Travels of Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbon, who in the latter end of the 12. century, visited Poland, Russia, Little Tartary, the Crimea, Armenia ...
Title | Travels of Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbon, who in the latter end of the 12. century, visited Poland, Russia, Little Tartary, the Crimea, Armenia ... PDF eBook |
Author | Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbon |
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Pages | 124 |
Release | 1856 |
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Iranian Folk Narrative
Title | Iranian Folk Narrative PDF eBook |
Author | Juliet Radhayrapetian |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1315515393 |
For centuries Iran hosted numerous travellers and visitors of diverse nationalities and backgrounds. Many of these travellers left behind documents in which they recorded their observations during their residence in Iran, and these embody a vast range of firsthand information about the land and its people at different periods of time. This book, first published in 1990, takes as its subjects the nature and history of Iranian folk narrative scholarship. The contributions of travellers are given their due recognition as important source documents.
Tamerlane and the Jews
Title | Tamerlane and the Jews PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Shterenshis |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 113687366X |
This book provides a general introduction to the history of Jewish life in 14th century Asia at the time of the conqueror Tamerlane (Timur). The author defines who are the Central Asian Jews, and describes the attitudes towards the Jews, and the historical consequences of this relationship with Tamerlane. Left alone to live within a stable empire, the Jews prospered under Tamerlane. In founding an empire, Tamerlane had delivered Central Asia from the last Mongols, and brought the nations of Transoxonia within the orbit of Persian civilisation. The Central Asian Jews accepted this spirit and preserved it until modern times in their language and culture.
The Monthly Literary Advertiser
Title | The Monthly Literary Advertiser PDF eBook |
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Pages | 228 |
Release | 1856 |
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New Princeton Review
Title | New Princeton Review PDF eBook |
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Publisher | |
Pages | 874 |
Release | 1857 |
Genre | Religion |
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The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review
Title | The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Hodge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1857 |
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Synagogues in the Islamic World
Title | Synagogues in the Islamic World PDF eBook |
Author | Gharipour Mohammad Gharipour |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2019-07-30 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1474468438 |
This beautifully illustrated volume looks at the spaces created by and for Jews in areas under the political or religious control of Muslims. Covering regions as diverse as Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, it asks how the architecture of synagogues responded to contextual issues and traditions, and how these contexts influenced the design and evolution of synagogues. As well as revealing how synagogues reflect the culture of the Jewish minority at macro and micro scales, from the city to the interior, the book also considers patterns of the development of synagogues in urban contexts and in connection with urban elements and monuments.