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Byzantium and the Arabs. The Encounter of Civilizations from Sixth to Mid-Eighth Century – ebook
Teresa Wolińska Paweł Filipczak
This book is an attempt at a reconstruction of complex relations between Byzantium and the Arabs from the sixth to the eighth century. It discusses the religious and political situation in the Middle East on the eve of the Arab conquest, characterises the attitude adopted by the inhabitants of Byzantine provinces toward the Arab invaders, analyses the administrative structures of Byzantium and the...Data dostępności:
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The Sacred Fount – ebook
Henry James
The book is about history, but not the one that is written in dry letters in the textbook, but the one into which the time machine takes you and lets you live the days, months in the body of another person, a contemporary of the time you are reading about. It is about religion, but not about what they preach in churches, without the right to question, but about its origins, causes, development, problems,...Data dostępności:
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By Airship to Ophir – ebook
Fenton Ash
Dated 1928. „By Airship to Ophir”, written by Fenton Ash, tells the story of an airship and two aircraft meander round central Africa picking up an assortment of natives in a search for the fabled land of Ophir, which is eventually reached and found to be inhabited by a race of people of Arab/Hebrew mien. This fantasy adventure would suit anyone interested in old fantasy novels for children and young...Data dostępności:
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The Tragedy of the „Korosko” – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
Ten tourists from England, Ireland, America and France, six men and four women are on a vacation trip down the Nile in 1895. Without warning they are captured by Islamic terrorists, and the possibility of rescue becomes more remote with each passing day. Their choice is a stark one: either convert to Islam and become slaves for the rest of their lives or die. In this story, the reader is swept out...Data dostępności:
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Israel an American Catastrophe – ebook
Stash Pruszynski
“ Of all people, the Jews should know what may happen when a nation feels it has been wronged and starts looking for a scapegoat.” The author of these words, a former Canadian newspaper reporter, Stash Pruszynski argues passionately that the Diaspora Jews, who for years have supported the only remaining apartheid state on earth, should cut their ties with Israel before it’s too late. For...Data dostępności:
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Al-Gahiz and his theory of social communication – ebook
Krystyna Skarżyńska-Bocheńska
Al-Ğāhiz, an Arabic scientist of the 9th century, belongs to the thinkers whose participation in and contribution to the development of the world science has not been recognized and appreciated. The great erudite and author of numerous works in various areas formulated, among others, the theory of social communication which may be compared to the late 20th century Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of...Data dostępności:
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