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  Abandon (Vintage Contemporaries)

  by Pico Iyer

  Pico Iyer’s intoxicating new novel is at once a stylish intellectual mystery and a pulse-quickening love story—the love in question being at once sacred and profane. John Macmillan, a classically reticent Englishman who has moved to California to study the poems of the Sufi mystic Rumi, unexpectedly becomes involved in two equally absorbing quests. The first is for a mysterious Rumi manuscript that may have been... (more)
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  The Gabriel Hounds

  by Mary Stewart

  It's all a grand adventure when Christy Mansel unexpectedly runs into her cousin Charles in Damascus. And being young, rich, impetuous, and used to doing whatever they please, they decide to barge in uninvited on their eccentric Great-Aunt Harriet—despite a long-standing family rule strictly forbidding unannounced visits. A strange new world awaits Charles and Christy beyond the gates of Dar Ibrahim—"Lady... (more)
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  The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith in Damascus

  by Stephanie Saldana

  A gorgeous, romantic memoir of a young woman's year in Damascus, where she studied the Muslim Jesus, fled to an ancient desert monastery to heal her past, and unexpectedly found herself in love with a French novice monk. In 2004, twenty-seven-year-old Stephanie Saldaña traveled to Damascus, Syria, on a Fulbright fellowship to study the role of the prophet Jesus in Islam. She was also fleeing a broken heart. It... (more)
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  Following Marco Polo's Silk Road

  by Brian Lawrenson

  Following Marco Polo’s Silk Road is Brian and Jill Lawrenson’s personal account of their adventure-filled journey as they pursue the historical legend and the mythic hero Marco Polo. Beginning in Italy, Marco Polo’s point of origin, they embark on a sometimes light-hearted, sometimes perilous journey along the celebrated Silk Road, named for the series of trade routes used to connect China to the Mediterranean... (more)
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  In Pursuit of Abraham

  by Francine Fuqua

  When German soldiers force Dr. Georges Moncel from his position as a distinguished university president in France, he begins to research and write a historical novel-one that ultimately incites the suspicion and wrath of the SS. In 1943, against the adamant wishes of his wife Suzanne, Moncel escapes France with the help of the French Resistance and travels to the Middle East. In order to complete his... (more)
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  The Flowers of Evil

  by Simon Acland

  "The Flowers of Evil" continues the adventures of Hugh de Verdon, the crusader knight introduced in "The Waste Land". It takes up his story in the early years of the twelfth century, a turbulent period when the victorious First Crusaders fought to hold on to the lands they had won in Outremer. Unfinished business from "The Waste Land" takes Hugh on a journey of vengeance and fulfilment to Aleppo, Damascus, Petra... (more)
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  Die Tore von Damaskus. Eine arabische Reise.

  by Lieve Joris

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  The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Ummayad Visual Culture (Islamic History and Civilization)

  by Finbarr Barry Flood

  Provides a detailed study of the Great Mosque, using textual, visual and archaeological evidence. The work explores the function of religious architecture within an official visual discourse intended to project a distinctive Muslim identity determined by Umayyad political aspirations.
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  De poorten van Damascus

  by Lieve Joris

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  Seven Pillars of Wisdom

  A Triumph

  by T. E. Lawrence

  Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the monumental work that assured T.E. Lawrence's place in history as "Lawrence of Arabia." Not only a consummate military history, but also a colorful epic and a lyrical exploration of the mind of a great man, this is one of the indisputable classics of 20th century English literature. Line drawings throughout.
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  Mirror to Damascus

  by Colin Thubron

  This is a book describing the historical sights that await the traveller of Damascus. The author, Colin Thubron, has built up a following with his travel writing on places in the world least understood by people.
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  The Lives of Shadows: An Illustrated Novel

  by Barbara Hodgson

  In the spring of 1914, a restless young man leaves England for a tour of the exotic east. A bit of Egypt, a glimpse of Syria, a nod to Constantinople -- that's all that was supposed to happen. Instead, Julian Beaufort becomes mesmerized. Wandering in idle admiration through the labyrinthine streets of Damascus, he stumbles upon Bait Katib, a house that takes possession of his heart. It is elegant; it is ancient;... (more)