“But in the end it was the eunuch Kāfūr, the slave of their father, who held the strongest political hand over the country.” P. Utah Inv. 1383 Cairo, abt 954 CE paper Arabic papyrologist Naïm Vanthieghem has added a paper to Academia.edu, publishing an Arabic paper fragment held in...
تاريخ راشد افندي تاريخ راشد قسطنطنية : ابراهيم من متفرقه كان The first Turkish printing house was established in Istanbul on December 14, 1727. The director of the press was Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674-1745), a Hungarian convert to Islam. In 1726 Muteferrika sent a report on the efficiency of...
“Mrs. Delany’s was an age when genteel women, whether amateur or professional, were occupied with crafts, decorative works, design and fine arts. Embroidery, quilling, shellwork, japanning, silhouette making, drawing, painting in oils and watercolours, knitting, sewing, flower making, modelling in wax and clay, miniature painting,...
