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The book is a collection of short stories from the Middle East, edited by Henry Iliowizi, as can be inferred from the title. The nine tales featured in the book share the same mythical qualities and include: 'The Doom of Al Zameri', 'Sheddad's Palace of Irem', 'The Mystery of the Damavant', 'The Gods in Exile', 'King Solomon and Ashmodai', 'The Crœsus of Yemen', 'The Fate of Arzemia', 'The Student of Timbuctu', and 'A Night by the Dead Sea'.
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Excerpt from The Weird Orient: Nine Mystic Tales In introducing to the general public a writer who ha heretofore been known chiefly among the people of his own race, his publishers may perhaps be permitted to say a word. Rabbi Iliowizi is a Hebrew of pure lineage, the son of a zealous member of the Chassidim, a Kabbalistic sect numbering over half a million members in Russia, Roumania and Gallicia, but rarely met with in this country. He passed his infancy and boyhood in the Russian provinces of Minsk and Moghileff, and in Roumania, growing to manhood and receiving his education at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Berlin and Breslau, where he qualified himself for a theological career. After six years...
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