Night Journey
Night Journey may refer to: * Isra and Mi'raj, a Night Journey taken by Muhammad in 621, an event of major importance in Islam * ''Night Journey'', 1941 spy thriller by Winston Graham * ''Night Journey'' (film), a 1987 Turkish drama film * ''Night Journey'' (1938 film) directed by Oswald Mitchell * Night Journeys, 1979 children's book by Avi (Edward Irving Wortis) * ''Night Journey'' (ballet), a Martha Graham ballet * ''The Night Journey'' (novel), a 1981 novel by Kathryn Lasky See also * Night Flight (other) Night Flight or Nightflight may refer to: * a flight during the night, see red-eye flight Music * ''Night Flight'' (Justin Hayward album), 1980 * ''Night Flight'' (Gil Fuller album), 1965 * Night Flight, Op. 19, a 1964 tone poem by Samuel ...

Isra And Mi'raj
The Israʾ and Miʿraj ( ar, الإسراء والمعراج, ') are the two parts of a Night Journey that, according to Islam, the Islamic prophet Muhammad (570–632) took during a single night around the year 621 (1 BH – 0 BH). Within Islam it signifies both a physical and spiritual journey. A brief sketch of the story is in the 17th chapter of the Quran, called ''al-Isra''', while greater detail is found in the ''hadith''; later collections of the reports, teachings, deeds and sayings of Muhammad. In the ''Israʾ'' part of the journey, Muhammad is said to have traveled on the back of Buraq to the Al-Aqsa Mosque (i.e. the Temple Mount) where he leads other prophets in prayer. In the next part of the journey, the ''Miʿraj'', he ascends into heaven where he individually greets the prophets and later, speaks to Allah, who gives Muhammad instructions to take back to the Muslims regarding the details of prayer. The journey and ascent are marked as one of the most cele ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Winston Graham
Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003), was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other works, including contemporary thrillers, period novels, short stories, non-fiction and plays. Winston Graham was the author's pseudonym until he changed his name by deed poll from Grime to Graham on 7 May 1947. Biography Graham was born in Victoria Park, Manchester, on 30 June 1908. As a child, Winston contracted pneumonia, and on medical advice was educated at a local day school rather than Manchester Grammar School which his father had in mind for him. Graham's father, Albert Grime, was a prosperous tea importer and grocer, but became incapacitated by a stroke. When he was 17 years old, Winston moved to Perranporth, Cornwall, where he lived for 34 years. He had wanted to be a writer from an early age and, following the death of his father, he was supported by his mo ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Night Journey (film)
Night Journey may refer to: * Isra and Mi'raj, a Night Journey taken by Muhammad in 621, an event of major importance in Islam * ''Night Journey'', 1941 spy thriller by Winston Graham * Night Journey (film), ''Night Journey'' (film), a 1987 Turkish drama film * Night Journey (1938 film), ''Night Journey'' (1938 film) directed by Oswald Mitchell * Night Journeys, 1979 children's book by Avi (Edward Irving Wortis) * Night Journey (ballet), ''Night Journey'' (ballet), a Martha Graham ballet * The Night Journey (novel), ''The Night Journey'' (novel), a 1981 novel by Kathryn Lasky See also

* Night Flight (other) {{disambiguation ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Night Journey (1938 Film)
Night Journey may refer to: * Isra and Mi'raj, a Night Journey taken by Muhammad in 621, an event of major importance in Islam * ''Night Journey'', 1941 spy thriller by Winston Graham * ''Night Journey'' (film), a 1987 Turkish drama film * ''Night Journey'' (1938 film) directed by Oswald Mitchell Oswald Albert Mitchell (1890 - April 27, 1949) was a British film director who directed several of the Old Mother Riley series of films.

Oswald Mitchell
Oswald Albert Mitchell (1890 - April 27, 1949) was a British film director who directed several of the Old Mother Riley series of films."Mitchell, Oswald"
BFI Film & TV Database

Selected filmography

* ''The Guns of Loos'' (1928, producer) * ''Such Is the Law (1930 film), Such Is the Law'' (1930, producer) * ''Danny Boy (1934 film), Danny Boy'' (1934) *''Cock o' The North'' (1935) * ''King of Hearts (1936 film), King of Hearts'' (1936) * ''Love Up the Pole'' (1936, producer) * ''Variety Parade'' (1936) * ''Old Mother Riley (film), Old Mother Riley'' (1937) * ''Lily of Laguna (film), Lily of Laguna'' (1938) *''Night Journey (1938 film)'' *''Little Dolly Daydream'' (1938) * ''Almost a Gentleman (1938 film), Almost a Gentleman'' (1938) * ''Old Mother Riley in Paris'' (1938) *''Music Hall ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Night Journeys
Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23, 1937), better known by the pen name Avi,Sandra Q. Williams, American Library Association: . November/December 2005 is an American author of young adult and children's literature. He is a winner of the Newbery Medal and twice one of the runners-up (Newbery Honor). Biography Avi and his twin sister were born in Brooklyn, New York to Joseph Wortis, an American-Jewish psychiatrist of Russian-Jewish and Alsatian-Jewish descent, and Helen Wortis, a social worker. When he was one year old, his sister gave him the nickname "Avi".About Avi
avi-writer.com Two of Avi's grandfathers were writers, and one grandmother was a playwright. In interviews, he recalled his mother reading to him and his sister every night, and going to the
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Night Journey (ballet)
''Night Journey'' is a Martha Graham ballet performed to music by William Schuman with costumes designed by Graham and a set by Isamu Noguchi. Commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation of the Library of Congress, the work premiered on May 3, 1947, at Cambridge High School in Boston, Massachusetts. ''Night Journey'' is the third of Graham's dances derived from Greek mythology, following '' Cave of the Heart'' and ''Errand into the Maze''. Theme, synopsis and original cast Graham based the 30-minute-long ballet on a fragment of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Original program notes explain "the action takes place in Jocasta's heart at the instant when she recognizes the ultimate terms of her destiny." The original cast members were Graham in the role of Queen Jocasta and Erick Hawkins as King Oedipus. Mark Ryder as the blind Seer ( Tiresias) was accompanied by the Daughters of the Night ( Furies), a chorus of six women: Pearl Lang, Yuriko, Ethel Winter, Helen McG ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

The Night Journey (novel)
''The Night Journey'' is a 1981 novel by Kathryn Lasky. Plot overview Nana Sashie (an Ashkenazi Jewish woman born in Mykolaiv in what is now Ukraine) tells her great-grandchild, Rachel, of her escape from the Russian Empire during the early 1900s, when pogroms were common. Nana Sashie refuses to eat for a week with the intention of dying, and passes away. Before moving to Minnesota, Nana Sashie was married to Reuven Bloom for 40 years. Open Court Reading took the book and shortened it, giving Rachel the name "Rache". The story starts with a background of the story and the story from Ed's gift – a samovar – and Nana Sashie looking upset. When Rache sneaks into Nana Sashie's room to look at the samovar, she ends up hearing Nana's tale. Awards 1982: National Jewish Book Award The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1944, is an organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature.
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]