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Minaret

المنارة

Aboulela's novel of a Sudanese diplomat's daughter turned London servant who finds Islam seriously in exile.

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1990200020102020

LiteratureMuslim minorities under non-Muslim ruleWomen

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موجز

رواية ليلى أبوليلة (2005م)؛ نجوى ابنة عائلة سودانية غنية تسقط من القصر إلى المطبخ في لندن، فتجد في جماعة المسجد ما لم تجده في القصر. 1

الأثر

من أوائل الروايات الإنجليزية التي تعرض الإسلام اليومي للمهاجرين من الداخل بلا نبرة اعتذار ولا تزكية. 1

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Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi's mission to kill Asma' bint Marwan

Ibn Ishaq relates from Abdullah ibn al-Harith ibn al-Fudayl from his father that Asma' bint Marwan, of Banu Umayya ibn Zayd and married to Yazid ibn Zayd of Banu Khatma, showed hypocrisy after Abu Afak's killing and composed verses reviling Islam and its people and inciting against the Prophet, which Hassan ibn Thabit answered; when it reached the Prophet he said 'is there no one to deal with the daughter of Marwan for me?' Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi heard him, went to her house that night and killed her, and the Prophet told him 'you have helped God and His Messenger, Umayr', and that no two goats would butt heads over her. Ibn Ishaq says that day was the first on which Islam became strong among Banu Khatma.