Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Legends of the Fire Spirits
'An energy, a pulse form of quantum physics perhaps, alive at the margins of sleep or madness, and more often in the whispering of a single unwelcome thought.' The Economist According to Islamic tradition, Allah created three types of beings: angels, made of light; humans, made of earth; and jinn, made of smokeless fire. Supernatural, shape-shifting, intelligent and blessed with free will and remarkable powers, jinn have over the ages been given many names - demon, spirit, ghoul, genie, ifrit and shaitan. Neither human nor immortal, they roam the earth inhabiting dark and empty places, luring humans to their deaths or demonically possessing them if harmed or offended. Despite the fact they c...
The Anomaly
The Anomaly is an adventure tale that combines science fiction, the paranormal, ancient myths and Arabian oil in a dangerous quest for a lost city buried beneath the dunes of the Empty Quarter, the great sand sea of the Arabian Peninsula. Prof. Emily Goddard, a Middle East scholar from Princeton, heads a team of specialists sent to Arabia to investigate a bizarre “anomaly” found by petroleum geoscientists during a seismic survey. Some think the anomaly is actually a legendary lost city, buried beneath the sands by a colossal sandstorm in ancient times. Others think it is a living community of some kind, perhaps a “headquarters,” hidden from the rest of the world.Prof. Goddard, daughter of an American oil worker who spent her childhood in Arabia, comes face-to-face with grim memories and unexplained mysteries from her past. In the process, she makes an amazing connection that changes her life forever.
Natural Remedies of Arabia
Robert Lebling and Donna Pepperdine have completed a rigorous study of the health remedies traditionally recognized across Arabia--an ambitious project executed with conscientious attention to detail. The result is an impressive body of research, combining a thorough text with good pictorial coverage --a unique approach to a subject that will be of widespread interest. This timely volume comes just as the age-old regional knowledge of the remedies naturally available--encapsulated in an oral tradition carrying hundreds of years of empirical knowledge--is being allowed to drift from contemporary consciousness, replaced by a new blind faith in the remedies widely promoted by the major pharmaceutical companies.
De Rey's Saracen Invasions of Provence
This is an English translation of "Les invasions des Sarrasins en Provence pendant le VIIIe, le IXe, et le Xe, siecle" (1878) by Gonzague de Rey. It deals with Arab military incursions into Southern France in medieval times, primarily from al-Andalus, or Islamic Spain.
Legends of the Fire Spirits
According to Islamic tradition, Allah created three types of beings: angels, made of light; humans, made of clay; and jinn, made of smokeless fire. Supernatural, shape-shifting, intelligent and blessed with free will and remarkable powers, jinn have over the ages been given many names-demon, spirit, ghoul, genie, ifrit and shaitan. Neither human nor immortal, they roam the earth inhabiting dark and empty places, luring humans to their deaths or demonically possessing them if harmed or offended. Despite the fact they cannot always be seen, jinn are said to be strangely human-like-marrying, bearing children, forming communities and tribes, eating, sleeping, playing and facing judgment like any other human. They are ever-present partners in the human experience, causing endless mischief, providing amazing services and sometimes inducing sheer terror.
Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn
According to the Qur’an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. Beliefs regarding the jinn are deeply integrated into Muslim culture and religion, and have a constant presence in legends, myths, poetry, and literature. In Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn, Amira El-Zein explores the integral role these mythological figures play, revealing that the concept of jinn is fundamental to understanding Muslim culture and tradition.
William Starbuck Mayo's Kaloolah
William Starbuck Mayo, a physician from Ogdensburg, N.Y., and rival of literary icon Herman Melville, authored "Kaloolah," a lost-race novel and adventure/romance, set in the Sahara and Central Africa. His novel was a runaway bestseller in New York and London in 1849. We now know that his writings influenced Melville in his writing of "Moby-Dick." This edition has been edited and annotated by Robert W. Lebling, and includes an introduction that details the literary connections between Mayo and Melville.
Poems
Reproduction of the original: Poems by Victor Hugo
The Voice, the Word, the Books
Drawing on the latest Biblical and Quranic scholarship, the human fingerprints on the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and Quran are examined in an extraordinary journey through centuries of the transmission of faith from the spoken word to the written page.
Kaloolah
William Starbuck Mayo, a physician from Ogdensburg, N.Y., and rival of literary icon Herman Melville, authored "Kaloolah," a lost-race novel and adventure/romance, set in the Sahara and Central Africa. His novel was a runaway bestseller in New York and London in 1849. We now know that his writings influenced Melville in his writing of "Moby-Dick." This edition has been edited and annotated by Robert W. Lebling, and includes an introduction that details the literary connections between Mayo and Melville.
