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2-7242-4133-9. Samarkand ( French: Samarcande ), written by French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, is a 1988 historical fiction novel that revolves around the 11th-century Persian poet Omar Khayyám and his poetry collection Rubaiyat. The novel received the Prix Maison de la Presse. [ 1]
The Golem's Eye. The Amulet of Samarkand is a children's novel of alternate history, fantasy and magic. [ 1] It is the first book in the Bartimaeus Sequence written by English author Jonathan Stroud. The first edition (paperback) was published in September 2003 by Doubleday in the United Kingdom. The book and series are about power struggles in ...
Bartimaeus Sequence. The Bartimaeus Sequence[ 1] is a series of young adult novels of alternate history, fantasy and magic. It was written by British writer Jonathan Stroud and consists of a trilogy published from 2003 to 2005 and a prequel novel published in 2010. The story follows the career of a teenage magician Nathaniel (aka John Mandrake ...
Isabella Canales, a 29-year-old living in suburban Dallas, has been deeply stressed about money this year. Though she and her husband have a household income of nearly $9,000 per month pre-tax ...
Derek Jeter is looking back on the first time he ever appeared on a trading card — and why he's "still not happy" about it to this day.. While speaking to PEOPLE about the launch of the Arena ...
410. Murder in Samarkand (published in the US under the title Dirty Diplomacy) is a non-fiction book by Scottish activist and former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. The book [1] forms an account of his period as the British ambassador in Tashkent in 2002–2004. In the work, Murray recounts his condemnation of human rights violations ...
Samarkand or Samarqand ( / ˈsæmərkænd / SAM-ər-kand; Uzbek and Tajik: Самарқанд / Samarqand, pronounced [sæmærqænd, -ænt]; ) is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. Samarqand is the capital of Samarqand Region and a district-level city, that includes the urban ...
The Samarkand Kufic Quran (also known as the Uthman Quran, Samarkand codex, Samarkand manuscript and Tashkent Quran) is an 8th or 9th century manuscript Quran written in the territory of modern Iraq in the Kufic script, where it was later taken by Tamerlane to Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan). Today it is kept in the Hast Imam library, in ...