10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DERVISH»
Discover the use of
dervish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dervish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Hayat Shah was captivated by Mina long before he met her: his mother's beautiful, brilliant friend is a family legend.
Death and the Dervish is a first-person narrative told from the point of view of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish at a Sarajevo monastery in the eighteenth century during the Turkish occupation.
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American Dervish: A Novel
This is an intimate, personal first novel that will stay with readers long after they turn the last page.
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Memoirs of a
Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties
But political violence, torture, rock music, drugs, nightmares, Oxbridge intellectuals and first love and its loss are all part of this strange story from the 1960s.
Winner of the 2000 Gival Press Poetry Award. This rich whirl of the dervish traverses a grand expanse from bars to crazy dreams to fruition of desire. "By Jove, these poems shimmer."--Gerry Gomez Pearlberg
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Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling
Dervish
Masquerading as the aunt of an inept CIA agent in order to keep an eye on him, Mrs. Pollifax sees her mission go up in smoke when the informants the agent is after begin to turn up murdered
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Dervish: The Rise and Fall of an African Empire
'Dervish' is the vivid and colorful story of one of the more remarkable episodes in the 'high Empire' period of British history.
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The Sword and the Rose: A Swiss-American
Dervish in Egypt
An unplanned adventure finds Tara Sufiana amidst the Sufis of Egypt for five years.
Meanwhile the AI is using Dervish's body as a base to visit AR, and hanging out in the gambling casinos of the Lowdown Hong Kong mound. This is where Goku of a Japanese law-enforcement agency, comes in.
THE DERVISH HOUSE is the story of the families that live in and around its titular house, it is at once a rich mosaic of Islamic life in the new century and a telling novel of future possibilities.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DERVISH»
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dervish is used in the context of the following news items.
Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Iain Duncan Smith head cheerleader as …
Dance like a dervish on the Cabinet table? Yes, after all the leaks, the Chancellor still had a rabbit to uncage – and in a reversal of the animal ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
Flynn Center reveals next season's schedule
7:30 p.m. March 17, the Flynn regularly hosts a St. Patrick's Day concert, and this season is no exception when the Irish group Dervish performs ... «BurlingtonFreePress.com, Jul 15»
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... to university students and enjoys holding their millennial attention spans by jumping on tables and sweeping around like a whirling dervish. «Nooga.com, Jul 15»
Reviving the tradition of leisurely Sunday dinners
It's actually an ideal way to entertain, despite the cleaning dervish I throw myself into before the arrival of houseguests. I'm thinking long, lazy ... «TBO.com, Jul 15»
My solar impulse to charge the power company
So our solar panels are impotent in the meantime and I'm reduced to watching our present electricity meter spinning like a whirling dervish, ... «Timaru Herald, Jul 15»
Crafting Rumi's universal messages
... of the space, the resin sculpture “Dawn Breeze,” 105x85 cm, appears to embody a more conventional depiction of a whirling dervish. «The Daily Star, Jul 15»
Saracen beats production expectations
... production from its Carosue Dam gold mine, in Western Australia, and successfully completed the Whirling Dervish openpit operation. «Creamer Media's Mining Weekly, Jul 15»
Network Rail begins Gidea Park station upgrade for Crossrail
Havering Council cabinet member for regulatory services councillor Osman Dervish said: "This is the first step in bringing Crossrail to the ... «Railway Technology, Jul 15»
Alevis hold religious ceremony in Hacı Bektaş dervish convent after …
A religious service was held at an Alevi house of worship which has been turned into museum, the Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli dervish convent, for the ... «Hurriyet Daily News, Jul 15»
POLITICS > 'Islamic monasteries won't be reopened'
The government has no plans to reopen “tekkes and zaviyes,” Islamic dervish lodges and monasteries closed in the early years of the republic, ... «Hurriyet Daily News, Jul 15»
