SAUDI ARAMCO WORLD Pakistan SILK ROAD CALENDAR 2005 +++

14 Item Set of Saudi Aramco World Magazine, featuring ISLAM in Afghanistan, Central Asia, Pakistan and Along the Silk Road INCLUDING a Related Calendar and other Arab item. Includes:

ITEM 1.) Saudi Aramco World, November/December 2004; Vol. 55, No. 6;

Feature Article: "Humanitarian to a Nation"; Abdul Sattar Edhi; Front Cover Photo and Article; He may be the most widely admired man in Pakistan, yet he remains little known abroad. Starting in 1951 with a free pharmacy in a poor neighborhood of Karachi, Abdul Sattar Edhi has inspired - by deeds more than words - the growth of a vast nationwide charitable organization of ambulances, clinics, orphanages, asylums, shelters, mortuaries, hospitals, schools and kitchens staffed today by more than 7000 volunteers and funded entirely by private donations;

Europe's New Arabic Connection; When the European Union grew this year from 15 to 25 member countries, it increased from 10 to 20 the number of official languages. Among the new ones was Maltese, spoken by 400,000 people on the island nation between the Italian Peninsula and North Africa - and now the EU's only tongue with roots in Arabic;

Silver Speaks - Bracelets, armbands, necklaces, pendants, belts, chokers, anklets, finger rings, toe rings, earpieces, nosepieces, chestpieces, headpieces and more: Throughout the Middle East, silver jewelry speaks about the lives of women and girls and the talents of artisans. It provides a window into social status, religion, national identities, and changing lives in changing times. In the US, an exhibition surveys and preserves what is now a disappearing act, and tracks a journey to two collectors from beauty's allure to education's mission.;

Back Cover Photo of "Only 10 Centimeters acroos, this silver purse from the Hadhramawt in Yemen opens and closes. Its design is punched and chased; It's braided chain carriers a pair of amulet cases and is finished with tiny bells".;

Regular Departments (May Not be in All Issues) Include: Suggestions for Reading; Suggestions for Listening; Classroom Guide; Reader's Guide; Events & Exhibitions;

ISSN: 1530-5821;

PLUS 2.) Flavors 2005; CALENDAR; Fruit, spices and fire-roasted coffee; dates, olives, rice and hibiscus tea; These are just a few of the elements of the kaleidoscopic, complex culinary cultures of the Middle East, North Africa and the larger Islamic World featured in our wall calendar for the Gregorian year 2005 and the corresponding parts of the hijri years 1425 and 1426;

PLUS 3.) Saudi Aramco World, January/February 2005; Vol. 56, No. 1;

A City Adorned; At One end of Cairo, Egypt, lies the mosque of Ibn Tulun, as vast and horizontal in its design as the desert that once surrounded it. Not far away, in the cosmopolitan center of the medieval city, rises the mosque of Sultan Hasan, as grandly soaring as a Gothic cathedral. Built more than 500 years apart, they mark the resplendent beginning and the magnificent end of a half-millennium of construction that adorned the city with architectural treasures.;

In Search of the Real Troy; The tourist road to Troy is easy, just watch for the big replica wooden horse. Not so the archeologists' road, which is a century and a half of zigzags through fields mined with controversy, intrigue and rivalry. There are now at least 15 identified fortifications amid the mounds of Troy, with nine archeological levels and some 47 sublevels identified to span 4000 years of conquests, reconstructions and earthquakes. No wonder scholarly agreement about the time, place and context of the Trojan war is elusive.;

The Eagle Hunters. In the mountains where the borders of modern China, Mongolia, Russia and Kazakhstan meet, men have trained eagles for winter hunting since Neolithic times. Today these men are Kazahks, originators of the sport of Falconry; to them there is no sport more noble or more demanding, and none that expresses more fully what it means to be a Kazahk. Now, overgrazing is depleteing the game they hunt. At the same time, the rise of cultural tourism gives the sport new value.;

Front Cover Photo; The early 15th century craftsmen who adorned the two domes that shelter the Khanqah or hostel, and religious school of Faraj ibn Barquq in Cairo spaced their herringbone pattern to perfectly match the surface that, though it appears hemispherical, is actually composed of four distinct curves from drum to point. These domes are the largest and earliest Mamluk stone domes in Cairo, with a diameter of over 14 meters.;

Back Cover Photo; Scanning windswept snow for a corsac fox, a golden eagle catches the cold sunlight of the Altai hunting season, which runs from Early November to February.;

