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List 2007
The Holy Book of Judaism; History, Origins and Teachings
By Ahmed Ibesch
When I read such things I thank Allah for teaching me how to read. The book is taking me to A Hebrew spheres. How strange the similarity is with the Islamic teachings! The book is really interesting. Thanks for the translator for such a book. Hoping he could translate the whole Talmud in the future.
******************** By Amin Maalouf
It is a historical novel about Omar Khayyam and his famous Rubaiyaat and also about Assassin sect.
Actually, the novel is so delicious
******************** Las visiones de Lucrecia (Lucrecia's Dreams) By José María Merino
A novel about a girl who saw visions that
came true in Inquisition times. The novel is
cold a little with some repetition.
******************** The Silence's Beauties: In the root of the hidden and the suppressed By Ibrhaim Mahmod
The idea, which is a study about silence, is very beautiful, however, it
is ruined by the style. I find it so artificial and pedantic, like the
local news
******************** The Idiot By Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's a cute novel. Frankly, I don't see him
as an idiot,
but the Mr. Perfect in person. I wish I met such an idiot.
******************** The princess who danced to kill a prophet
By
Ralph Anderson You know how I hate her: Salma vs. Salome The book is about her life, written in a very childish way, at the end the writer manipulated the truth making her danced to save the Prophet. I believe even the writer were tempted by her dance!
Thank God I am not a man, or else such silly
movements would have washed my brain too
******************* Avicenna or the Road to Ispahan By Gilbert Sinoué
It's a historical novel about Avicenna's
life.
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Before The Sun Is Folded up By Jose Javier Gallego - Abu Bakr
This the forth book by Abu Bakr I've read. It is an insight into Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the light of transmission- how the message of Allah (tawhid) has transmitted from one religion to another during the course of history. It's style is different and original, especially for some sketches.
******************** The Name of The Rose By Umberto Eco
it is a very famous novel; a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327. It is so captivating! When I finished it I watched the movie by Sean Connery. It is interesting too though it changed some events.
******************** Losing my Religion: A Call for Help By Jeffrey Lang
In First chapter he continued his talk he started in his previous book (Even Angels Ask); about the meaning of creation, the meaning of being human, why Allah wanted us to be as we are, with our ability of good and evil, on earth... I can't express through words how this book made me feel...
Just
I closed it and kissed the picture of that wonderful man who wrote it.
If he were near me, I would hug and kiss him out of happiness...
I even wrote him a very long letter thanking him for his amazing book.
This book is
my favorite book at all... bye bye Demian's Herman Hesse
Since so long I have never felt in this way until I forget it; An understanding teacher refines me by his wisdom, gives me a helping hand, raises me, promotes me, guides me, answers me, explains to me. Simply, just he teaches me. Since so long I have never felt a role model who I long to be like, even to surpass him- may he pleases by me then blesses me... Since long time ago, a very long lonely time ago, I haven't been overwhelmed by a paternal tenderness and insight such this....
******************** The Dairy of a Jewish from Damascus By Ibrahim Al Jabin
It is the dairy of the writer, though he is not a Jewish, with his two friends; the Muslim shaikh and the Jewish.
Simply, neither did I like the book nor did
I hate, just No comment
******************** The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan
It is a travel book to Volga Bulgaria in 921. However, this is the "false" one, which is called (The Dead Eaters), in which Ibn Fadlan reached Northland. Researchers believe that it is not authentic.
******************** Madame Bovary By Gustave Flaubert
It is about a woman who loathed her marital
life then she cheated her husband! Wait!
Don't judge her before reading the novel.
Especially if you know that divorce wasn't
allowed that days in France. No doubt
cheating is unforgivable matter, however
when the whole society, with its beliefs and
priorities, is corrupted, then it will be
unfair to condemn one person, since the
whole society is guilty. In my opinion, this
novel (Madame Bovary) shed the light on how
the society was, if not still, disgusting... ******************** Le Harem Européen By Fatima Mernissi
She also
mentioned an interesting issue which is the
western Harem.
******************* Out of Place By Edward Said
Its his memories of his childhood and adolescence. Interesting book and thoughts... and the style of Edward makes it more pleasurable...
******************** The Orange Girl By Jostein Gaarder
A novel about a teenager receiving letters from his dead father... thrilling novel fits with teenagers with a small touch of profoundness... You know, Jostein is the writer of Sophie's World...
******************** Eulogy of Memory By Turky Muhammad Assloob
A quiet nice
novel... I like that the heroine is called
Salma
******************** Animal Farm By George Orwell
A political novel. The comrades animals revolted against human, then they liberated the land and animals.... the shiny slogans, communism, liberation day, the" coercive" voluntary work... etc
How
cunning Orwell was!
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Don Quijote By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
You know its a classical famous novel about the crazy Don Quijote's adventure who thought himself a knight. Anyway, I read it because some Spanish friend called me colonialized Syrian just because I didn't read it. Now I read it; I don't think it adds anything to me. I haven't become more civilized nor better human. How shallow his criterion was! By the way my copy was illustrated by Gustave Dore such as
Anyway, It's not the amount of information but the good manners what matters...
