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107 tulosta hakusanalla Dami Alvarez
Under the Turban: Sex and Passion Tales from the Haram City
Muhammed Al Da'mi
Createspace Press
2016
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By virtue of invasive, transient visionary perceptions which her sub/consciousness makes, shuttling to and from the past, Sarah incorporates, then projects the one-of-its kind saga of the Babylonian captivity Jews, tripping back and forth to their history's milestones: from the episode of their epic, though torturous march to Babylonia, chained, and yoke-lined by their ruthless invaders, via the humiliating episodes of the irremovable tokens they carried for their inconvertibility to Islam, to the farhood infamous episode, and the later Baghdad gallows. By squeezing her people's narrative into a unique 'History of Pain', Sarah distills and bodies forth the dilemma of Iraq's Jewry into a revealing, and at times shocking story, incarnating Sisyphus' futility as an archetype, not of the "Wandering Jew" only, but of "Man the Wanderer".
The value of Arab-Islamic history in Western thought has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now greater than ever. This book investigates the intellectual motives and compulsions that hide behind the nineteenth-century British and American elite's invocation of this history. The touchstones are many - the prophet, the Caliphate, the conquests, and Muslim Spain to mention a few. Al-Da'mi discusses such issues in an attempt not only to show their relevance to domestic problems, but also to trace the roots of an idea and to forecast future crises and dialogues. The book's finale demonstrates the unbridgeable gap between Eastern and Western approaches to the Islamic past.