PLUS 4.) Saudi Aramco World, March/April 2005; Vol. 56, No. 2;

Feature Article: "Of Stories and Storytellers; Three Decades ago, you wouldn't have found much if you went looking for literature in English by Arab-American writers. Now it's a flourishing category that fills shelves with novels, poetry, plays and other writing - and fills pages with discussions of the meaning, boundaries and importance of the term "Arab-American" writing." At its center is an organization called RAWI, a 10-year-old national salon where writers of Arab heritage are building an American literary community;

The River - It is a home of hippos, but has been known to run dry. Al-Idrisi thought it originated in the Mountains of the Moon. Herodotus reported that its banks were inhabitated by otherworldly creatures. The Niger is Africa's third-longest river and, until about 200 years ago, one of its least known. It waters five countries, but its busiest stretch is in Mali, anchored on the west by the bustle of Mopti and on the east by historica Gao.; Guinea; Nigeria, etc.;

Masterpieces on the Go: The Trucks of Pakistan. Pakistani truck drivers may spend two year's wages customizing their Bedfords or Hinos, buying splendiferous vehicular makeovers that employ painters, carvers, metal chasers, weavers and bric-a-brac assemblage artists - some 50,000 of them in Karachi alone. Some of the decorations echo motifs that adorned pottery, textiles and oxcarts nine millennia ago, but to the owner-drivers, its business. "More people will hire me if I have a beautifully painted truck," says one.;

The model of the Historians. We know almost nothing biographical about the historian al-Mas'udi, other than that he wrote in 10th-century Baghdad, and only two of his 34 works survive-most notably The Meadows of Gold. His refreshingly anecdotal style was of lasting influence, and his personality - forcefully intellectual but endearingly humble - easily crosses the 11 centuries that separate our time from his. The great North African historian Ibn Khaldun paid al-Mas'udi a scholarly compliment of the highest order, calling him "the Iman," or model, of historians, "a source upon which (others) depend...";;

Gum Arabic. Every time you gulpa soda, swallow a cold capsule, eat a jelly bean or lick a postage stamp, you're probably ingesting an almost ubiquitous ingredient: Gum Arabic. It's perfectly edible, you won't taste it, and it's not for chewing - nor is it actually Arab. It's the ultra-soluble, emulsifying sap of the Acacia Senegal tree. Its name reflects the trade links that brought it to Europe in the Middle Ages, and today its growers acroos Sahelian Africa supply it to industries around the world for use in tens of thousands of products.;

Front Cover Photo Collage of Barbara Nimri Aziz, Suheir Hammad, David Williams, Mohja Kahf, Pauline Kaldas, Etel Adnan, Joanna Kadi, Betty Shamieh, Evelyn Shakir. All Members of RAWI. The organization's name means 'storyteller' in Arabic. Its mission is 'to be a gathering nucleus, a catalyst for creative energies, a starting point for more creativity' by its Arab-American writer members;

Back Cover Photo of "Sunset girds the Niger River at Mopit, where local pirogue pilots have tied their boats for the night.;

PLUS 5.) Saudi Aramco World, May/June 2006; Vol. 57, No. 3;

Feature Article: "Cooking in Hunza"; Using their local ingredients, generations of women in Pakistan's northernmost valley developed a remarkably imaginative culinary repertoire. recently, some 25 women pooled their talents to product the first-ever Hunza recipe book - and many of its offerings adapt easily to modern kitchens almost anywhere.;

An Oasis in the balance. For centuries, Siwa's isolation sheltered and nurtured its unique Berber language and artistic culture, but since the mid-1980's, tourism has boomed along with date exports and the newest arrivals in town are land speculators. Affably mixing respect for the past with an embrace of the future, Abdallah Baghi is helping lead his oasis across rapidly shifting sands.;

The Diplomacy of the Sons. A million Chinese soldiers spent the turn of the 15th century watching their western border for an invasion that never happened. Their emperor's letters had infuriated the Central Asian conqueror Timur, but both rulers died before the first battle cry. Their sons proved to be men of a more cosmopolitan bent, and instead of war, they opened one of the most prosperous periods of Silk Roads trade.;

The art and Science of Water. In the Middle ages, the blossoming of sciences across the Islamic lands led to numerous ingenious developments in water technologies. The resulting agricultural boom in turn made possible unprecedented urban growth from Southern Spain to Iran and Oman - and later, in the New World;

