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The lanterns of the king of Galilee / Ibrahim Nasrallah ; translated by Nancy Roberts.
Van Pelt Library PJ7852.A688 Q2613 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naṣr Allāh, Ibrāhīm, author.
- Series:
- Modern Arabic literature
- Standardized Title:
- Qanādīl malik al-Jalīl. English
- قناديل ملك الجليل. English
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ẓāhir al-ʻUmar, active 1750-1775.
- Ẓāhir al-ʻUmar, active 1750-1775--Fiction.
- Ẓāhir al-ʻUmar.
- Palestine--Fiction.
- Palestine.
- Galilee (Israel)--Fiction.
- Galilee (Israel).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Arabic fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 550 pages : map ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Lanterns of the king of Galilee : a novel of 18th-century Palestine
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Arabic.
- Summary:
- In eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee's Lake Tiberias, visionary political and military leader Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani undertakes a journey toward the greatest aim anyone could hope to achieve in his day: the establishment of an autonomous Arab state. To do so he must challenge the rule of the greatest power in the world at the time- the Ottoman Empire -while translating the ideals of human dignity, justice, and religious tolerance into concrete daily realities--Back cover.
- Notes:
- "A novel of 18th-century Palestine"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-550).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel P. Orlando Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9774166663
- 9789774166662
- OCLC:
- 878299477
- Publisher Number:
- 99965173911
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