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The three kings bring offerings to the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Dorigny after C. Maratta.

An Arab sheikh smoking a hooka attended by his pipe-bearer. Coloured lithograph by Saint Germain, c. 1850, after E. Prisse.

Two Arab men standing outdoors to converse and smoke. Coloured lithograph by C. Bour, c. 1870, after E. Prisse.

French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.

People eating and drinking before a tapestry; representing the sense of taste. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, c. 1650.

An Arab man in North Africa carrying a bow in his hand and he has a quiver of arrows on his back. Woodcut after C. Vecellio.

Byzantium and the Arabs in the fourth century / Irfan Shahîd.

Ablutions et bains chez les Sémites / par le Dr. Beugnies.

Nafḥ al-ṭīb min ghuṣn al-Andalus al-raṭīb / taʼlīf al-shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī al-Tilimsānī, ḥaqqaqahu al-duktūr Iḥsān ʻAbbās.

Dardishi : issue 01.

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Byzantium and the Arabs in the fourth century / Irfan Shahîd.

Ablutions et bains chez les Sémites / par le Dr. Beugnies.

The three kings bring offerings to the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Dorigny after C. Maratta.

Nafḥ al-ṭīb min ghuṣn al-Andalus al-raṭīb / taʼlīf al-shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī al-Tilimsānī, ḥaqqaqahu al-duktūr Iḥsān ʻAbbās.

Dardishi : issue 01.