Jaafar of Arabia, Patrick Sean Lee [i have read the book TXT] 📗
- Author: Patrick Sean Lee
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Winner of the 2015 Official Member Writing Contest (OMWC)
An administrator to the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad is sent on a mission to establish the arts and sciences in a small city sitting on the banks of the Tigris in 1,000 A.D. He enters a Kaveh Kanes incognito one evening, followed by an assassin...
The modern coffee house took its "modern" form in the Islamic Empire during the reign of the Abbasid Caliphs many centuries after the birth of Christ. Baghdad was the center of civilization at a time when Europe found itself mired in intellectual darkness. Men gathered in the Kaveh Kanes to drink the strong brew, discuss events of the day, and keep the knowledge of the classics--Greek, Roman, and their own--alive. We owe much to these men of culture and learning, not the least of which is the modern coffee house.
An administrator to the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad is sent on a mission to establish the arts and sciences in a small city sitting on the banks of the Tigris in 1,000 A.D. He enters a Kaveh Kanes incognito one evening, followed by an assassin...
The modern coffee house took its "modern" form in the Islamic Empire during the reign of the Abbasid Caliphs many centuries after the birth of Christ. Baghdad was the center of civilization at a time when Europe found itself mired in intellectual darkness. Men gathered in the Kaveh Kanes to drink the strong brew, discuss events of the day, and keep the knowledge of the classics--Greek, Roman, and their own--alive. We owe much to these men of culture and learning, not the least of which is the modern coffee house.
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