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Abba’s Garden

David Crowden
Abba s Garden Book PDF

Author : David Crowden
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798891302129

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It was a hot summer day, and a boy is playing on the steps of a local church in his neighborhood. He checks the door to see if it's open, looking for a drink of water or a temporary escape from the heat of the day. The door opens, introducing a beautiful garden. As he begins to explore, he meets talking animals and the first man. Later he meets the Creator Himself and discovers that the Creator had been looking for him. He also meets a serpent-type creature that follows him out of the garden and tries to make his life a wreck. A venture into an unknown garden forever changes the lives of so many when a boy discovers Abba's Garden.

Abba's Garden

David Crowden
Abba s Garden Book PDF

Author : David Crowden
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798891302112

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Abba's Garden by David Crowden Pdf

It was a hot summer day, and a boy is playing on the steps of a local church in his neighborhood. He checks the door to see if it's open, looking for a drink of water or a temporary escape from the heat of the day. The door opens, introducing a beautiful garden. As he begins to explore, he meets talking animals and the first man. Later he meets the Creator Himself and discovers that the Creator had been looking for him. He also meets a serpent-type creature that follows him out of the garden and tries to make his life a wreck. A venture into an unknown garden forever changes the lives of so many when a boy discovers Abba's Garden.

Thus Ruled Emir Abbas

Allen Christelow
Thus Ruled Emir Abbas Book PDF

Author : Allen Christelow
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609172688

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Thus Ruled Emir Abbas by Allen Christelow Pdf

Thus Ruled Emir Abbas is an important new research tool that reveals much about daily life in Kano, the wealthiest and most populous emirate of the African Sokoto Caliphate. It contains a selection of Kano Judicial Council documents, as well as their English translations, that deal with matters such as land disputes, tax collection disputes, and theft. These documents are invaluable resources that reveal much about Kano social, economic, and political life before the region came under the influence of colonial institutions, law, and language. This selection of records for more than 415 cases, along with their translations, will become essential reading for those interested in Nigeria’s past and will certainly become a standard work in the field of Nigerian history and anthropology.

Shah Abbas

David Blow
Shah Abbas Book PDF

Author : David Blow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786729538

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Shah Abbas by David Blow Pdf

Shah Abbas (1571-1629) was shah of Iran from 1588 (when he assumed power by deposing his father, whom he later murdered) until his death in 1629. He is of critical importance in the history of Iran, restoring the power of the Safavids through war and the strategic negotiation of peace. He is still acclaimed for his strong and decisive rule and the architectural achievements of his reign although he is also recognised as a tyrant, whose paranoia (probably justified) caused him to imprison and assassinate many of his own relatives including his own son, ultimately leaving the throne to his grandson.Remarkably, this is the first biography of Shah Abbas in English. "On a Persian Throne" combines rigorous scholarship with a popular style to produce the definitive, accessible and objective biography of this seminal figure in Iranian history.

Abbas Kiarostami's Cinema of Life

Julian Rice
Abbas Kiarostami s Cinema of Life Book PDF

Author : Julian Rice
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538137017

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Abbas Kiarostami's Cinema of Life by Julian Rice Pdf

Standing apart from celebrated Iranian ideals of war and martyrdom, revolutionary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami was known as a man who praised life and celebrated it in all his works. Creating films for more than 40 years during times of unending war and political turmoil, Kiarostami promoted the Sufi tradition of seeing God as part of nature and the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian ideal of environmental protection. Kiarostami’s self-image as a citizen of the world, his renunciation of war, and his concern for the future of nature cement his importance within the art form of poetic cinema. Addressing Kiarostami’s illumination of humanity’s self-destructive tendencies, author Julian Rice presents a detailed analysis of twelve individual films, from Homework (1989) to Like Someone in Love (2012). Departing from concerns of spectatorship or film in general, Rice’s book portrays the human and spiritual core of Kiarostami. Connected to all other humans and to the earth we all inhabit, Kiarostami’s vision remains a powerful message for film scholars and peaceful people everywhere.

Middle East Garden Traditions

Michel Conan,Dumbarton Oaks
Middle East Garden Traditions Book PDF

Author : Michel Conan,Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 088402329X

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Middle East Garden Traditions by Michel Conan,Dumbarton Oaks Pdf

This book unites new information and surprising results from the last fifteen years of garden research, at a remove from the clichés of Orientalism. Garden archaeology reveals the economic importance of Judean gardens in Roman times and the visual complexity of gardens created and transformed in Moorish Spain. More contemporary approaches unravel the cultural continuities, variations, and differences between gardens in the Middle East since Roman times and in the Islamic world.