The Last Nile Flood. The greatest natural event in Egypt - the annual flooding of the Nile - ended when Aswan High Dm was sealed in 1964. That summer, filmmaker John Feeney journeyed upriver to the source of the Blue Nile, and from there, he and his team recorded the last flood to pass unfettered through Egypt. Today, his photographs are rare icons of the mystery that for thousands of years sustained fellah and Pharoah alike.;

Front Cover Photo of 'One of the few sweets in Hunza Valley cuisine, Sultan Qoq is made by grinding, in one mortar, apricot kernels and walnuts, and another, dried mulberries. These are then combined with a small amount of water to make a paste that can be shaped and allowed to dry. Substitute ingredients included almonds for the apricot kernels, and raisins (sultanas) for the mulberries.';

Back Cover Photo of 'As the Nile River flood rose across Egypt for the last time in 1964, villagers rushed to demolish the temporary earthern dams that had retained a little water from the previous year, welcoming the eager, life-giving flow that would irrigate and fertilize the fields'.

PLUS 6.) Saudi Aramco World, July/August 2007; Vol. 58, No. 4;

Feature Article: "Keyboard Calligraphy. Arabic script, with its multiple forms and rich variability, is not compatible with movable type, and even in 1729 - when the first book was typeset in the Middle East - the central question went unanswered: Could Arabic script retain its unique freedom and character in a mechanical world? New technology and a new kind of analysis of great Caligraphy, may have resolved the conflict.;

Written on the Wind. In the Middle Ages, monsoon-driven commerce helped make Southeast Asia the easternmost outpost of the world of Islam. Today, the region is home to nearly one in five Muslims, and its historic Islamic Arts are increasingly appreciated for both their heritage and their unique beauty.;

New Pieces of Mada'in Salih's puzzle; The master stonecutters of the Nabataean kingdom carved the monumental sandstone tombs of Saudi Arabia's best-known historic site some 2000 years ago, but for almost that long, no one has seen any trace of the city, known as Hegra, where the Nabataean people lived. Now artifact by artifact, Saudi and French aracheologists are piecing together a picture of Nabataean life.;

History's Hinge: 'Ain Jalut; 'You are the only enemy against whom we have to March.' So ended the letter received in 1260 by the sultan of Egypt from the Mongol Khan, whose army of 300,000 warriors had cut an unchecked swath through the Middle East. Forced to choose between abject surrender or a foredoomed battle, the sultan chose boldly. With the help of both a treacherous ally and a distant royal death, he emerged victorious, the myth of Mongol invincibility broken, and a potential threat to the European Renaissance averted.;

New Voices - New Afghanistan. Meet Roya, Elham, Rana, Arsalan and Aimal - five of the young urban pioneers resolutely rebuilding a country where culture, entrepreneurship, religion and heritage all flourish together.;

Front Cover Photo of 'Four letters (one used twice) spell tasmeem ('design') in Arabic, but there are scores of ways to write the word within the esthetic conventions of Arabic calligraphy - a variability that made satisfactory typesetting impossible until know. The variations shown include the initial ta (light blue, or right) with vertical or horizontal points, the sad (red) and Meem (Yellow) in two forms each, and the ya (dark blue) and the final meem (green) in three forms each.;

Back Cover Photo of 'Set aglow by the afternoon sun, the edges of a Nabataean tomb's carefully proportioned cornices contrast with the rough, eroded surface of the sandstone cliff from which it was hewn. At both Mad'in Salih and Petra, Nabataeans developed hybrid architectural styles that drew from both tribal Arabia and the Greco-Roman Mediterranean.';

PLUS 7.) Saudi Aramco World, January/February 2008; Vol. 59, No. 1;

Feature Article: "Hearts of the New Silk Roads"; The great caravans are centuries gone but trade endures as Central Asia buys and sells its way into the global economy as fast as trucks ply new highways. Two cities tell two stories of the tumultuous changes over the 16 years of their independence: Almaty, the booming business hub of Kazakhstan, and Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistand and historic hub of the Silk Road..;

A Man of Two Worlds. Son of a Granadian diplomat living in exile in Morocco, the young may who would later be known as Leo Africanus traveled and wrote about Africa, Arabia and Turkey in the late 16th century. Captured at sea by pirates and delivered to Pope Leo X, he became a celebrity in Rome, His writing remains our most vivid glimpse into his times - and he was probably Shakespeare's model for Othello;

