My Days in Mecca / / Ahmed Subai.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Subai, Ahmed,
• MitwirkendeR: Akers, Deborah S.,; Bagader, Abubaker A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (125 p.)

Ahmad Suba'i's autobiography is the story not only of an Arab boy growing up in Saudi Arabia at the turn of the twentieth century--to become a noted writer, educator, and social critic--but also of a place, Mecca, and of the world of the traditional quranic school of the time. Contextualizing the work, the editors have provided information about Suba'i's life and work, an essay on traditional quranic education in twentieth-century Mecca, and a glossary of Arabic terms.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors’ Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Life and Works of Ahmad Suba’i (1905-1984) -- The Kuttab: Traditional Quranic Education in Early Twentieth-Century Mecca -- My Days in Mecca -- In the Kuttab -- The Fortunate Ones -- Abjad-Hawaz (the ABCs) -- Celebration in the Kuttab -- Auntie Hassinah -- Kuttabs and Teacherss -- With the Reciters of the Quran -- ‘Abbas: The Classroom Bully -- Perfect Memorization -- In the Advanced School -- Sitti: My Grandmother -- Recklessness -- Bad Luck -- Literature and Knowledge -- A Turning Point -- The Teaching Chair -- Between Journalism and Literature -- In the Sawt al-Hijaz Newspaper -- Letters and Points -- Glossary -- About the Book