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Page 482
... Jeddah , fifty miles away , if there were sufficient reason . My first name was a Moslem one . The name Burke ; was it derived from the Arabic word for lightning ? Was I perhaps of Moslem extraction ? No , I had to tell the official ; I ...
... Jeddah , fifty miles away , if there were sufficient reason . My first name was a Moslem one . The name Burke ; was it derived from the Arabic word for lightning ? Was I perhaps of Moslem extraction ? No , I had to tell the official ; I ...
Page 490
... Jeddah who would help me , Mutawassit realised that this was Abdallah , because he referred to him as Alif - Lam : the first and fifth letters of his name . I did not quite understand at first that this numerical code was used , and it ...
... Jeddah who would help me , Mutawassit realised that this was Abdallah , because he referred to him as Alif - Lam : the first and fifth letters of his name . I did not quite understand at first that this numerical code was used , and it ...
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... Jeddah , strangely calm , as if some primitive instinct told me that I was safer here , half - buried , and thought ... Jeddah was visible , a cluster of stone houses , some of them with several storeys , some modern buildings , less ...
... Jeddah , strangely calm , as if some primitive instinct told me that I was safer here , half - buried , and thought ... Jeddah was visible , a cluster of stone houses , some of them with several storeys , some modern buildings , less ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 81 |
ALI AND CO BY ROY FORSTER | 96 |
A STORM IN A COFFEECUP BY A DRUMMOND | 384 |
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