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...o so, the Turks disembowelled him to death and decapitated the writhing rump. The Ottomans granted independence to Bulgaria in the 1878 Treaty of ... ...gn powers in foreign-run and owned schools. Then they set about a typical infandous Ottoman orgy of shredded entrails, gang raped corpses of young g... ...ants. Further confusion awaited. In 1897, following the Crete uprising against the Ottoman rule and in favour of Greek enosis (unification), Turkey... ...posed to these atrocities, the more one is prone to subscribe to the view that the Ottoman Empire - its halting and half hearted efforts at reform ... ...... Resen (Resana). Let it be clear: this author harbours no sympathy towards the Ottoman Empire. The IMRO was fighting for lofty ideals (Balkania... ...ot by chance that the most common self-descriptions of the aggrievement suffered by Arabs in most of the encounters with the Israelis or other non-A... ...e people who, on top of the usual set of privations experienced by the majority of Arabs, had to go through wars, flight, loss of possessions and h... ... USA towards Israel, however lacking consistency and continuity is perceived by the Arabs in rather biblical terms as a rejection of one son in favo...

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...and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled, the disenfra... ...in "progressive" Arab countries, such as Egypt and Jordan. Everyone - Europeans and Arabs, Asians and Africans - think that "the spread of American... ...o rampant mercenaries, erstwhile "allies" turned bitter enemies. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled most of the Balkan, up to the very gates of... ...Africa including Algeria, and most of the Arab Peninsula. It lasted 600 years. The Ottomans invaded Europe while still serving as a proxy army of m... ...des of the twentieth century. Not unlike the Moslem Afghani warriors of 1989, the Ottomans, too, turned on their benefactors and brought on the de... ...mise of Byzantium after 1000 years of uninterrupted existence as a superpower. The Ottomans were named after Osman I, the Oguz (Turkmen) tribal lea... ...sform the agency by flooding it with his Arab contacts from the Middle East. These Arabs were not interested in liberating Afghanistan as much as i... ...ganizations and states are tools which consist of individuals and used by them. The Arabs in Afghanistan are indeed Arabs. There are also lots of "P... .... Chechens who choose to go to Afghanistan instead must be quite unpatriotic. The Arabs form the hard core of Al-Qaida. They are the Egyptian, Syr...

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...nations that inhabit the territories that once belonged to Byzantium or the Ottoman Empire). Cultures and civilizations which frown upon individua... ..."good" humanity against "bad" people (e.g., Communists during the Cold war, Arabs, or failed states such as Iran). Even global warming is a symptom...

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...aghreb region of North Africa, establishing a number of military posts. By 698, following several more military campaigns in the Maghreb, the Arabs ... ...hens, exhorting the Athenians to democracy and greatness. I saw the Parthenon evolve from a temple to Athena, to a Christian church then to an Ottoma...

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...me composed by Theodore Herzl, Judaism's improbable visionary - Herzl refers to the Arabs as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and t... ...tion. The State of Israel is not exclusionary. There are a million Israelis who are Arabs, both Christians and Muslims. It is true, though, that J... ...eturn grants them immediate citizenship. Because of obvious conflicts of interest, Arabs cannot serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Consequen... ...fits conferred on war veterans and ex-soldiers. Regrettably, it is also true that Arabs are discriminated against and hated by many Israelis, thou... ...le had a corrosive corrupting influence on Israeli society. The Anti-Israeli: The Arabs, who first welcomed the Jewish settlers and the economic o... ...ured well into the twentieth century. It was entrenched in the legal systems of the Ottoman Empire and of Czarist Russia. Elements of feudalism surv... ...and Russia recognized the East-West divide. The implosion of the four empires - the Ottoman, Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov - following the fir...

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...me composed by Theodore Herzl, Judaism's improbable visionary - Herzl refers to the Arabs as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and t... ...tion. The State of Israel is not exclusionary. There are a million Israelis who are Arabs, both Christians and Muslims. It is true, though, that J... ...eturn grants them immediate citizenship. Because of obvious conflicts of interest, Arabs cannot serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Consequen... ...fits conferred on war veterans and ex-soldiers. Regrettably, it is also true that Arabs are discriminated against and hated by many Israelis, thou... ...le had a corrosive corrupting influence on Israeli society. The Anti-Israeli: The Arabs, who first welcomed the Jewish settlers and the economic o... ...ured well into the twentieth century. It was entrenched in the legal systems of the Ottoman Empire and of Czarist Russia. Elements of feudalism surv... ...and Russia recognized the East-West divide. The implosion of the four empires - the Ottoman, Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov - following the fir...

