An Arabian Princess Between Two Worlds
An Arabian Princess Between Two Worlds

Author: Sayyida Salme

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-05-09

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9004508791

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Princess Salme, daughter of Sa‘id ibn Sultan, ruler of Oman and Zanzibar, was born in Zanzibar on August 30, 1844. In 1866 she fled to Aden where she was baptized with the Christian name Emily and where she married the German merchant Rudolph Heinrich Ruete. In Hamburg three children were born. Her husband died in 1870, and after that she lived in several cities in Germany. In 1885 and again in 1888 she went to Zanzibar. Between 1889 and 1914 she lived in Jaffa and Beirut, and afterwards again in Germany. She died in Jena in 1924. The present work contains a short biography of Princess Salme/Emily Ruete and of her son Rudolph Said-Ruete, a new English translation of her Memoirs, and an English version of her other writings, unpublished so far: Letters Home, Sequels to the Memoirs and Syrian Customs and Usages.

The Sultan's Shadow
The Sultan's Shadow

Author: Christiane Bird

Publisher: Random House Incorporated

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0345469402

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A dramatic account of the slave trade in the early 19th century Indian Ocean is presented through the stories of the Omani Sultan Said and his daughter, Princess Salme, offering insight into the Arabian Peninsula kingdom's lucrative growth and ties to America.

Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar

Author: Emilie Ruete

Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

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Emily Ruete was born in 1840 as Princess Sayyida of Zanzibar. Set against a backdrop of political intrigue in the great age of European colonialism, this memoir offers a portrait of 19th-century Arab and African life, not only in the palace, but in the city and plantations as well.

Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar

Author: Emily Ruete

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-02-15

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1365759458

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Emily Ruete was born in Zanzibar (in modern day Tanzania) as Sayyida Salme, Princess of Zanzibar and Oman. She was the youngest of the 36 children of Sayyid Said bin Sultan Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar and Oman. Her extraordinary life story is the subject of Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar.

Isabella Motadinyane
Isabella Motadinyane

Author: Motadinyane, Isabella

Publisher: Deep South

Published: 2018-11-05

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 0987028278

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Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia
Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia

Author: M. E. Hume-Griffith

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-06

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13:

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"Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East" by M. E. Hume-Griffith and A. Hume-Griffith is the detailed account of two doctors' mission to Persia and Turkey. Written as a travelogue, the book shows an appreciation for this exotic and fascinating culture while also framing the differences with the European customs of the book's audience.

The Penetration of Arabia
The Penetration of Arabia

Author: David George Hogarth

Publisher:

Published: 1904

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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Record of the development of western knowledge concerning the Arabian peninsula.