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The Desert : Or, the Life and Adventures of Jubair Wali al-Mammi / Albert Memmi ; translated from the French by Judith Roumani.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Memmi, Albert.
- Series:
- Middle East literature in translation.
- Middle East literature in translation
- Standardized Title:
- Desert. English
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (196 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first published in France in 1977, The Desert tells the story of al-Mammi, a young exiled prince of a now-destroyed Jewish kingdom in southern Morocco in the late fourteenth century. Fighting battles in the service of kings and narrowly escaping imprisonment, the prince travels the Islamic world absorbing lessons, often painfully, on how to govern himself, as well as a country. At that same time, al-Mammi engages upon a spiritual journey to obtain inner wisdom rather than material riches. Memmi chronicles the prince's fortunes as they rise and fall, drawing upon the traditions of Maghrebian storytelling and Arabian tales to offer a highly imaginative and allegorical novel that provocatively blends history with fiction.
- Contents:
- c; Memmi Final; bc
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780815653356
- 0815653352
- OCLC:
- 929784659
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