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Published by Brand: Saqi Books, 2004
ISBN 10: 0863563503ISBN 13: 9780863563508
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. One morning Mustafa Ali Noman, a teacher in Baghdad, is arrested as he reaches the school gates. For the next fifteen months he witnesses countless scenes of torture as he himself is brutally interrogated, shuffled from prison to prison and barred from contacting his family.The question of his guilt or innocence clearly irrelevant, Mustafa must fight to retain a grip on reality. How do I know that I am not dreaming this? he asks.Mahmoud Saeeds devastating novel evokes the works of Kafka, Solzhenitsyn and Elie Wiesel in its account of wanton treatment by Saddam Husseins feared secret police. Narrated in a straightforward manner that makes it all the more vivid, Mustafas story testifies to the brutal arbitrariness of life under tyranny.
Published by Brand: Saqi Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 0863560822ISBN 13: 9780863560828
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. A critique of the work of Egyptian feminist, Nawal el-Saadawi. This work argues that the feminists of her novels, far from being shining examples of liberated womanhood, have unconsciously absorbed a male ideology that actually works against the interests of women.
Published by Brand: Saqi Books, 2024
ISBN 10: 0863563155ISBN 13: 9780863563157
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. After months of rain, a capital city full of birds, foxes and humans is sinking under the floods. The rich still live much as usual, in their big houses on higher ground, but the poor in their packed tower-blocks are becoming more and more cut off.
Published by Brand: Saqi Books, 2024
ISBN 10: 0863563155ISBN 13: 9780863563157
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. After months of rain, a capital city full of birds, foxes and humans is sinking under the floods. The rich still live much as usual, in their big houses on higher ground, but the poor in their packed tower-blocks are becoming more and more cut off.
Published by Brand: Saqi Books, 2000
ISBN 10: 0863560458ISBN 13: 9780863560453
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: used. Having taken the momentous decision to learn to read and write when in his early twenties, Choukri joins a children's class at the local state school in Tangier. Here he leads a life of desperate poverty. In order to survive, he does a bit of everything; when not at school, he hangs out in caf?s, drinking and smoking kif (it's cheaper than cigarettes!). On the days that he has a few coins in his pocket, he can afford a primitive doss house; otherwise he sleeps in mosques or on the street.A rich kaleidoscope of lowlife characters befriends him: the caf? habitu?s (some of whom are intellectuals and educated men) help him with his Arabic and widen his horizons; the local prostitutes take him home and provide a modicum of shelter and human warmth.On two occasions, he ends up in a mental hospital--the second time because he tries to kill a man who attempts to rape him. Another traumatic event is the long-drawn-out death of his mother, at which time Choukri returns to his village.Throughout his trials and vicissitudes, two things shine through: Choukri's determination to use literacy to rise above the cruel hand fate has dealt him; and his compassion for the normally despised human beings who share this life of 'the lowest of the low'.
Published by Brand: Saqi Books, 2004
ISBN 10: 1904063128ISBN 13: 9781904063124
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This is a translation of one of the best-known academic works of the late Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (1934-80). Written in plain language to introduce beginners to the science of the principles of Islamic jurisprudence, it is the first book in a series, organized in three levels of depth and comprehensiveness, to help readers gradually understand the subject. Originally entitled durus fi 'ilm al-usul (Discourses in Jurisprudence), but normally known as halaqat al-usul (Courses in Jurisprudence), the book was a revolutionary attempt to renovate the teaching material and curriculum of Shi'i seminaries throughout the world. Indeed, in many teaching centers it replaced the standard text al-ma'alim, by Shaykh Hasan b. Shahid al-Thani, which had been taught to students of jurisprudence since the 12thcentury AH.
Published by Brand: Saqi Books, 2004
ISBN 10: 1904063128ISBN 13: 9781904063124
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: new. This is a translation of one of the best-known academic works of the late Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (1934-80). Written in plain language to introduce beginners to the science of the principles of Islamic jurisprudence, it is the first book in a series, organized in three levels of depth and comprehensiveness, to help readers gradually understand the subject. Originally entitled durus fi 'ilm al-usul (Discourses in Jurisprudence), but normally known as halaqat al-usul (Courses in Jurisprudence), the book was a revolutionary attempt to renovate the teaching material and curriculum of Shi'i seminaries throughout the world. Indeed, in many teaching centers it replaced the standard text al-ma'alim, by Shaykh Hasan b. Shahid al-Thani, which had been taught to students of jurisprudence since the 12thcentury AH.
Published by Brand: Saqi Books, 2000
ISBN 10: 0863569331ISBN 13: 9780863569333
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Saqi Books, 2004
ISBN 10: 0863563503ISBN 13: 9780863563508
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Saqi Books, 2005
ISBN 10: 0863565190ISBN 13: 9780863565199
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: new.
Published by Brand: Saqi Books, 2008
ISBN 10: 0863566677ISBN 13: 9780863566677
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: new.