Where the Pepper Grows. Along the steamy southwest coast of India, the Malabar Coast, farmers and sailors traded in the most profitable seaborne cargo of the late Middle Ages; the dried fruit of Piper nigrum - black pepper. (Don't confuse it with chilis.);

The Hakawait of Paris. The most popular stories from the Islamic World ever told in the West are The Thousand and One Nights. Like an Arab storyteller, or hakawati, scholar Antoine Galland cherry-picked from oral traditions and rewrote the tales for his French readers. For 300 years his legacy has been republished, retranslated and reinterpreted - but never rivaled.;

Front Cover Photo of 'New participants in the 21st-century trade networks that reach far beyond the web of the historic Silk Roads, boys in Almaty, Kazakhstan are among the city's new affluent for whom 'Silk Way' is a shopping mall. Produce may look timeless at Tashkent's famous Chorzu market, but the 2400-year-old Silk Road Capital now offers some of the region's most dynamic contemporary culture..';

Back Cover Photo of 'The vivid literary imagery of The Thousand and One Nights has inspired countless artists and illustrators. German artist Carl Offterdinger, who illustrated many folk tales and classical music works, depicted Sinbad carried aloft by the roc, a giant bird, for an edition published in 1900.';

PLUS 8.) Saudi Aramco World, September/October, 2008; Vol. 59, No. 5;

Following Washington Irving. In May 1829, the American Author saddled up a mule in Seville and set out eastward for Granada, where he spent the summer lodged in the Alhambra. Writing there, he recounted the journey in a book that introduced "Moorish Spain" to the budding American romantic imagination. A modern traveler driving the A-92 autopista finds a few traces still left of the Spain that Irving described;

Suitable Luxury. From the times of Alexander the Great to the Modern era, throughout Europe, North Africa and Asia, a ruler conferred honor and protection, and received allegiance in return, through a ceremonial gift of an elegant robe. In Arabic, these robing ceremonies had a name - khil'a - and today, vestiges of them endure around the world;

Mayfair to Makkah. Aristocrat, grandmother, deer hunter, Muslim and fluent speaker of Arabic, Lady Evelyn Cobbold in 1933 became the first British woman to perform the Hajj. Her Journal, title Pilgrimage to Mecca, has been newly republished, and it includes her observations on daily life among women in what was then the new nation of Saudi Arabia.;

Mushaira: Pakistan's Festival of Poetry. Drawing on a classical tradition that dates back at least 500 years to the Mughal court's sharp-witted ghazal competitions, the world's largest festival of contemporary Urdu poetry, the Aalami Mushaira, draws thousands to Karachi each year for passionately expressive-and passionately applauded-recitations by dozens of poets, from beloved celebrities to dazzling new stars;

"We, the Syndicate of Troy. We were about a thousand years old when we heard the brazen clash of the Trojan War - muffled by meters of earth above us - but when the Boss Pulled us out of the ground in 1873, he made us say we'd been on the battleground. What a joker! The Boss was chasing fame, not truth, and we'd been locked up ever since. So here we are to set the record straight, all 9000 of us, in your court of public opinion.";

Front Cover Photo: "At the aalami Mushaira in Karachi, Pakistan, during a program that featutres more than two dozen aacclaimed poets and an audience of thousands, a family listens raptly to a recitation. Year-round, wherever aficionados of Urdu literature are to be found, there are countless smaller mushairas in homes, clubs and community centers throughout Pakistan and India, in Europe and the Americas - and even on the World Wide Web.";

Back Cover Photo: "Having traveled through the mountains, plains and picturesque towns along the road from Seville, Irving was thrilled by the generous gift of the governor of Granada: use of a room with this view, along the north side of the Alhambra, for the summer, with the freedom to wander at will in the fabled courts and gardens.";

PLUS 9.) Saudi Aramco World, September/October, 2009; Vol. 60, No. 5;

Istanbul's Opening. With four new major museums, dozens of stylish art galleries and theaters and a thriving literary scene, the 2800-year-old 'queen of cities' that lives in Asia and Europe is - once again - on the rise as a globalcreative hub. As one writer puts it, 'everywhere you turn there are stories piled up'.; Turkey;

Rx for Oryx. Its horns sweeping back from its head in slender, gentle curves, the Arabia oryx is as symbolic of the Arabian peninsula as the Buffalo is in North America. Four countries - Oman, Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates and Jordan - have each adopted local approaches in their common efforts for the endangered antelope's survival, and they are trading information on the dilemmas and successes of their conservation plans.;

