by Thalassa Ali
Excerpt on page 2, from An English Interpretation of The Holy Qur'an with full Arabic Text by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Sh. Muhammad Ashraf Publishers and Booksellers, Lahore, Pakistan, 1975.
Excerpt on page 13, fragment of Hafiz translated by Colonel H. Wilberforce Clarke, 1891.
Excerpt on page 193, fragment of Sa'di, translated by Samuel Robinson of Wilmslow, 1883.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ali, Thalassa.
A beggar at the gate/Thalassa Ali.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-48211-2
1. Punjab (India)—Fiction. 2. British—India—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3601.L39B44 2004
813′.6—dc22
2003063898
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