Last month, when Vladimir Putin was still massing troops on the Ukrainian border, I decided to read “Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” T.E. Lawrence’s memoir of the 1916-1918 Arab revolt against the ...

Pir Zia spoke about the tenets of Sufism and the ideology for the Seven Pillars House of Wisdom. Pir Zia is the spiritual leader of Sufi Order International, a Sufi order. He is the son of Pir Vilayat ...

I don't know how many times I've read Seven Pillars of Wisdom, but like the other "great books" that T.E. Lawrence wanted it to stand beside—Moby Dick, Thus Spake Zarathustra, and Crime and ...

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is not an easy book to read. To one not familiar with the details of northern Arabian geography, and few of us are, the multiplicity of place names is confusing.

And Seven Pillars convinced readers that Lawrence had written a masterpiece. Embarrassed that people might think he was making a huge profit, Lawrence declared that he would take no money from it ...