought, practice, and heritage. This book comprises a selection of papers from the second conference held on 7–8 May 2016.
For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the West India Regiments, a British unit in existence 1795-1815), the Sudanese were imported from Africa in the hopes that they would better survive the tropical diseases that so terribly afflicted European soldiers. In both cases, the Africans did indeed fulfill these expectations. The mixture of cultures embodied by this event has piqued the interest of several historians, so it is by no means unknown. Hill and Hogg provide a particularly thorough account of this exotic interlude, explaining its bac...
During a period of over five years of work in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, the author has examined the majority of its Arabic manuscripts in order to provide some elementary codicological data. This monograph describes the Kitāb Ġurar al-fawāyd by as-Sarīf al-Murtaḍā contained in manuscript MS.1665 (H 43) and other copies of the same text preserved in some Western European libraries, with regard to their historical, linguistic, artistic and bibliographic aspects. During a period of over five years of work in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, the author has examined the majority of its Arabic manuscripts in order to provide some elementary codicological data. This monograph describes the Kitāb Ġurar al-fawāyd by as-Sarīf al-Murtaḍā contained in manuscript MS.1665 (H 43) and other copies of the same text preserved in some Western European libraries, with regard to their historical, linguistic, artistic and bibliographic aspects.
Contextualizing Translation Theories: Aspects of Arabic–English Interlingual Communication provides critical readings of available strategies of translating, ranging from the familiar concept of equivalence, to strategies of modulation, domestication, foreignization and mores of translation. As such, this volume demonstrates to the reader the pros and cons of each of these strategies within a theoretical context that is augmented by translational tasks and examples, most derived from actual textual data.
A highly readable look at the role of the US and NATO in Libya's war of liberation, and its lessons for future military interventions.
The Subject Index is a valuable guide for anyone interested in the work of the General Assembly. It offers sessional information; a check-list of meetings; information on pricipal organs and subsidiary bodies to which members were elected or appointed; a subject list of documents; reports of the main and procedural committees; resolutions and decisions adopted; and a voting chart.
This desk reference provides biodata, biographical sketches, and source material for approximately 500 men and women who have played a major role in Egypt's national life.