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The Moor's Last Sigh traces four generations of the narrator's family and the ultimate effects upon the narrator. The narrator, Moraes Zogoiby, traces his family's beginnings down through time to his own lifetime. Moraes, who is called "Moor" throughout the book, is an exceptional character, whose physical body ages twice as fast as a normal ...
1.95 m × 3.02 m (6 ft 5 in × 9.9 ft) Owner. Private collection. The Sigh of the Moor is an oil-on-canvas painting of Muhammad XII, (Boabdil), last Nasrid Emir of Granada. It was painted in the late 19th century by the Spanish artist Francisco Pradilla Ortiz. The painting depicts Boabdil, having ceded Granada to the Catholic Monarchs of Spain ...
Muhammad XII was the son of Abu l-Hasan Ali, Sultan of the Emirate of Granada whom he succeeded in 1482, [4] as a result of both court intrigue and unrest amongst the population at large. [5] Muhammad XII soon sought to gain prestige by invading Castile, but was taken prisoner at Lucena in 1483. [4] Muhammad's father was then restored as ruler ...
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The Moor's Last Sigh: Salman Rushdie: Novel: England: Moraes Zagoiby is of Catholic, Jewish and Muslim heritage living in India. Within the novel, Zogoiby's Jewish community at Cochin disperses. Sander Gilman describes the novel as one in the "model of storytelling in which the Jews exist in the past but vanish as the storyteller moves toward ...
Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór. Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór (traditional feminine form, the alternative masculine form being " Sí Beag, Sí Mór "), anglicized as Sheebeg, Sheemore, [ 1][ 2] is a traditional Irish folk tune. The title uses the word sí, the Irish for 'fairy mound'. [ 3]
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After a great storm, slits between the world of jinns and the world of men are opened and strange phenomena emerge as dark jinnis invade the Earth. The jinnia princess and her children thus need to fight to defend the Earth and the humans from them, the Grand Ifrits. All the while, the Great Philosopher Averroes (Ibn Rushd) and the famous ...