The lanterns of the king of Galilee /
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 chall...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
[2014]
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 550 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-550). |
| ISBN: | 9774166663 9789774166662 |