A splendid narrative of the author's encounters with the Moslem community in Tripoli and its hint...

Ibn Battuta, the greatest of all the medieval travellers, was in Tangier in 1304. At the age of n...

A book more interesting in its subject,or more satisfactory in its execution, is seldom issued fr...

After the fall of Khartum in January 1885, various attempts were from time to time made to effect...

Abu Mohammed Al-Qasim Ali, known as Al Hariri of Basra was an eleventh-century Arab merchant, gra...

On the 1st January 1900 the British Nation assumed the responsibility of governing the inhabitant...

Kitab al-izah fi'ilm al-nikah b-it-tamam w-al-kamal : literally translated from the Arabic, with ...

Of all those admirable and doughty Victorian lady-travellers Miss Amelia Edwards is surely one of...

Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1817) was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1806 he first travelle...

'In writing his Introduction to the Arabic language I do no pretend to have performed a work of g...

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The Hill of the Graces, first published in 1897, is based upon the results of archaeological expl...