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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Seventeen tales based on the classic, The Thousand and One Nights, but full of modern messages. In recounting his adventures, Sinbad-the-Sailor observes it is wrong to be a prisoner of tradition. The book's Egyptian author was recently the object of an assassination attempt by fundamentalists.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"A myth-shattering view of the medieval Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations, which preceded-and enabled-the European Renaissance. The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance. Inspired by the Koranic injunction...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When Jouha counts the ten donkeys carrying his dates to market, he repeatedly forgets to count the one he is riding on, causing him great consternation. Includes numbers written out in Arabic and in English transliteration, as well as the numerals one through ten, and a note on the origins and other versions of the story.
12) Disney's Aladdin
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the adventures of Aladdin, who, with the aid of a genie from a magic lamp, fights an evil sorcerer and wins the hand of a beautiful princess.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
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IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During his twenty years as a merchant adventurer, Sindbad encounters a Rookh's egg, a huge valley of diamonds, streams of amber, a terrifying sea-monster, an ogre's feast, the Cave of the Dead, and the Old Man of the Sea. This is a retelling of Sinbad's seven voyages from the Arabian Nights.
Author
Language
English
Description
Seven Pillars of Wisdom - A Triumph is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British soldier T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia ) while serving with rebel forces during the Arabian Revolt against the Ottoman Turks. The extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title popularised by the 1962 film based...
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