10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MINARETED»
Discover the use of
minareted in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
minareted and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The name — meaning "double-minareted" — ' — derives from the most
conspicuous feature of the seminary, two thirty-metre- m high towers curiously
devoid of a balcony for the muezzin to sound the call to c/> prayer. There is some
dispute ...
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Across the Sleeping Land
been pushed out into the outskirts of town, as a small green and white striped
single—minareted mosque stands side by side with the red bricked tent of the
Catholic Church, whose modernist bell tower holds aloft a simple four ended
cross, ...
3
The King and the Countess, a romance
... and to which none were privy but themselves. Esme was sufficiently
acquainted with the state of the province to feel very anxious for the safety of
Corinna; and, as night came on, was glad to rein up at a large minareted building
, which,froui ...
Stephen Watson Fullom, 1849
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A Woman in Jerusalem: A Passion in Three Parts
–that curved gently to meet the silhouette ofa domed and minareted mosque. The
solemn music had become trapped in a frightful dissonance from which itwas
struggling to escape.As thelittleradio, in turn, struggledto transmitthis,heguessed
...
A. B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin, 2013
When they again came to the surface, BerthaKircher saw that they were in a large
lagoon and that the bright starswere shining high above them, while on
eitherhand domed and minareted buildings were silhouetted sharply againstthe
starlit ...
Edgar Rice Burroughs, 2013
6
The Lute Player: A Novel of Richard the Lionhearted
fter the taking of Acre the ladies were moved from their wretched lodging by the
harbor into a small white palace beside the blue-minareted mosque in, the center
of the town. Hubert Walter found time to make a formal visit to the Queen, whom ...
7
The Forever Street: A Novel
Volts were to flow through the 17th District, no less than through Bosnia-
Herzegovina; soon they were to shine from the minareted lampposts of Turk
Place. But Berek refused to let municipal electricians install the central fuse box
underneath ...
Nepchun Kinlaw's congregation was as dear to them as was ever minareted
mosque to Moslem, or cloister to Monk. Here, during the warm weather, when the
more pretentious clapboard church became unbearably hot, they assembled two
or ...
It had three tall towers, all minareted, and two shorter ones standing guard over
the portcullis, which had a spiked iron gate ready to crash shut, and, of course, a
drawbridge wide enough to accommodate mounted chargers three abreast.
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Almost Chosen People: Oblique Biographies in the American Grain
... pay for itself as a promotion.61 Rather than resenting or resisting the
absorption of his personal residence into his public representation, Barnum
abetted it, by reproducing the minareted pleasure dome of Iranistan on his
business stationery.
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MINARETED»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
minareted is used in the context of the following news items.
The missing cannon in Abu Dhabi's Al Ittihad Square
... Center Mall, but it also housed its first bus station, clock tower and one of the city's most elaborate mosques, the many-minareted Al Fahimi. «The National, Dec 14»
NATO Reinvents Itself as Russian Bear Awakens
HOHENFELS, Germany – The minareted fake village used for counter-insurgency combat training stood on the sidelines as American tanks ... «NBCNews.com, May 14»
Painfully honest, artful homage to wife's death
Shah Jahan built the minareted tomb for his third wife when she died after delivering their 14th child; Barnes, who is uxorious — as he points ... «The Japan Times, Apr 13»
A mega mosque in a suburb that was 90 per cent white 30 years ago …
... enormous minareted mosque in a sedate London suburb among thousands of men in Pashtun dress listening to the words of an elderly man. «Daily Mail, Mar 13»
The Mahals of Chepauk
Khalsa Mahal was a two-storied building with two handsome, minareted entrances in the south and the west. Humayun Mahal was a single ... «The Hindu, Feb 13»
Robert Fisk: 'Rebel army? They're a gang of foreigners'
... a place of museums and Mosques – the magnificently minareted Gemaya Omayyad stands beside yesterday's battleground – is a matter of ... «The Independent, Aug 12»
