Kurban Said’s Followers (152)

Kurban Said

Born

in Kiev, Ukraine

October 01, 1905

Died

September 01, 1942

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Lev Nussimbaum (1905 - 1942) was a prolific Jewish writer who reinvented himself as a Muslim under the pseudonyms Essad Bey and Kurban Said. Despite his being an ethnic Jew, his politics were such that, before his origins were discovered, the Nazi propaganda ministry included his works on their list of "excellent books for German minds". ...more

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Kurban Said’s books

Average rating: 3.91 · 10,159 ratings · 1,201 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Ali and Nino 3.92 avg rating — 9,563 ratings — published 1937 — 149 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl from the Golden Horn by Kurban Said, Jenia Graman (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 600 ratings — published 1938 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hazreti Muhammed Bir Yaşam Öyküsü by Essad Bey, Kurban Said (Aka) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1932 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Kurban Said (?)

“Close your eyes, cover your ears with your hands and open your soul.”
― Kurban Said, Ali and Nino

tags: listen

18 likes

“This was it; the Mystery of The Unseen, the Gate of Sorrow, that leads to the Grace of the Redeemer. I pressed my lips together, and my hands gripped the windowsill. I saw the hand of Fatima, and all the visible world sank away from me.”
― Kurban Said, Ali and Nino

15 likes

“Maybe that is the one real division between men: wood men and desert men.”
― Kurban Said, Ali and Nino

tags: desert, men, trees, wood

11 likes

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Polls

Welk boek gaan we in maart 2021 lezen? (Een boek dat zich afspeelt in een niet-Westers land)

De vliegeraar van Khaled Hosseini - 352 pagina's - Afghanistan

22 votes, 16.5%

Het huis van de moskee van Kader Abdolah - 412 pagina's - Iran

18 votes, 13.5%

Moord op de Nijl van Agatha Christie - 223 pagina's - Egypte

13 votes, 9.8%

Honderd jaar eenzaamheid van Gabriel García Márquez - 428 pagina's - Columbia/Macondo

10 votes, 7.5%

Duizend schitterende zonnen van Khaled Hosseini - 396 pagina's - Afghanistan

9 votes, 6.8%

Mijn zusje, de seriemoordenaar van Oyinkan Braithwaite - 230 pagina's - Nigeria

9 votes, 6.8%

Kleurenblind/Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood van Trevor Noah - 280 pagina's - Zuid-Afrika

8 votes, 6.0%

Atlantis van David Gibbins - 381 pagina's - Egypte/Rode Zee

6 votes, 4.5%

Judas van Amos Oz - 304 pagina's - Israel

6 votes, 4.5%

De vegetariër van Han Kang - 222 pagina's - Zuid Korea

5 votes, 3.8%

Een kist ontploffende mango's van Mohammed Hanif - 415 pagina's - Pakistan

4 votes, 3.0%

De ontembare van Guillermo Arriaga - 830 pagina's - Mexico

3 votes, 2.3%

Ali en Nino van Kurban Said - 282 pagina's - Azerbeidzjan

3 votes, 2.3%

Een huis voor meneer Biswas van V.S. Naipaul - 586 pagina's - Trinidad en Tobago

3 votes, 2.3%

Koorts van Deon Meyer - 582 pagina's - Zuid-Afrika

3 votes, 2.3%

Het lelietheater van Lulu Wang - 495 pagina's - China

3 votes, 2.3%

Blijf bij me van Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ - 288 pagina's - Nigeria

2 votes, 1.5%

Mensenwerk van Han Kang - 240 pagina's - Zuid-Korea

2 votes, 1.5%

Het ding om je hals van Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 254 pagina's - Nigeria

2 votes, 1.5%

Weg naar huis van Yaa Gyasi - 400 pagina's - Ghana

2 votes, 1.5%

Suikerbastaard van Jaap Scholten - 576 pagina's - Ethiopië

0 votes, 0.0%

De schim van mijn liefde van Dương Thu Hương - 509 pagina's - Vietnam

0 votes, 0.0%

133 total votes

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