The Tiles of Infinity; Traveling through the Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, Peter Lu noticed ornamental tile patterns so complex that the principles underlying them have been articulated by mathematicians only in the last four decades. How did artisans centuries ago produce them? One answer lay in drawings found on a 500-year-old scroll.;

Front Cover: A decagonal tile pattern adorns a panel of a doorway on the Madrassa of Abdullah Khan in Bukhara. It was one of the panels whose complexity prompted Peter Lu to investigate connnections between the tiles and the principles of non-periodic patterns;

PLUS 10.) Saudi Aramco World, July/August 2010; Vol. 61, No. 4;

Al-Andalus 2.0; What might you learn if you created a character - an avatar - and directed its every action, its speech, dress and behavrio, in a 'virtual community' of people from around the world? Since 2007, Second Life's Al-Andalus Project has explored that question amid architecture and values inspired by the convivencia, or multi-faith 'living together' of medieval Islamic Spain.;

Soaping Up - Mixed, dyed, dried, sliced, stamped, stacked, boxed and - maybe - sold: In Syria and Lebanon where soap-makers have made an art of their product over centuries, three producers of olive oil soap are adapting differently to the pressures of global competition.;

Finding a Balance - In a nation of 230 million people, 700 languages and some 300 ethnicities, ethic Chinese are one of Indonesia's historic minorities. Centuries of Dutch colonial rule favored thoses Chinese over other Indonesians, most of whom were Muslims, and the tensions this produced have begun to ease only in the last decade. Among the Chinese Indonesians, there is one group - a miniority within a minority - that bridges this sensitive divide: the Indonesian Muslims of Chinese descent. Their stories illustrate Indonesia's quest for balance between national unity and cultural identities.;

Movable Palaces - From nomadic necessity to the opulence of royal pomp, from Central Asia to Persia, Turkey and India, tents have taken countless forms that expressed not only their inhabitants' wealth and cultural refinement, but also their technical and organizational powers - especially in the great 'tent cities' of armies and royal ceremonies.;

Feature Article: "Roads of Arabia"; A mileage marker from a road to Makkah is one of 320 treasures in the first comprehensive international exhibition of historical artifacts from Saudi Arabia. Each one is a fragment of a little-known tale of civilizations that interwove arts and trade over thousands of years, with hybrid, yet locally distinctive, results.;

Castles of the Fields - Often rising 18 meters or more above the fields, elegant mud-brick pigeon towers near Isfahan were once sources of fertilizer as well as chemicals used in tanning and making gunpowder;

The Unread Masterpiece of Evliya Celebi - This year marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of the world's least-known great traveler, who chronicled a lifetime of journeys throughtout the Ottoman Empire in 10 'prolix, exuberant and playful' volumes penned in Ottoman Turkish, only a few of which have yet been translated into English.;

Back Cover Photo of 'Pigeon-raising is popular in the Cairo neighborhood of Imbaba, where some birds are raised for food, but many are groomed and bred for beauty, competition and trade.';

PLUS 12.) Saudi Aramco World, May/June, 2011; Vol. 62, No. 3;

Doha's New Modern - A collector and a professor quietly spent 25 years building the world's largest collection of modern art by Arab artists. Finally, last December, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art opened its doors in Doha, Qatar;

On the Surest Path - In 19th-century Tunisia, he was a builder of the modern nation. In Istanbul, he tried to save an empire. To the rest of us, the story of Khary al-Din shows how the rule of law is - in any nation - a key to prosperity and stability.;

Front Cover Photo: "In a brash clash of colors, languages and pop fashion, Moroccan artist Hassan Hajjaj's upbeat portrait of musician Marques Toliver is among new art that is breaking from easy labels like "Arab" or "Middle Eastern.";

Back Cover Photo: "This rooftop view of Dhaka, Bangladesh by Reza Shahriar Rahman is among 29 images, all by first-year photography students, in "The Dhaka of my Dreams," an exhibit produced during a workshop led by photographer and educator Morten Krogvold at the Chobi Mela Festival of Asian Photography.";

Back Cover: A Mumbai embroiderer is eclipsed by his handiwork: a sheer, delicately ornamented ghagra, or multi-paneled wedding skirt, glistening with glass and crystal beads.;

ISSN: 1530-5821;

Back Cover: Sculpture Park of the Annual Aswan International Sculpture Symposium.;

Back Cover: Following lines traced on flat, soft plaster with a stencil...................;

ISSN: 1530-5821;

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