East and west of Zagros : travel, war and politics in Persia and Iraq 1913-1921 /
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C.J. Edmonds published articles in orientalist journals and co-authored with Taufiq Wahby A Kurdish-English dictionary (Oxford, 1966). He published his memoirs of Iraq, Kurds, Turks, and Arabs : politics, travel and research in North-Eastern Iraq, 1919-1925 (London - New York, 1957), but his Persian memoirs remained unpublished. It tells how, after studying oriental languages in Cambridge, he became Consular Officer in Bushire, participated in British campaigns in Mesopotamia during First World War. As a Political Officer in Luristan Edmonds was in charge of the oil fields' security and was sent to Northern Persia after the war, a direct witness of the Jangal upheaval and the 1921 coup d'Etat.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-338) and index. :
9789047426905 :
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The book of travels : kitāb al-siyāḥah /
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"Ḥannā Diyāb's account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again"--
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Title and statement of responsibility appear on pages.
Text and parallel translation of manuscript class marked 254, Sbath collection, Vatican Apostolic Library. :
2 v. ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781479810949
9781479892303
9781479806300
al-Durr al-munaẓẓam fī ziyārat al-Jabal al-Muqaṭṭam al-maʻrūf b"Murshid al-zuwwār ilá qubūr al-abrār" li-Muwaffaq al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUthmān al-Shāriʻī, al-mutawaffá (615 H/...
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16, 284 pages ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-257) and indexes. :
9782724709728
2724709721
Miṣbāḥ al-dayājī wa-ghawth al-rājī wa-kahf al-lājī mimmā jumiʻa lil-Imām al-Tājī li-Ibn ʻAyn al-Fuḍalāʼ, al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Nāsikh, al-mutawaffá baʻda 696 H/1297 M : nashrah naqdī...
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11, 327 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-288) and indexes. :
9782724707915
2724707915
Frédéric Cailliaud : les aventures d'un naturaliste en Egypte et au Soudan, 1815-1822 /
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Spine title : Les aventures d'un naturaliste en Egypte et au Soudan : Frederic Cailliaud. :
371 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm. :
Bibliography : pages 363-365. :
2867230342 :
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