Isfahan and its Palaces

Sussan Babaie
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Author : Sussan Babaie
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780748633760

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Isfahan and its Palaces by Sussan Babaie Pdf

Winner of the Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award 2009This beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (1501-1722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action that reflected a distinctly early-modern and Perso-Shi'i practice of kingship.An immense building campaign, initiated in 1590-91 at the millennial threshold of the Islamic calendar (1000 A.H.), transformed Isfahan from a provincial, medieval, and largely Sunni city into an urban-centered representation of the first Imami Shi'i empire in the history of Islam. The historical process of Shi'ification of Safavid Iran and the deployment of the arts in situating the shifts in the politico-religious agenda of the imperial household informs Sussan Babaie's study of palatial architecture and urban environments of Isfahan and the earlier capitals of Tabriz and Qazvin.Babaie argues that since the Safavid claim presumed the inheritance both of the charisma of the Shi'i Imams and of the aura of royal splendor integral to ancient Persian notions of kingship, a ceremonial regime was gradually devised in which access and proximity to the shah assumed the contours of an institutionalized form of feasting. Talar-palaces, a new typology in Islamic palatial designs, and the urban-spatial articulation of access and proximity are the architectural anchors of this argument. Cast in the comparative light of urban spaces and palace complexes elsewhere and earlier-in the Timurid, Ottoman, and Mughal realms as well as in the early modern European capitals-Safavid Isfahan emerges as the epitome of a new architectural-urban paradigm in the early modern age.

Islamic Empires

Justin Marozzi
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Author : Justin Marozzi
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241199053

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'Outstanding, illuminating, compelling ... a riveting read' Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent. For centuries the caliphate was both ascendant on the battlefield and triumphant in the battle of ideas, its cities unrivalled powerhouses of artistic grandeur, commercial power, spiritual sanctity and forward-looking thinking. Islamic Empires is a history of this rich and diverse civilization told through its greatest cities over fifteen centuries, from the beginnings of Islam in Mecca in the seventh century to the astonishing rise of Doha in the twenty-first. It dwells on the most remarkable dynasties ever to lead the Muslim world - the Abbasids of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Damascus and Cordoba, the Merinids of Fez, the Ottomans of Istanbul, the Mughals of India and the Safavids of Isfahan - and some of the most charismatic leaders in Muslim history, from Saladin in Cairo and mighty Tamerlane of Samarkand to the poet-prince Babur in his mountain kingdom of Kabul and the irrepressible Maktoum dynasty of Dubai. It focuses on these fifteen cities at some of the defining moments in Islamic history: from the Prophet Mohammed receiving his divine revelations in Mecca and the First Crusade of 1099 to the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and the phenomenal creation of the merchant republic of Beirut in the nineteenth century.

The East India Company in Persia

Peter Good
The East India Company in Persia Book PDF

Author : Peter Good
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350152281

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The East India Company in Persia by Peter Good Pdf

In 1747, the city of Kerman in Persia burned amidst chaos, destruction and death perpetrated by the city's own overlord, Nader Shah. After the violent overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722 and subsequent foreign invasions from all sides, Persia had been in constant turmoil. One well-appointed house that belonged to the East India Company had been saved from destruction by the ingenuity of a Company servant, Danvers Graves, and his knowledge of the Company's privileges in Persia. This book explores the lived experience of the Company and its trade in Persia and how it interacted with power structures and the local environment in a time of great upheaval in Persian history. Using East India Company records and other sources, it charts the role of the Navy and commercial fleet in the Gulf, trade agreements, and the experience of Company staff, British and non-British living in and navigating conditions in 18th-century Persia. By examining the social, commercial and diplomatic history of this relationship, this book creates a new paradigm for the study of Early Modern interactions in the Indian Ocean.

Paradoxes of Green

Gareth Doherty
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Author : Gareth Doherty
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520285026

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Paradoxes of Green by Gareth Doherty Pdf

"This highly innovative book is a multidisciplinary study of green and its significance from multiple perspectives: aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social. It is centered on the Kingdom of Bahrain, the smallest and greenest of the Arab states in the Persian Gulf, where green has a long and deep history appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous--and a radical contrast to the hot, hostile desert. As is the case with cities around the world, green is often celebrated as a counter to gray urban environments, yet green has not always been good for cities. To have the color green manifested in arid environments is often in direct conflict with 'green' from an environmental point of view; this paradox is at the heart of the book. Given the resources required to maintain green in arid areas, including cities, the provision of green often bears significant environmental costs. In arid environments such as Bahrain, this contradiction becomes extreme and even unsustainable. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Gareth Doherty explores the landscapes of Bahrain where green represents a plethora of implicit human values and lives in dialectical tension with other culturally and environmentally significant colors and hues. The book's six chapters focus on: Blue, Red, Date-palm Green, Grass Green, Beige, and White. Implicit in his book is the argument that concepts of color and object are mutually defining and thus a discussion about green becomes a discussion about the creation of space and place"--

