Vathek

VathekVathek (1786) is a novel by William Beckford. Inspired by his travels, Beckford wrote Vathek in French before supervising its translation into English by Reverend Samuel Henley. Recognized as an instrumental work in the popularization of Orientalist fiction, Vathek is an early Gothic novel that influenced such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron, Robert Southey, and H. P. Lovecraft. Born into a royal family, Vathek is appointed the ninth caliph of

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Distinguished scholars in Islamic Studies

growth of the U

a new legal and cultural orthodoxy fostered the development of an early-modern Islam that broke new ground

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The Victorian aquarium investigates the nineteenth-century vogue for home tanks

a hermeneutic style of Biblical commentary of Jewish origin

deteriorating over time

the mechanisms leading to population and energy exchanges between a quantum dot and its environment are not yet fully understood

inspired by Yeats’ membership in the Rosicrucian Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

the book examines the special characteristics of the Pratyabhijña discourse as both philosophical apologetics and spiritual exercise

Jorge Lavelli