10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KURBASH»
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kurbash in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Egypt from the Napoleonic Wars Down to Cromer and Allenby
The kurbash or hippopotamus hide whip had been the main instrument of
Egyptian administration since the days when Pharaoh and the hippopotamus
ruled the Nile. Whenever anything was wanted — recruits for the army, evidence
by ...
2
The Warm Heart of Africa
Chapter. 31. The. Sting. of. the. Kurbash. Malawi toddled toward maturity but not
without growing pains. In the early days of Independence, several Cabinet
members had resigned, loudly protesting Dr. Banda's dictatorial ways. They had
gotten ...
3
Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology
He contrasts this easy relationship with what he had seen at Luxor and Karnak,
where men and children were lashed with the kurbash by their overseers. "
Mafeesh kurbash, shoghul mafeesh" ("Without the kurbash, there's no work"), he
was ...
4
Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt:
night, you shall bring the king to Egypt to the place where Pharaoh is: a beating
with a kurbash shall be given him, five hundred blows, in public, before Pharaoh,
then you shall take him back to the land of the Negroes, all in six hours of time, ...
Gaston Maspero, Hasan M. El-Shamy, 2002
5
The Limits of Secular Criticism: World Literature at the ...
Gone is the kurbash, that used to blister the soles of the fellaheen's feet until they
had disgorged their last piece of hidden silver or wearied the tax-gatherer's arm.
69 Not only do Chirol's remarks appeal to those incidents that “jump to the eye,” ...
6
Conscription in the Napoleonic Era: A Revolution in Military ...
27 He noted 500 strokes of the kurbash for insubordination, whilean attempt at
desertion netted 1,000. Atraditional Egyptian implement for punishment, the
kurbash was, accordingto a British traveler,“a whip capable of inflicting
punishment ...
Donald Stoker, Frederick C. Schneid, Harold D. Blanton, 2008
He answered, “I want eight hundreds blows with the kurbash.” The sultan said, “
My man, think of something else!” He said,“No, I want eight hundred blows with
the kurbash.” When they were going to give him the eight hundred lashes, he
cried, ...
8
The Damascus Affair: 'Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews ...
Floggings, beatings, the kurbash, and the bastinado were part and parcel of the
administrative system. It was not the least unusual to hear of people being beaten
to death in an effort, for example, to extract taxes or to discover runaway recruits.
9
Whipping, Including: John Brady (Showman), Latigo Y Daga, ...
We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book contains chapters focused on Whipping, Whips, and Whip arts.
10
Concise English Dictionary
"national language', a form of Mandarin taught all over China. kurbash, kourbash
kdlir'hash, n. a hide whip used in the East. — v.t. to whip with a kurbash. (Ar.
qurbash.\ kurchatovium Hi' i h» tffvl WW. n. element I ()4 named by Russians (
who ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KURBASH»
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Three recent theories of “kibosh”
His etymon of kibosh is kurbash “a long whip made of hippopotamus or rhinoceros hide used as an instrument of punishment in parts of the ... «OUPblog, Aug 13»
