My Days in Mecca /

My Days in Mecca / / Ahmed Subai.

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. Contextualiz...

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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, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (125 p.)
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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

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