Samarkand (Record no. 18485)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
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| ISBN | 9780349106168 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823 |
| Author Mark | MAA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR | |
| Author Name | Maalouf, Amin. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Samarkand |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Abacus (UK), |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1992 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Pages | 384 p. |
| Dimensions | 5.25 x 8 in |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | The story of Samarkand is woven around the history of the manuscript of the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam, from its creation by the poet and sage in eleventh-century Persia to its loss when the Titanic sank in 1912. Unwittingly involved in a brawl on the streets of Samarkand, Omar Khayyam is brought before a local judge who recognizes his genius as a poet and gives him a blank book in which to inscribe his verses. Thus the head of a great poet is saved and the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam is born. The threads of his life become interwoven with the designs of the vizier, Nizam al Mulk, and of Hassan Sabbah, the founder of the Order of the Assassins who later hides the precious manuscript in his famous mountain fortress. At the end of the nineteenth century the poems fire the imagination of the West in Edward Fitzgerald's evocative translation. An American scholar learns of the manuscript's survival and recovers it with the help of a Persian princess. Together they take it on the fateful voyage of the Titanic.<br/> |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Subject / Department | Omar Khayyam, Fiction. Samarqand (Uzbekistan), History, Fiction. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Harris, Russell. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Not for loan | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving Location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Price | Inventory number | Full Call Number | Accession No./Barcode | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| English Fiction | Air University Multan Campus Library | Air University Multan Campus Library | Fiction | 04/12/2011 | Saeed Book Bank | 676.00 | SJ004 | 823 MAA | P000229 | 01/15/2015 | Book |