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book by Al-Nasa'i

term used to illustrate a series of 36 stratagems (referenced: the Book of Qi's seventh biographical volume, Biography of Wáng Jìngzé (王敬則傳), ca. 436CE)

text on kenjutsu and the martial arts, written by Miyamoto Musashi

Chinese historical text (compiled in 648)

novel by George R. R. Martin

The Muʻallaqāt (, ) is a compilation of seven long pre-Islamic Arabic poems. The name means The Suspended Odes or The Hanging Poems, they were named so because these poems were hung in the Kaaba in Mecca. Some scholars have also suggested that the hanging is figurative, as if the poems "hang" in the reader's mind.

1869 novella by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

large reference work translated from Soviet source

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novel by Yasunari Kawabata

1929 essay by José Ortega y Gasset

ancient Chinese collection of speeches attributed to rulers and other men from the Spring and Autumn period

book by Avicenna

compilation of Irish annals

1928 novel by Alexander Belyayev

thumb|Prabhāvatī and the Parrot Śukasaptati, or Seventy tales of the parrot, is a collection of stories originally written in Sanskrit. The stories are supposed to be narrated to a woman by her pet parrot, at the rate of one story every night, in order to dissuade her from going out to meet her paramour when her husband is away. The stories frequently deal with illicit liaisons, the problems that flow from them and the way to escape those crises by using one's wits. Though the actual purpose of the parrot is to prevent its mistress from leaving, it does so without moralising. At the end of the

anonymous medieval chronicle

Croatian national encyclopedia

poem by Alexander Pushkin

book by Ibn Hibban

universal history written in the 13th century AD (published 1231)

book by Xue Juzheng

The Ashokavadana (; ; ) is an Indian Sanskrit-language text that describes the birth and reign of the third Mauryan Emperor Ashoka. It glorifies Ashoka as a Buddhist emperor whose only ambition was to spread Buddhism far and wide.

book by Hakim al-Nishaburi

general German-language music encyclopedia (1st edition, 1949)

fairy tale by Aleksey Tolstoy

sarcastic treatise by Schopenhauer on 38 ways of winning an argument

Collection of Islamic texts

American internal medicine textbook

13th century Persian historical text

novella by Ivan Turgenev. Written in 1857, first published in 1858 in the first issue of the journal "Sovremennik" (Volume LXVII), 39-84.

literary work

ancient Latin book on rhetoric

Iraqi Islamic theologian and scholar (1250-1325)

11th century Persian history book

The Ratirahasya (Sanskrit ) (translated in English as Secrets of Love, also known as the Koka Shastra) is an early medieval Kashmiri sex manual written by Kokkoka, a poet, who is variously described as Koka or Koka Pandit. The exact date of its writing is not known, but it is estimated the text was written in the 11th or 12th century. It is speculated that Ratirahasya was written to please a king by the name Venudutta. Kokkoka describes himself in the book as siddha patiya pandita, i.e. "an ingenious man among learned men". The manual was written in Sanskrit.

Compilation of Irish annals, in Irish and Latin, which covers a period stretching from biblical times to the late middle ages

book on Arabic grammar

public discourse by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah is one of the books of Hadith of the Prophet. It is among the Hadith books of valuable consideration by Ahlu Sunnah wal Jamaa’ah. In addition to Sahih Ibn Hibban and Al-Mustadrak ‘Ala Sahihayn by Al-Hakim An-Naisaburi, it is deeme

1986 novel written by Ágota Kristóf

unfinished historical novel by Aleksandr Pushkin, based on the life of his maternal great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a black African brought to Russia during the reign of Peter the Great

novel by Ivo Andrić

1968 novel by Oles Honchar

book by Khaṭīb al-Tibrīzī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh

Book by Dayananda Saraswati

All sahih hadiths in one book

The Sharafnama (Kurdish: شەرەفنامە Şerefname; Persian: شرفنامه Sharafnâmeh; ) is a book written in 1597 by the medieval Kurdish historian, poet and prince Sharaf al-Din Bitlisi (1543–1599) in Persian. Sharafnama is regarded as an important, and the oldest, source on Kurdish history. It deals with the different Kurdish dynasties, such as the Ayyubid Dynasty of Saladin, ancient and Medieval Kurdish principalities in the Middle East and the Caucasus, as well as mentioning the pre-Islamic ancestors of the Kurds.

work by Xenophon

one of the earliest hadith collections

book attributed to Abu Hanifa

book by Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Bukhārī

non-fiction work by Hans Kelsen

commentary on the Quran

song dynasty leishu

eleventh-century geography text by Abu Ubayd al-Bakri

clause that states that any ship carrying this substance must follow IMDG regulations

non-fiction work by Cui Hong