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Mawsim al-Hijrah ilâ al-Shamâl is considered to be an important turning point in the development of postcolonial narratives that focus on the encounter between East and West. [1] The novel has been translated into over twenty languages. [2] Salih was fluent in both English and Arabic, but chose to pen this novel in Arabic. [3]
Tayeb Salih – Season of Migration to the North (موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال, Mawsim al-Hijrah ilâ al-Shamâl) Giorgio Scerbanenco. A Private Venus; Traitors to All; Leonardo Sciascia – A ciascuno il suo; Paul Scott – The Jewel in the Crown; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Cancer Ward; Adela Rogers St. Johns – Tell No Man
In 1966, Salih published his novel Mawsim al-Hijrah ilâ al-Shimâl (Season of Migration to the North), for which he is best known. It was first published in the Beirut journal Hiwâr . The main concern of the novel is with the impact of British colonialism and European modernity on rural African societies in general, and on Sudanese culture ...
Mawsim or moussem (Arabic: موسم), waada, or raqb, is the term used in the Maghreb to designate an annual regional festival in which worshippers usually combine the religious celebration of local Marabouts or Sufi Tariqas, with various festivities and commercial activities. These are very popular events, often attended by people from very ...
He also wrote a famous polemic book in Arabic debating Judaism known as Ifḥām al-Yahūd (Confutation of the Jews).A Latin tract translated from Arabic and later translated into many Western languages, titled Epistola Samuelis Marrocani ad R. Isaacum contra errores Judaeorum, claims to be authored by a certain R. Samuel of Fez "about the year 1072" and is erroneously connected with him.
The migration to Abyssinia (Arabic: الهجرة إلى الحبشة, romanized: al-hijra ʾilā al-habaša), also known as the First Hijra (الهجرة الأولى, al-hijrat al'uwlaa), was an episode in the early history of Islam, where the first followers of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (they were known as the Sahabah, or the companions) migrated from Arabia due to their persecution by ...
Under the Islamic prophet Muhammad, beginning in 622, and the first three caliphs, Abu Bakr (r. 632–634), Umar (r. 634–644) and Uthman (r. 644–656), Medina served as the capital of the early Muslim state, which by Uthman's time came to rule over an empire spanning Arabia, most of the Persian Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine territories of Syria and Egypt.
After she had ruled for 30 years, her son-in-law Muhammad al-Hassan al-Mandri, who was the governor of Fnideq, overthrew her in October 1542. [21] According to the Yemen Times, "she was stripped of her property and power". [18] Accepting her fate, al-Hurra retired to Chefchaouen, where she died in 1552. [2]