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Book/Printed MaterialThe preaching of Islam; a history of the propagation of the Muslim faith, The Preaching of Islam: A History of the Propagation of the Muslim Faith is an important early work by the British Orientalist and historian of Islamic art Sir Thomas Walker Arnold (1864-1930). Arnold was born in Devonport, Devon, England, and graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1888 he moved to British India, where he taught philosophy at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College (present-day Aligarh Muslim...
- Contributor: Arnold, Thomas Walker
- Date: 1913
- Resource: - 482 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialFlora Arabica. Flora Arabica is a botanical catalog of the plants of the Arabia. The work is in six volumes covering the whole of the Arabian Peninsula: the extra-tropical west, the tropical west, the tropical east, and the extra-tropical east including the Persian Gulf region. The catalog is by Father Ethelbert Blatter, and is largely based on the herbaria of the British Museum, which itself contained...
- Contributor: Blatter, Ethelbert
- Date: 1919
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Book/Printed MaterialModern geography. A description of the empires, kingdoms, states, and colonies; with the oceans, seas, and isles; in all parts of the world: including the most recent discoveries, and political alterations: Digested ... "Catalogue of maps, and of books of voyages and travels": v. 2, p. 792-802. Vols. 1 and 2 have supplements containing corrections and additions 1817.
- Contributor: Pond, John - Pinkerton, John - Nicolle De La Croix
- Date: 1811
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Book/Printed MaterialTwo trips to gorilla land and the cataracts of the Congo. Includes bibliographical references.
- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
- Date: 1876
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Book/Printed MaterialUnexplored Syria. Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl el Safá, the Anti-Libanus, the northern Libanus, and the 'Aláh.
- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis - Drake, Charles F. Tyrwhitt (Charles Frederick Tyrwhitt)
- Date: 1872
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Book/Printed MaterialThe inner life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land.
- Contributor: Burton, Isabel
- Date: 1875