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...pl.); 2 AM, 1 FM, and 2 TV stations; 1 Atlantic Ocean, 1 Indian Ocean, and 1 ARABSAT satellite stations; tropo- spheric scatter and microwave to Qatar... ...Ethnic divisions: some 200 distinct ethnic groups, most of whom are Muslims (Arabs, Toubou, Fulbe, Kotoko, Hausa, Kanem- bou, Baguirmi, Boulala, and M... ...opl.); 2 AM, 1 FM, 2 TV stations; 1 Indian Ocean satellite ground station, 1 ARABSAT station, 1 submarine cable to Saudi Arabia Defense Forces Branche... ...tality rate: 14.1/1,000 (1983) Life expectancy: 72.1 Literacy: 88% Jews, 70% Arabs Labor force: 1,400,000 (1984 est.); 29.5% public services; 22.8% in... ...ons; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT station, 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT sta- tion; 1 ARABSAT station; coaxial cable and radio-relay to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and... ...pital: Beirut Administrative divisions: 4 provinces Legal system: mixture of Ottoman law, canon law, and civil law; constitution mandated in 1926; no ...

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... people—T urks, according to my present impression, but it might have been Arabs— make an old traditional distinction (so said the French jour- nal) b... ...haps the reader will thank us for rehears- ing the main steps by which the Ottoman power had flowed and ebbed. The foundations of this empire were lai... ...inople, put an end to the Roman empire; and before his death he placed the Ottoman power in Europe pretty nearly on that basis to which it had again f... ...George came forward as the asserter of Servian independence, and drove the Ottomans out of that prov- ince. Personally he was not finally successful. ... ...een partially kept alive by the existence of a native militia, to whom the Ottoman government, out of mere necessity, had commit- ted the local defenc... ...ke; next a cannonade announcing the approach of the Pacha; and, lastly, an Ottoman brig of war, which saluted the fort and cast anchor before the town...

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...d daggers in his girdle; fierce, but not the least dangerous. Wild swarthy Arabs, who had come in with the caravans, walked solemnly about, very diffe... ...folio, and remove the cause of the disturbance, and lost my drawing of the Ottoman Porte. I don’t think I have anything more to say about the city whi... ...en in the spelling-books; else I would tell you that the government of the Ottoman Porte seems to be as rotten, as wrinkled, and as feeble as the old ... ...of animals,—some fourteen in all. Add to these, two most grave and stately Arabs in white beards, white tur- bans, white haicks and raiments; sabres c... ... ascended, leaving our horses to the care of a multitude of roaring ragged Arabs beneath, who took charge of and fed the animals, though I can’t say i... ... spite of its strength, however, it has more than once been stormed by the Arabs, and the luckless fathers within put to death. Hard by was Rebecca’s ... ...going to the Jordan that day, and scores of their followers—of the robbing Arabs, who profess to protect them (magnificent figures some of them, with ...

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...is made a prefect; and the prime minister comes down to be a foot-boy. The Ottomans have no system of promotion and no hierarchy. From a cavalry offic... ...nt. At the affair of the Makta, where the field had to be abandoned to the Arabs, Monsieur de Serizy was left wounded under a dead horse. Oscar, disco... ...He dashed upon the enemy, and his electrified soldiers fol- lowed him. The Arabs, in their first astonishment at this furious and unlooked-for return,... ...t was monsieur who so bravely rescued the Vicomte Jules de Serizy from the Arabs?” said Reybert, “and for whom the count has obtained the collectorshi...

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...and Mr Merdle, seated diverse ways and with ruminating aspects on a yellow ottoman in the light of the fire, holding no verbal communication with each... ..., he took himself into custody by the wrists, and backed himself among the ottomans and chairs and tables as if he were his own Police officer, saying... ...dogs in women’s nightcaps a great deal too big for ‘em, calling themselves Arabs and all sorts of incoherent races. YOU know ‘em! Well! He was coming ...