******************* The First Adventure By Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse is my favorite writer, after Jeffery Lang of course. I almost read all his works. This book is a collection of short stories. Analyzing the style it is obvious that he wrote it when he was young, because its dreamy and romantic, while his style in his old age became more profound and full of wisdom, which I like the most... Anyway, it is a nice light work...
******************** Hristiyan Gülü (The Christian Rose) By Emine Şenlikoğlu
A novel about a Turkish girl who was confused between following Islam and Jehovah's Witnesses... Despite the simplicity of the style, the idea is original... It's suitable for adolescents and teenagers...
The most
beautiful thing is the happy ending. I adore
happy endings
******************** Adventures in Arabia
By William B. Seabrook
William was an American traveler who loved the orient, so he traveled to it to live his oriental dream. This book about his journey and adventures in middle east in 1927. The different in this orientalistic book is that there isn't that arrogant superior nasty tone of westerner towards the oriental objects. In contrast, he seemed a man in search for the truth, so he kept asking for the religions and sects. Also, he was very polite with his hosts.
It is really
an interesting book
******************** The Grand Shami's Tale By Kazem Daghestani
An old novel was printed in 1972. I found it forgotten covered by dust on some roof in the book-shop. It is about a Damascene Lady three hundreds years ago and her life in a grand Shami house where the whole family lived in with...
The first
impression came to me after finishing the
book was thanking the Lord that I am here in
this time not in that time... I felt as if I
had run away from the prison
May Allah shed His mercy on women... How they suffered a lot!
******************** By Edward Said
It is one of the most important books about Orientalism. PhD. Abdul-nabi Isstaif told us once that this book changed the face of history. It is said "before Said's book... after Said's Book".
I tried to red it in English but I found it
impossible. Actually, I could hardly
understand it in Arabic, that if I really
get it.
I felt I became smarter after reading it,
though I have always been smart
Anyway, I believe I need to re-read it after few years to get it more.
******************** The Pilgrimage By Paulo Coelho
Another novel by Paulo with simple style and touch of profoundness. A Journey of Pilgrimage made by the narrator.
It is not
woow... actually I felt bored somehow
******************** The Walker's Reflection By Abdulwahid AlYahyai
75 short articles full of questions, thoughts, and reflections... It is nice, easy and thought - provoking. Thanks for the writer...
******************** My Life & Oneiromancy By Nader Zain Addin
Silly book
about oneiromancy. The writer exaggerated a
lot. Though I believe in dreams but I didn't
like the book because it depends on
superstitions.
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My Name is
Red
The main characters in the novel are miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire, and the events revolve around the murder of one of the painters. I describe the novel as evil one. It dragged me to the bottom and exhausted me.
Despite the
fact that the style is captivating, Orhan's
philosophy is intense malice. He knows how
beatifies the ugliness, makes you desire the
abnormality and repulsiveness. A kind of
black comedy... a grotesque
From now on I
will be scared each time I look to such
oriental miniature
I just don't know what to say... I sighed deeply when I finished it
They say
Orhan is talented... Yes indeed, but
talented as a devil
******************** Risibles Amours (Laughable Loves) By Milan Kundera
Collection of short erotic stories, so called (Laughable Loves), though they are neither funny nor there is any touch of love in them.
They are only
about Don Juan men, which I loath the most.
The black philosophy of Kundera which repulses me, is so ugly, nasty and disgusting.
I really hate
the book
******************** Syrian Home-Life By Rev. Henry Harris Jessup
I found the book online. Its is a typical orientalistic book written in 1874. His writer was a Protestant American missionary came to Syria, i.e. Lebanon and Syria, who wrote about what he saw. Did I say what he saw! It is actually his fantasies. The book is funny and sick.
Take this story
from the book: "In the beginning of the
world, Satan came down to the earth with
seven bags of lies, which he intended to
distribute in the seven kingdoms of the
earth. The first night after he reached the
earth he slept in Syria, and open one of the
bags, letting the lies loose in the land But
while he was asleep, someone came and opened
all the other bags! So that Syria got more
than her share!" Anyway, it is also full of historical events about that time. Though the superior racism tone, I like the book. It's amusing to see how such people think about you, while you laugh about their naiveness.
******************** Cartas a un Joven Novelista (Letters to a Young Novelist) By Mario Vargas Llosa
It is 12 letters from the writer to a young man who wants to be a novelist, advising and directing him. Its interesting and useful book. Te most beautiful thing is the last two lines of the book: "Dear friend, I am trying to tell you to forget everything I have said about the novelistic form, and start writing right now the novels."
Salma Al-Helali
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. It
encourages me to read the Rubaiyaat in Arabic, translated by Ahmed Rami,
and in English, translated by
Actually, I have resisted leaving it many times...
he may have been genius in medicine, however I didn't find in him a
charming character, at all
However, it is not his fault but mine and
Sinoué. I, because I thought he was more
than a human being like anybody else, and
Sinoué because he only focused on what he
desired. I felt I was fooled.
Yes, the west has its own harem in its
way...
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Anyway thanks for the writer... hoping for
him a successful future...
