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The author of this history, known in Europe simply as Abulfeda, was born in Damascus in 1273. He was related to the Ayubid clan, chiefly known for its most illustrious member, Saladin.The present...

"My recollections of the country are ones that I shall always treasure, in spite of the dangers and sickness, in spite of long marches and days in prison, the Yemen will always be for me, Arabic...

The 'pilgrimage' alluded to in the title of this work describes a five-month journey undertaken by an Englishwoman, in 1878, to the great central desert region of Arabia. That a woman should venture...

'Saracen' was a name employed by medieval writers to describe the Muslims of Syria and Palestine, and the Arab rulers of North Africa generally - especially those conquerors of Spain and Sicily, and...

A splendid narrative of the author's encounters with the Moslem community in Tripoli and its hinterland during his medical mission in 1912, set up to aid the Moslem casualties of the Italian...

When originally published in 1890, Arabic Authors revealed first revealed the wealth of literary, traditional and historical writings in a text understood by the general reader. The passage of years...

Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1817) was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1806 he first travelled to Africa with an expedition that aimed to explore the continent's inland. Three years later, he was...

In 1856 Dr Nathan Davis, whose other works include A Voice from North Africa (1844), began his excavation of the site of Carthage, fabled North African city of Dido, 'fugitive princess of Tyre'...

A biting satire about Gaddafi's Libya and a stark portrait of the individual lives lost within it.Author: Mansour BushnafPublisher: Darf PublishersPublication Date: Oct 03, 2017Number of Pages: 120...

First published in 1881, East of the Jordan recounts the results of an archaeological expedition organised by the American Palestine Exploration Society in 1875-77. In two years the expedition...

A darkly satirical portrayal of the outbreak of Ebola in 1970s Congo and Sudan. Humorous and tragic in turns, the narrative weaves its way from the graveyards of Kinshasa to the factories, brothels...

Khamila narrates her experience as a young woman living in Sur, a city which quickly transforms from a rich trading centre into a place of fear and murder at the hands of extremist oppressors.Home to...

General Charles Gordon (1833-85) remains one of the most enigmatic figures in British military history. His brilliant feats of leadership, first in the Crimea, then in China, where he saved the...

Collection of short stories which guide us through the turbulence of Egyptian modern history.Author: Anne-Marie DrossoPublisher: Darf PublishersPublication Date: Aug 07, 2018Number of Pages: 144...

Ibn Battuta, the greatest of all the medieval travellers, was in Tangier in 1304. At the age of nineteen he set out on his travels that were eventually to take him over 75,000 miles through all of...

The French takeover of Algeria represented a triumph of order over anarchy, of reason over emotion. This is thecontroversial view put forward by the author of In the Desert: The Hinterland of...

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the publication of many books promoting evangelical Christian missionary work in Muslim countries, particularly in Africa, Asia and the Far East...

What later became known as the 'Tripoli Enterprise' describes the Italian conquest and occupation of North Africa. The 'Enterprise' aimed at acquiring Tripoli and Cyrenaica from the Turks, partly in...

A short memoir that discusses the forgotten Jewish community of Libya.Author: Rafa'il Luzun, Raphael N. LuzonPublisher: Darf PublishersPublication Date: Apr 11, 2017Number of Pages: 120...

Washington Irving was the first American man of letters to receive international recognition. He in fact spent almost a third of his life in Europe, including several years in Spain attached to the...

Washington Irving was the first American man of letters to receive international recognition. He in fact spent almost a third of his life in Europe, including several years in Spain attached to the...

Abu Mohammed Al-Qasim Ali, known as Al Hariri of Basra was an eleventh-century Arab merchant, grammarian and writer, who continued and developed a literary genre initiated by the Great Hamadhani.The...

Edward William Lane (1801-1876), Arabic scholar, first went to Egypt in 1825 for the sake of his health. He made several voyages up the Nile and came to speak Arabic fluently, even adopting Egyptian...

This book first gained popular success during the 1880s when a blossoming public awareness followed upon the heels of Victorian expansionism. Coincidental with this came the spread of education...

Reinhart Dozy was born at Leyden in the Netherlands in 1820 and at an early age showed a great thirst for knowledge couple with a precocious scholarly acumen. At the age of twenty-five he published...

A young woman goes on a perilous journey in search of her absent father. What ensues is a Freudian adult fairytale in this exciting debut by young Swiss author Michelle Steinbeck. A child attacks...

John Alfred Gray was a practising London doctor in 1888 when he was approached by Sir Salter Payne who had returned from Kabul on the orders of the Amir to procure an English surgeon. During...

Full Title - Narrative of a Ten Years Residence at Tripoli in Africa - From the Original Correspondence in the Possession of the Family of the Late Richard Tully, Esq.Nothing can be more curious than...

In this informative volume, first published in 1833, the author brings together a wealth of fascinating detail on every aspect of life as it them was Nubia (now part of Sudan) and Abyssinia...

First published in 1895, Palmyra and Zenobia tells of the author's travels on horseback throughout the region of the Middle East centring on the oasis of Palmyra.Though largely a narrative of the...