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  • The things that we are doing in the right now are all because of him, and it's hard to say if you would have achieved these goals without him, said Dr. Shahriyar Tavakoli, the medical director of intensive care unit and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage.

    Dr. Max Harry Weil, pioneer in critical care medicine and CPR, dies at 84 2011

  • Consumed with suspense, Shahriyar follows the jinni's example and postpones his bride's execution till the next day, so he can hear how the story turns out.

    Old Tales That Still Seduce 2009

  • Then the ­eldest daughter of the king's ­vizier, the erudite Shahrazad (or Scheherazade), volunteered to marry Shahriyar, with a scheme to stop the massacre.

    Old Tales That Still Seduce 2009

  • Shahrazad gets to the end of the story of the merchant and the jinni on the third night of her marriage: The tales of the three old men are so marvelous that the jinni (setting a good ­example for King Shahriyar) sets the merchant free.

    Old Tales That Still Seduce 2009

  • Ryan Inzana The basic narrative is a classic: Shahriyar, the ruler of a Muslim kingdom, was such a mistrustful misogynist that he wedded a different virgin every day, whom he deflowered and promptly ordered to be ­beheaded.

    Old Tales That Still Seduce 2009

  • She shook her sides and swayed her haunches, then put her hair on sword-hilt and went up to King Shahriyar, who embraced her as hospitable host embraceth guest, and threatened her in her ear with the taking of the sword; and she was even as saith of her the poet in these words: —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Shahriyar rose to look upon her and the wits of all present, men and women, were bewitched for that she was even as saith of her one of her describers117: —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Shahriyar also bade slaughter sheep and set up kitchens and made bride-feasts and fed all comers, high and low; and he gave alms to the poor and needy and extended his bounty to great and small.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In due time King Shahriyar summoned chroniclers and copyists and bade them write all that had betided him with his wife, first and last; so they wrote this and named it The

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Shahrazad went in to King Shahriyar and Dunyazad to King Shah Zaman and each of them solaced himself with the company of his beloved consort and the hearts of the folk were comforted.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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