Consider Islam's seventy-two versions, but the Qur'an can only be understood in Arabic, which is a con (like the virgin birth?) like an afterlife that burgeons pure
seraglios, for few gals in burkas are virgins.
Within this diversity of their objectives, one common factor was their intense desire to step into the women's quarters and behold with their eyes the mysterious world of seraglios. Thus, the most fascinating theme to capture their attention was women and domestic life in Mughal India.
The ostentatious display of wealth at court, the splendour and luxury exhibited at celebrations led them to imagine a fairy-tale like life of women inside the well-guarded seraglios of the Mughals.
The economic depression did not spare the Hindu community, especially the Saraswat brahmin landlords and traders, who suddenly woke up to the reality that the rich businessmen from Bombay had begun to outbid them in the temple
seraglios of Goa.
Lal, to depict "the harem of the Mughal emperor, the seraglios of royal princes and important nobles, but primarily the harem of the King."
Nath, "it denoted seraglio, or the secluded part of the palace or residence reserved for the ladies of the Muslim household.
The "Casa Domini" issue is only part of the DSB signals to Kushlev over the so-called "Dogan Properties or
Seraglios," including those in Dogan's native village of Drandar and the Black Sea city of Burgas.
At least the Leger's a real race, you can say - and one that's sure to include more than a few who'll still be entertaining us long after those pampered Arc triallists have retired to their respective
seraglios; long after, in one or two cases no doubt, those triallists' sons are three-year-olds themselves.
He disdained the contemporary craze for the Islamic world, and the
seraglios, souks, camels and bloodthirsty desert fights in the art of Delacroix, Gerome and Chasseriau (the pupil who deserted him for his enemy Delacroix and then spoke ill of his old tutor).
I want to give the audience good clean action stories that please and entertain them." Too often this resulted in what one critic described as "an impossibly dull type of ephemera designed expressly for little boys who wear pistols to the theater on a Saturday afternoon and those desolate souls who find some escape in films of lost cities and marbled
seraglios." Ladd seemed to wander through these marbled
seraglios like something of a desolate soul himself: a pistol in hand, his face frozen in the same, unflinching expression of toughness.
In the face of any contemplated reform to overcome institutionalized parochialism, suburban councillors, in particular, quickly forge a shrill coalition of the unwilling, being locked in to the political
seraglios they have chosen (Lightbody, 1998a).
Like his portrait of Napoleon as First Consul, Ingres's picture of Napoleon's sister, Caroline Murat, for a while Queen of Naples, comes close to his romantic tableaux (from classical antiquity, the Renaissance in Italy and France, and the
seraglios of the Ottoman Empire).
The Commission, like the
Seraglio, is a world apart, with its own hierarchy, its rites, rituals and traditions.
