Ruins or Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781564597854
Subjects: Philosophy of religion; Religious; Philosophy; Reference; Political
First sentence: IN the eleventh year of the reign of Abd-ul-Hamid, son of Ahmid, emperor of the Turks; when the Nogais-Tartars were driven from the Crimea, and a Mussulman prince of the blood of Gengis-Kahn became the vassal and guard of a Christian woman and queen, I was travelling in the Ottoman dominions, and through those provinces which were anciently the kingdoms of Egypt and Syria.