Shahjahanabad

Stephen P. Blake
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Author : Stephen P. Blake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521522994

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Shahjahanabad by Stephen P. Blake Pdf

A study of a pre-modern Indian city (Old Delhi) as a sovereign city.

Persian Documents

Kondo Nobuaki
Persian Documents Book PDF

Author : Kondo Nobuaki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134414444

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Persian Documents by Kondo Nobuaki Pdf

After the Mongol period, Persian was the official written language in Iran, Central Asia and India. A vast amount of documents relating to administration and social life were produced and yet, unlike Ottoman and Arabic documents, Persian historical resources have received very little critical attention. This book is the first to use Persian Documents as the sources of social history in Early Modern Iran and Central Asia. The contributors examine four distinct elements of the documents: * the formal aspects of the sources are initially inspected * the second part focuses on newly discovered sources * the most abundant documents of the period - waqf deeds - are individually studied In this way the reader is led to realize the importance of Persian documents in gaining an understanding of past urban and rural societies in the Middle East.

Re-imaging the City

Somaiyeh Falahat
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Author : Somaiyeh Falahat
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783658045968

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Re-imaging the City by Somaiyeh Falahat Pdf

Somaiyeh Falahat investigates the spatial and morphological logic of pre-modern Middle Eastern and North African cities, so-called “Islamic cities”. She bases her argument on the fact that the city and consequently its form and structure, similar to other human products, have deep roots in the thought-structure of the people. Thus, to know such places properly, one has to refer to this life-world and use it as a structure to observe the city. This approach aims at opening new levels of understanding of the city by grasping indigenous concepts and structures; it puts forward claims for the possibility of a new method of analysis. The author studies the historic city of Isfahan as the case study and suggests that an indigenous term, Hezar-Too, can explain the complexity of the city, which has been interpreted as labyrinthine and maze-like accounting for the essence of the city and its form in an appropriate way. Looking at the city from this new point of view can help in observing it in its context and subsequently in discovering its real character.

Abbas Kiarostami

Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa,Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Author : Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa,Jonathan Rosenbaum
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252050534

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Abbas Kiarostami by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa,Jonathan Rosenbaum Pdf

Before his death in 2016, Abbas Kiarostami wrote or directed more than thirty films in a career that mirrored Iranian cinema's rise as an international force. His 1997 feature Taste of Cherry made him the first Iranian filmmaker to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Critics' polls continue to place Close-Up (1990) and Through the Olive Trees (1994) among the masterpieces of world cinema. Yet Kiarostami's naturalistic impulses and winding complexity made him one of the most divisive--if influential--filmmakers of his time. In this expanded second edition, award-winning Iranian filmmaker Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum renew their illuminating cross-cultural dialogue on Kiarostami's work. The pair chart the filmmaker's late-in-life turn toward art galleries, museums, still photography, and installations. They also bring their distinct but complementary perspectives to a new conversation on the experimental film Shirin. Finally, Rosenbaum offers an essay on watching Kiarostami at home while Saeed-Vafa conducts a deeply personal interview with the director on his career and his final feature, Like Someone in Love.

Shah Abbas

Sholeh Quinn
Shah Abbas Book PDF

Author : Sholeh Quinn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780745688

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Shah Abbas by Sholeh Quinn Pdf

SHAH ʻABBAS (1571–1629) is the most well-known king of Iran’s Safavid dynasty (1501–1722), ruling at the height of its power and prestige. When Shah ‘Abbas came to power his country was in chaos. Yet within eleven years he had regained territory lost to his enemies, moved his capital city and begun a transformation of Iranian society. Few aspects of life were unaffected by his policies and the new capital he built, the spectacular Isfahan, is still referred to as nisf-i jahan, or “half the world”, by Iranians today. In this wide-ranging profile, Sholeh A. Quinn explores Shah ʻAbbas’s rise to power and his subsequent interactions with religious movements and artistic developments, reaching beyond the historical narrative to assess the true impact of the man and his politics. Thought provoking and comprehensive, this account is ideal for readers interested in uncovering the life and thoughts of a man who ruled during a period described by many as a golden age for the arts in Iran.