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  • The Gulistan

    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • On Love and Youth: Three Translations of Sa'di

    by Sa'di ...
    Many of the stories in On Love and Youth, the fifth chapter of Sa'di's Gulistan, involve love affairs between men and youths: masters with slaves, princes with youthful subjects, teachers with schoolboys, and other variations. In most cases, the context of the relationship suggests that the youth is an adolescent or young man. For quite some time, readers in the English-speaking world had no idea ... Read more

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  • Nakba

    Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory

    Edited by Lila Abu-Lughod, Ahmad Sa'di ...
    Series series Cultures of History
    For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the iniquities of the present are experienced as a continuous replay of the injustice of the past.By focusing on memories of the Nakba or "catastrophe" of 1948, in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were ... Read more

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  • Persian Literature: The Sháh Námeh, The Rubáiyát, The Divan, And The Gulistan

    Anthology of classic Persian (Iranian) literature, including The Shah Nameh by Firdusi (translationed by James Atkinson), The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam (translated by Edward Fitzgerald), The Divan by Hafiz (translated by H. Bicknell, and The Gulistan by Sa'di (translated by James Ross). Both volumes in a single file. ... Read more

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  • The Gulistan of Sa'di

    The "Rose Garden"

    by Sa'di ...
    Translated by James Ross ...
    This masterpiece of Persian literature is a fascinating glimpse into the origins of one of the world's most venerable cultural traditions. Penned by one of the foremost Persian thinkers of the early medieval era, The Gulistan of Sa'di is a whirlwind tour through the political and intellectual issues of the period, ranging from advice for rulers to debates over different religious practices. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Decolonizing the Study of Palestine

    Indigenous Perspectives and Settler Colonialism after Elia Zureik

    Edited by Ahmad H. Sa'di, Nur Masalha ...
    Writing about Palestine and the Palestinians continue to be controversial. Until the late 1980s, the question of Palestine was approached through Western social theories that had appeared after World War 2. This endowed European settlers and colonists the mission of guiding the "backward" natives of Palestine to modernity. However, since the work of Palestinian scholar Elia Zureik, the study of ... Read more

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  • Thorough surveillance

    The genesis of Israeli policies of population management, surveillance and political control towards the Palestinian minority

    by Ahmad Sa'di ...
    Widely regarded as expert in techniques of surveillance and political control, Israel has been successful in controlling a native population for a long time. Despite tremendous challenges, it has maintained a tight grip over a large Palestinian population in the territories it occupied in the 1967 war. Moreover, it has effectively contained the Palestinian minority inside its 1948 borders. ... Read more

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  • The Gulistan

    by Sa'di ...
    "The Gulistan," meaning "The Rose Garden," is a timeless Persian literary masterpiece penned by the 13th-century poet and writer Saadi Shirazi. This collection of prose and poetry presents a rich tapestry of moral teachings, wisdom, and insightful anecdotes. Divided into eight chapters, or "Gates," it covers various aspects of human life, offering guidance on ethics, justice, love, and ... Read more

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  • How To Achieve Happiness

    This booklet has a pure focus on life, happiness and teaching of Islam. Its major goal is to create a bridge connection between the people’s life and mode of happiness. The writer “Shaikh Abdur-Rahman bin Nasir bin Abdullah As-Sa‘di” is renowned religious scholar with connoisseur hold on Arabic. He tries to to clarify blazing misunderstanding in the luminosity of Quran verses and Hadith of Prophet ... Read more

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  • The Discontented Dervishes

    And Other Persian Tales

    by Sa'Di ...
    Arthur Scholey has selected and retold 74 of Sa'di's stories of the wisdom, humour and common sense of the kings, servants, lords, slaves and beggars, pupils and teachers, birds, beasts, insects and dervishes. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    The following text has been drawn from Sir Richard Burton's exhaustive translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night", more commonly known as "The Arabian Nights". The story of Aladdin, likely the most famous of all the tales of "The Arabian Nights", is the story of a poor young boy who is recruited by the sorcerer Maghreb to retrieve a wonderful oil lamp from a booby-trapped magic ... Read more

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