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...ole negro population of Africa is now rotten with diseases intro- duced by Arabs and Europeans during the last century, and such African statesmen as ... ...urs turn their backs with an equal resolution, and that is the fate of the Ottoman Empire. What in plain English are we up to there? Whatever happens,...

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..., all would have chilled love to death had not Paquita been there, upon an ottoman, in a loose voluptuous wrapper, free to scatter her gaze of gold an... ...e lantern of a good woman who sold brandy and coffee to workmen and street arabs and chestnut venders—to all the Parisian popu- lace which begins its ...

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...will make roads not only for French, Bel- gians, and Italians, but for the Arabs whose religion and cul- ture already lie like a net over black Africa... ...ckon with Islam and the Arab; where the continental deserts are, there the Arabs are and there is Islam; their culture will never be destroyed and rep... ...e trend of events in Asia Minor, the break- ing up and decapitation of the Ottoman Empire and the Euphrates invasion, points to a great revival of Mes...

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...bye.” 51 Melville CHAPTER X. In the Cabin STOOLS, settees, sofas, divans, ottomans; occupying them are clusters of men, old and young, wise and simpl... ...ent Egyptians? What to us are their words or their thoughts? Are we pauper Arabs, without a house of our own, that, with the mummies, we must turn squ...

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...uth, Agree to a short armistice with truth. He had travell’d ‘mongst the Arabs, Turks, and Franks, And knew the self loves of the different na... ...as open’d wide, And a magnificent large hall display’d The Asian pomp of Ottoman parade. I won’t describe; description is my forte, But ever... ...nderneath her chair, Or rather sofa (for it was all pillow, A low soft ottoman), and black despair Stirr’d up and down her bosom like a bill... ...oping Conceal’d her features better than a veil; And one hand o’er the ottoman lay drooping, White, waxen, and as alabaster pale: Would th...

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...nowned in archery, the Parthians and the Medes that fight as they fly, the Arabs that ever shift their dwellings, the Scythians as cruel as they are f... ...agining the Turks to be invincible on sea-on that day, I say, on which the Ottoman pride and arrogance were broken, among all that were there made hap... ...nd regular Turkish soldiers, and more than four hundred thousand Moors and Arabs from all parts of Africa, and in the train of all this great host suc... ... Doria; and what made his death the more sad was that he was slain by some Arabs to whom, seeing that the fort was now lost, he entrusted himself, and... ...tion on the coast held by the Genoese employed in the coral fishery. These Arabs cut off his head and carried it to the commander of the Turkish fleet... ...em only four surnames belonging to families tracing their descent from the Ottoman house, and the others, as I have said, take their names and surname...

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...nowned in archery, the Parthians and the Medes that fight as they fly, the Arabs that ever shift their dwellings, the Scythians as cruel as they are f... ...agining the Turks to be invincible on sea-on that day, I say, on which the Ottoman pride 306 Don Quixote and arrogance were broken, among all that we... ...nd regular Turkish soldiers, and more than four hundred thousand Moors and Arabs from all parts of Africa, and in the train of all this great host suc... ... Doria; and what made his death the more sad was that he was slain by some Arabs to whom, seeing that the fort was now lost, he entrusted himself, and... ...tion on the coast held by the Genoese employed in the coral fishery. These Arabs cut off his head and carried it to the commander of the Turkish fleet... ...em only four surnames belonging to families tracing their descent from the Ottoman house, and the others, as I have said, take their names and surname... ...at had an humble origin and rose to the greatness they still preserve, the Ottoman house may serve as an example, which from an humble and lowly sheph...

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...pale brow. He then entered the room. Madame de Villefort was sitting on an ottoman and impatiently turning over the leaves of some newspa- pers and pa... ...he Tiber at high water from the bridge of St. Angelo. Now, as these street Arabs of Rome, more fortunate than those of Paris, understand every languag...

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...he Shamanistic or Buddhist Turks. It was the Zoroastrian Persians.22 Within 100 years of the death of the Prophet Muhammad, i.e. by 750, the Muslim Arabs had expanded their political state far beyond the Arab lands. Consequently, the Muslim community of believers, umma, began to encompass ethnicities beyond the Arabs themselves. The first non-Arabs to accept Islam in lar...

