Eastward to Tartary
Title | Eastward to Tartary PDF eBook |
Author | Robert D. Kaplan |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 2014-11-12 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0804153477 |
Eastward to Tartary, Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of this unstable area that he describes as the new fault line between East and West. He ventures from Turkey, Syria, and Israel to the turbulent countries of the Caucasus, from the newly rich city of Baku to the deserts of Turkmenistan and the killing fields of Armenia. The result is must reading for anyone concerned about the state of our world in the decades to come.
Journey in the Caucasus, Persia, and Turkey in Asia
Title | Journey in the Caucasus, Persia, and Turkey in Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Freiherr Max von Thielmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | Caucasus |
ISBN |
Journey in the Caucasus, Persia, and Turkey in Asia
Title | Journey in the Caucasus, Persia, and Turkey in Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Max von Thielmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1875 |
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D, Society. E, Geography. 1912
Title | D, Society. E, Geography. 1912 PDF eBook |
Author | William Swan Sonnenschein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 630 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Best books |
ISBN |
A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1885-1886
Title | A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1885-1886 PDF eBook |
Author | Mirzâ Mohammed Hosayn Farâhâni |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2015-01-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0292716516 |
Western accounts of the Hajj, the ritual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, are rare, since access to Mecca is forbidden to non-Muslims. In the Muslim world, however, pilgrimage literature is a well-established genre, dating back to the earliest centuries of the Islamic era. A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca is taken from the original nineteenth-century Persian manuscript of the Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Moḥammad Ḥosayn Farâhâni, a well-educated, keenly observant, Iranian Shiʿite gentleman. This memoir holds a wealth of social and economic information about Czarist Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Northern Iran, and Arabia. The author is a meticulous observer, recording details of distances, currencies, accommodations, modes of travel, and so on. He records the experiences encountered by pilgrims of his day: physical hardships, disease, generosity and compassion, banditry, hospitality, comradeship, and exaltation. And, without prejudice, he discusses the tensions between the Shiʿites and the Sunnites in the holy places—tensions that still exist and have erupted in bloody clashes during recent pilgrimages. A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca will appeal to a wide audience of general readers, Middle Eastern scholars, anthropologists, and historians.
Journey in the Caucasus, Persia, and Turkey in Asia
Title | Journey in the Caucasus, Persia, and Turkey in Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Max von Thielmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | |
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Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Spain, Turkey, India and Persia
Title | Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Spain, Turkey, India and Persia PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Greenhalgh |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2022-11-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9004524851 |
An anthology of mainly 17th to early 20th-century Western published descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Spain, Turkey, India and Persia, charting decoration, dilapidation and restoration, as well as the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East.