ʻĀlim, Rajāʼ.
My thousand & one nights : a novel of Mecca / My thousand and one nights Raja Alem & Tom McDonough. - 1st ed. - Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007. - xix, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Middle East literature in translation . - Middle East literature in translation. .
Introduction -- Cast of characters -- My thousand and one nights -- Glossary.
"The distinguished Middle Eastern author Raja Alem grew up in Mecca at a time when the holy city was on the cusp of transformation from medieval to modern. In this vanished Mecca, vividly brought to life again in My Thousand & One Nights, women hold center stage - especially Jummo, the wildly passionate daughter of Mohammed al-Baikwaly, the prominent sheik of the Zamzam Water Carriers." "This faraway time and setting become compellingly real through the intimate drama of Jummo's life, the tragic arc of her affair with her childhood sweetheart, and her lifelong love for the mysterious Sidi Wadhana, a more-than-human emissary from the netherworld. Jummo's world, veiled and invisible to outsiders until this telling of her story, has the feel of the true center of an Arabia that comes to us in many exotic and threatening guises. Jummo's Mecca is a different world, with different narrative strategies, but her dramatic problems are universal: how lethal is love, how dangerous is woman? And how sensual is the yearning for immortality?"--Jacket.
9780815608660 0815608667
2007014596
Women--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--Fiction.
Women.
Mecca (Saudi Arabia)--Fiction.
Saudi Arabia--Mecca.
Mekka
Fiction.
PJ7814.L53 / .S5313 2007
892/.736
My thousand & one nights : a novel of Mecca / My thousand and one nights Raja Alem & Tom McDonough. - 1st ed. - Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007. - xix, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Middle East literature in translation . - Middle East literature in translation. .
Introduction -- Cast of characters -- My thousand and one nights -- Glossary.
"The distinguished Middle Eastern author Raja Alem grew up in Mecca at a time when the holy city was on the cusp of transformation from medieval to modern. In this vanished Mecca, vividly brought to life again in My Thousand & One Nights, women hold center stage - especially Jummo, the wildly passionate daughter of Mohammed al-Baikwaly, the prominent sheik of the Zamzam Water Carriers." "This faraway time and setting become compellingly real through the intimate drama of Jummo's life, the tragic arc of her affair with her childhood sweetheart, and her lifelong love for the mysterious Sidi Wadhana, a more-than-human emissary from the netherworld. Jummo's world, veiled and invisible to outsiders until this telling of her story, has the feel of the true center of an Arabia that comes to us in many exotic and threatening guises. Jummo's Mecca is a different world, with different narrative strategies, but her dramatic problems are universal: how lethal is love, how dangerous is woman? And how sensual is the yearning for immortality?"--Jacket.
9780815608660 0815608667
2007014596
Women--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--Fiction.
Women.
Mecca (Saudi Arabia)--Fiction.
Saudi Arabia--Mecca.
Mekka
Fiction.
PJ7814.L53 / .S5313 2007
892/.736