In the eighth-century CE the Abbasids undertook to collect the wisdom of the world in their new capital at Baghdad
In the eighth-century CE the Abbasids undertook to collect the wisdom of the world in their new capital at Baghdad. This project started with the second Abbasid caliph, al-Mansur (“the Conqueror,” r. 754–74),
Rituals are the password and key to the wonderful novel (The Devil of Al-Khidr) by the writer Muhammad Ibrahim Taha, those rituals that start from the first scene and never go away through the pages of the novel, which relies on a rural popular memory.
But before entering the novelistic text, we must question the title, as Al-Khidr in the
Kalyam Sharif is an important village in Rawalpindi’s Gujar Khan Tehsil of Pakistan’s Punjab province
Kalyam Sharif is an important village in Rawalpindi‘s Gujar Khan Tehsil, situated about 3 km off the Grand Trunk Road, near Mandra. The village is famous for the shrine complex of Khwaja Fazaluddin Chishti Sabiri Kalyami,
I almost claim that the art of autobiography in Arabic literature has been greatly wronged by its writers, who have taken it out of the framework of history, documentation, and written confession, into the space of beautifying the writing selves, improving faded images, and even inventing fake histories that rely on ignorance of the
The poet, critic and artist Mohamed Okasha faces our creative life with more than one mask. We can describe these masks accurately when we read his poetic and prose texts, follow his critical analyses, or stand before his sculptural works.
How to Raise a Cloud, Book Cover
If we praise words by describing them as painted with
