Mother of the Believers
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Genres: Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality
Book Type: Paperback
Helpful Score: 2
I agree with the reviewer "Lenka".... but apart of the book being a subtle indoctrination tool of the glory and martyrdom of Islam, the book also is poorly written.
The reader can every now and then hit a pocket of nice storytelling, but you have to endure lots of poorly executed time line jumps, the narrator's (Aisha) cryptic, futuristic comments, which are meant to intrigue the reader, but instead all they do is frustrate, and annoy. Except for the side stories, such at the opening one, where Aisha is born, which will captivate the reader, by large the characters feel flat, and the politics (apart of the gruesomely descriptive tortures/deaths of the first martyrs) are just a big tangled mess, which makes the research behind the book feel poorly done. The book just feels so much more like a badly executed fiction then a retelling of well documented history. For example, when the "miracles" that Moses did are repeated by Muhammad, the author achieves the opposite effect with the way he presents it. Instead of being given the feeling of religious ecstasy and humbleness, the reader has no choice but laugh at the ridiculousness of the whole situation, as it is presented.
The "Authors Note" attacks Christianity, (claiming that Christianity has no substance as its history is not documented, and the rape of 9 yr olds in Islam is ok, because Marry's (a Christian) was pregnant at 12yrs. This tells me 2 things. The author is a Muslim because he implies that Mary had intercourse at age 12, (as Muslims do not believe that Marry's child was conceived without physical intercourse). Which in turn explains why the book is endorsed by Muslim Brotherhood, whose charter is quite an eye opener...
In short reading this book was just like dragging your feet in 2 feet of mud; the writing drags most of the time, the characters do NOT come alive, the politics are tangled mess, the narrator is annoying, and constant glory of Islam is rubbed in your face. If you want to read a truly remarkable book about Aisha, with all the cultural, human and dirty political interaction, get THE JEWEL OF MEDINA, THE SWORD OF MEDINA, it is a trilogy, and the third has not been published as yet. The book was blocked in every publishing house, but one, by Muslim Brotherhood, and it truly is worth reading.
The reader can every now and then hit a pocket of nice storytelling, but you have to endure lots of poorly executed time line jumps, the narrator's (Aisha) cryptic, futuristic comments, which are meant to intrigue the reader, but instead all they do is frustrate, and annoy. Except for the side stories, such at the opening one, where Aisha is born, which will captivate the reader, by large the characters feel flat, and the politics (apart of the gruesomely descriptive tortures/deaths of the first martyrs) are just a big tangled mess, which makes the research behind the book feel poorly done. The book just feels so much more like a badly executed fiction then a retelling of well documented history. For example, when the "miracles" that Moses did are repeated by Muhammad, the author achieves the opposite effect with the way he presents it. Instead of being given the feeling of religious ecstasy and humbleness, the reader has no choice but laugh at the ridiculousness of the whole situation, as it is presented.
The "Authors Note" attacks Christianity, (claiming that Christianity has no substance as its history is not documented, and the rape of 9 yr olds in Islam is ok, because Marry's (a Christian) was pregnant at 12yrs. This tells me 2 things. The author is a Muslim because he implies that Mary had intercourse at age 12, (as Muslims do not believe that Marry's child was conceived without physical intercourse). Which in turn explains why the book is endorsed by Muslim Brotherhood, whose charter is quite an eye opener...
In short reading this book was just like dragging your feet in 2 feet of mud; the writing drags most of the time, the characters do NOT come alive, the politics are tangled mess, the narrator is annoying, and constant glory of Islam is rubbed in your face. If you want to read a truly remarkable book about Aisha, with all the cultural, human and dirty political interaction, get THE JEWEL OF MEDINA, THE SWORD OF MEDINA, it is a trilogy, and the third has not been published as yet. The book was blocked in every publishing house, but one, by Muslim Brotherhood, and it truly is worth reading.
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