Wazir

I'm dying to see my father's old house in Wazir Akbar Khan where I grew up and the hill north of the house with its abandoned graveyard where my brother and I used to play.

Khaled Hosseini - An interview with author 2010

Threadgill Angus al-Wazir is a part Scottish, part Arabian airman of the Royal Navy who has been dispatched to help manage a project of epic proportions: to bore a tunnel through the Wall and reach the Southern Hemisphere.

REVIEW: Escapement by Jay Lake 2008

I would not do this thing, save to serve thee, and soon shalt thou sight that it is right; and if thou accept my advice thou shalt be saved, otherwise thou shalt be destroyed even as a certain Wazir who acted treacherously by the young

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Ajib answered, “The Wazir is my father in very deed.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The Wazir is thy father, not mine! who then is my father?

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

So I girt my middle with them both and behold, the girdles became one girdle; and this, O Wazir, is my dream and what I saw when my sleep was deepest.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The villain Wazir made no reply hiding the truth but said, “Hand me the second phial, that I may drink what is therein, so haply I may be made whole of this ailing in my loins.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

At the end of the year, the King summoned his son Kanmakan and the Wazir Dandan and said, O my son, after my death this Wazir is thy sire; for know that I am about to leave this house of life transitory for the house of eternity.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then the King bade decorate the city and sent to fetch the Wazir from the place of duresse.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

We know that the Wazir is thy grandfather, the father of thy mother, Sitt al-Husn, and not thy father.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006