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"Come, sit by me," says Grandmother. "Take this chalk in your hand. Now draw a dot and concentrate all your energy into this one dot. It is the beginning and the end, the navel of the world."So Fawzia Al-Rawi describes her grandmother's first lesson about the ancient craft of Oriental dance. Grandmother's...

Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded combines a mordant satire on seventeenth-century Egyptian rural society with a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day. In...

Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded combines a mordant satire on seventeenth-century Egyptian rural society with a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day. In...

An explanation of a short treatise on the illustrious Sooratul-Faatihah. This oft-repeated soorah (chapter) is a pillar of the salaah (prayer). Deep and virtuous in its meaning, the explanation uncovers its names and virtues, its comprising of the two types of du'aa (du'aa al-Ibaadah and du'aa al-mas'alah),...

Written in mid-17th century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on “rural” verse, mocking the pretensions and absurdities of uneducated poets from Egypt’s countryside. The interest in the countryside as a cultural, social, economic, and religious locus in its...

Over the past three decades, through rises and falls in power, regime repression and exclusion, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has endured, proving more resilient than any other Islamist movement in the world. In this book Khalil al-Anani explores the factors that have enabled the Brotherhood to...

5 Oeuvres de François-Réal Angers Ce livre numérique présente une collection de 5 oeuvres de François-Réal Angers éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes...

When Christendom was groping amid the superstitions of the Dark Ages, and the Norsemen were ravaging the western part of Europe, and the princes of Islam were cutting each other’s throats in the name of Allah and his Prophet, Abu’l-Ala’l-Ma’arri was waging his bloodless war against the follies...

2003: Arturo Muñoz es un Gran Maestro ajedrecista que se enfrenta al peor desafío de su vida. Un asesino en serie apodado Cástor lo ha retado a una partida en Londres, en la que cada pieza capturada implica la muerte de inocentes.1970: La segunda trama discurre en los años setenta y relata episodios...

'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah (d. 923 H/1517 AD) of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. A mystic and prolific poet and writer, 'A'ishah composed more works in Arabic than any other woman before the twentieth century. Yet despite her extraordinary literary and religious achievements,...

Uttering the Muslim’s testimony of faith, the first pillar of Islām, “Lā ilāha illallāh” (There is none worthy of worship except Allāh), is very easy on the tongue, but many of us do not understand the depth of its meaning or the implications associated with uttering it. Or if we do, many...

Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fariyaq,’ alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon...

In this valuable article you find the real meaning of Zakat "Alms giving" . What is the high wisdom behind this pillar? Why the Almighty Al'lah, through His Divine books, has ordered his people to do it? Actually there is a high benefit through giving Zakat, going according to this pillar...

Meydanlar ve bütün köşeler, doğruları söylediği için dokuz köyden kovulduğunu söyleyen insanlarla dolu. Can sıkıntısından Fransızca kursuna gidenlere, dişlerine tel taktırmış olduğu için utanan ve mecbur kalmadıkça konuşmamaya çalışan genç kızlara, kahvehane köşelerinde...