The lanterns of the king of Galilee / Ibrahim Nasrallah ; translated by Nancy Roberts.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Series: Modern Arabic literature: Publisher: Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: xii, 550 pages : map ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9774166663; 9789774166662Uniform titles: قناديل ملك الجليل. English Uniform titles: Qanādīl malik al-Jalīl. English Subject(s): Ẓāhir al-ʻUmar, active 1750-1775 -- Fiction | Ẓāhir al-ʻUmar, active 1750-1775 | Ẓāhir al-ʻUmar, active 1750-1775 -- Fiction | Palestine -- Fiction | Galilee (Israel) -- Fiction | Israel -- Galilee | Middle East -- PalestineGenre/Form: Arabic fiction -- 21st century. | Arabic fiction -- Palestine. | Fiction.DDC classification: 892.7/3 LOC classification: PJ7852.A688 | Q2613 2014Summary: 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.
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"A novel of 18th-century Palestine"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-550).
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.
Originally published: Beirut : Arab Scientific Publishers, 2012, under title: Qanādīl malik al-Jalīl.
Translated from the Arabic.
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