In the late 1800s, “Arctic Fever” swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North P
In the late 1800s, “Arctic Fever” swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of t
In 1876, in a mountainous region to the west of Lake Victoria, Africa--what is today Ruwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda--the famed explorer Henry Morton Stanley encountered Africans with what
Representing some of the earliest secular literature of Islam, al-Ya'qubi seems to have been of notable Iraqi birth and education and to have spent his professional life in the service of provincia
The Works of Ibn Wa?i? al-Ya?qubi (3 vols.) contains a translation of the writings of Abu al-`Abbas al-Ya`qubi, a Muslim polymath of the third/ninth century. The works include the History (Ta’rikh); t
What little is known of Ya'qubi's life suggests that he was of notable Iraqi birth and education, and spent much of his professional life in the employment of provincial governing families of the
