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Richards, Warren Schultz and Hannah Taragan. With contributions by Reuven Aharoni, Reuven Amitai, Frederic Bauden, Jonathan Berkey, Daniel Crecelius, Joseph Drory, Jane Hathaway, Robert Irwin, Donald Little, Nimrod Luz, Carl Petry, Thomas Philipp, Yossef Rapoport, André Raymond, Donald S. The last part of the volume describes the Mamluk military class that survived in Egypt (although in a transformed form) under the Ottoman suzerainty after the Empire annexed Egypt and Syria in 1517. There are special articles about Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Safed and Acre. It was a Sunni orthodox state that had a formidable military, a developed and sophisticated economy, a centralized Arab bureaucracy and prestigious religious and educational institutions. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, the studies discuss central political, military, urban, social, administrative, economic, financial and religious aspects of the Mamluk Empire that was established in 1250 by Mamluks (manumitted military slaves, mostly Turks and Circassians). This volume consists of 19 studies by leading historians of the Mamluks.
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Derek manages to access Jamie's dressing room at the office, and gives her a box of candy, apologizing for his pestering calls. Initially, Jamie dismisses them as harmless flattery from an "admirer," until Derek retrieves her phone number and begins calling her house in the Hollywood Hills, as well as that of her neighbor, a fashion model named Robin. Jamie begins receiving anonymous phone calls and flowers from a man named Derek, a psychotic photographer who is obsessed with her. Jamie Douglas is a beautiful, successful news writer and anchor in Los Angeles, in a stable relationship with her long-term boyfriend, Brandon. Reviews for the film have mainly been negative which resulted in three Razzie nominations, including two for Fairchild. The original music score was composed by Lalo Schifrin. Its plot follows a Los Angeles news anchor who is aggressively pursued by an obsessive male stalker. The Seduction is a 1982 American thriller film written and directed by David Schmoeller, and starring Morgan Fairchild, Michael Sarrazin, Vince Edwards, and Andrew Stevens.
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Eric by terry pratchett5/31/2023 It’s still fresh and funny and fast paced and so damn entertaining. I’m delighted to say that my impressions of the novel haven’t changed in 16 years and that I still loved reading this. I mean, when have wishes ever gone wrong for anybody in a story, especially one with “Faust” crossed out on the cover? The three wishes Eric asks for - To be Ruler of the World To Meet the Most Beautiful Woman in All History and To Live Forever, should be easy to arrange. Except the “demon” is Rincewind, the Disc’s most inept wizzard (the second z is intentional as Rincewind can’t spell), who happens to have gotten stuck in the Dungeon Dimensions and, by chance, wound up in a teenage boy’s bedroom. Coming to a beloved book after 16 years is great as you know you’ll like it and you’ve all but forgotten everything in the story.Įric is the Disc’s first demonologist hacker who summons a demon to grant him three wishes. So, going through a dry spell in reading where everything I picked up seemed to, well, suck, I was immediately drawn to a small paperback that’d fallen off my shelf - “Eric”, a book I haven’t read since I was 12 (I’m now 28). Like a lot of people I first read Pratchett when I was a teenager and have stuck with him well into adulthood. “‘Multiple exclamation marks,’ he went on, shaking his head ‘are a sure sign of a diseased mind.’” |