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... Nationality and Religion: Three Observation from Omer Seyfettin Central Asian Survey (Oxford) Vol. 3, No. 3, 1985 Koprulu/Veles (Yugoslavia) Ottoman Garrison's Response to the 1909 Recidivist Uprising in Istanbul: From the Memoirs of Omer Seyfettin Turkistan Newsletter Vol. 97-1:18a, 2 July 1997 Happy Meleagris Gallopavo Day Journal of American Studies of Tu...

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...nhabited by poor people, who set up their rest among its faded glories, as Arabs of the desert pitch their tents among the fallen stones of the Pyrami... ...mposed herself voluptuously, in a nest of crimson and gold cushions, on an ottoman near the parrot. 237 Little Dorrit ‘Also professional?’ said Mrs M... ...casionally arranged her dress, or the com- position of her figure upon the ottoman. ‘So he is very impressible. Not a misfortune in our natural state ... ...verie from which he was only aroused by his wife’s calling to him from her ottoman, when they had been for some quarter of an hour alone. ‘Eh? Y es?’ ... ...and Mr Merdle, seated diverse ways and with ruminating aspects on a yellow ottoman in the light of the fire, holding no verbal communication with each... ..., he took himself into custody by the wrists, and backed himself among the ottomans and chairs and tables as if he were his own Police officer, saying...

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...; and even a hot one had been conceived most narrowly. Many of the Bedouin Arabs complain of ablutions not adapted to their waterless condition. These... ...lment. But others, as that about the fate of Babylon—about the fate of the Arabs (the children of Ishmael)—about the fate of the Jews—are not of a nat... ...the idea of a translation from the old western Rome, and overthrown by the Ottoman T urks in the year 1453. In the fortunes and main stages of this em... ...at Constantinople, and half by the preternatural energy in- fused into the Arabs by their false prophet and legislator. In 208 Theological Essays and... ...ying had been his Asiatic revenues. Secondly, the original position of the Arabs had been better than that of the emperor, in every stage of the warfa... ...overnments. Where was protection to be had for that? Barbarous as were the Arabs, they saw their present advantage. Often it would happen from the pos...

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...stitution that continued until 1924, first under Arab and eventually under Ottoman Turkish control. Many Muslims look back at the century after the re... ...to the Prophet Mohammed as a golden age. Its memory is strongest among the Arabs.What happened then—the spread of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula thr... ...din offers an extreme view of Islamic history designed to appeal mainly to Arabs and Sunnis. He draws on fundamentalists who blame the eventual destru... ...ht against you.” 14 These charges found a ready audience among millions of Arabs and Muslims angry at the United States because of issues ranging from... ...its duties as the custodian of Islam’s holiest places, joined with wealthy Arabs from the Kingdom and other states bordering the Persian Gulf in donat... ...ive vision of their faith, not the violent sectarianism of Bin Ladin.Among Arabs, Bin Ladin’s followers are com- monly nicknamed takfiri, or “those wh... ...nce of the Muslim world. Moghul India, Safavid Persia, and, above all, the Ottoman Empire were great Islamic powers that arose long after the Baghdad ...

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...ese to become no bet ter than a modern drawing room, with its divans, and ottomans, and sun shades, and a hundred other orien tal things, which we a... ...to human muscles alone, on record, is that of certain Walden 35 wandering Arabs, who are said to have cleared twenty five feet on level ground. With...

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...g these to become no better than a modern drawing room, with its divans, and ottomans, and sunshades, and a hun dred other oriental things, which we ... ...ne leap, due to human muscles alone, on record, is that of certain wandering Arabs, who are said to have cleared twenty five feet on level ground. With...

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...s of Christendom. Indeed, whether on carpets, or curtains, or tapestry, or ottoman cov- erings, all upholstery of this nature should be rigidly Arabes... ...music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. With no great range of imagination, th...

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...nhabited by poor people, who set up their rest among its faded glories, as Arabs of the desert pitch their tents among the fallen stones of the Pyrami... ...mposed herself voluptuously, in a nest of crimson and gold cushions, on an ottoman near the parrot. 237 Little Dorrit – Book One ‘Also professional?’... ...casionally arranged her dress, or the com- position of her figure upon the ottoman. ‘So he is very impressible. Not a misfortune in our natural state ... ...verie from which he was only aroused by his wife’s calling to him from her ottoman, when they had been for some quarter of an hour alone. ‘Eh? Y es?’ ...