Beyond the River: Ottoman Transjordan in Original Photographs.BEYOND THE RIVER OTTOMAN TRANSJORDAN IN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS By Raouf Sa'd Abujaber and Felicity Cobbing published by Stacey International ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 1 900988 82 8 price 21.25 [pounds sterling] hardback During the 19th and early 20th century, the rugged, mountainous land through which the River Jordan flows was a region of untouched beauty and deeply held tribal traditions. The people of this country had preserved through the ages a way of life that was to crumble in the face of the dramatic and often violent changes the country was to face. Beyond the River gathers over 200 black-and-white photographs of Transjordan from the collections of the Palestine Exploration Fund The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society, it is often simply known as the PEF. History Founded in 1865 by a group of Biblical archaeologists and clergymen, the most notable of these were the Dean of Westminster Abbey, Arthur P. in London, taken during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire (ŏt`əmən), vast state founded in the late 13th cent. by Turkish tribes in Anatolia and ruled by the descendants of Osman I until its dissolution in 1918. , through the First World War, and the establishment of the Hashemite Emirate e·mir·ate n. 1. The office of an emir. 2. The nation or territory ruled by an emir. Noun 1. emirate - the domain controlled by an emir of Jordan in 1921 from which the modern Kingdom evolved. These evocative images of the peoples, monuments, and landscapes of Transjordan, capture the distinctive spirit of the place, and provide an imperishable im·per·ish·a·ble adj. Not perishable: imperishable food; imperishable hopes. im·per documentation of the region's archaeological heritage. |
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