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According to Book Marks, the book received a "rave" consensus, based on thirty-one critics: twenty-five "rave", five "positive", and one "mixed". [7] [8]Dwight Garner, in his review for The New York Times, praised Homeland Elegies as "a beautiful novel about an American son and his immigrant father".
The journal Asian Ethnography published a review by Karen G. Ruffle which laments the lack of a concluding essay, but praises the book for providing "compelling material, ritual, and documentary evidence of how the Muharram ritual complex has taken “on new shapes and guises” outside of South Asia and has become an integral part of non-Shi ...
Mourning of Muharram (Arabic: عزاء محرم, romanized: ʿAzāʾ Muḥarram; Persian: عزاداری محرم, romanized: ʿAzādārī-i Muḥarram; Azerbaijani: Məhərrəmlik, South Azerbaijani: محرمليک) is a set of religious rituals observed by Shia Muslims during the month of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar.
The work gives a detailed account of the colonization of the Caribbean and the territories in present-day Colombia and Venezuela.It describes the settlement companies and foundation of cities as well as vivid depictions of indigenous cultures, such as the Muisca, and natural history, making this text an important early chronicle of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
Muharram marks the start of the Islamic New Year, and a period of mourning for Shia Muslims. Send these Muharram messages to anyone observing the sacred month. 25 Muharram Quotes and Wishes to Share
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Sven Birkerts (born 21 September 1951) is an American essayist and literary critic.He is best known for his book The Gutenberg Elegies (1994), which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the "electronic culture."
In like manner, English-speaking poets, whether Muslim, Christian, have also made significant contributions to produce elegies for Imam Hussain and the tragic incidents of Karbala. [ 6 ] See also