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Rites of assent : two novellas

Title
Rites of assent : two novellas / Abd al-Hakim Qasim ; translated with notes by Peter Theroux ; introduction by Samia Mehrez.
Author
Qāsim, ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm.
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Theroux, Peter.
  • Qāsim, ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm.
Description
xx, 172 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
Two novellas by the late Egyptian writer. The first, Al-Mahdi, is on the forcible conversion of a Christian to Islam, while Good News from Afterlife is on a man who meets angels after his death.
Series Statement
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Uniform Title
  • Maḥdī. English
  • Border lines (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Alternative Title
Maḥdī.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Arabic fiction > 20th century > Translations into English
  • English fiction > Translations from Arabic
  • Arabic fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Translations
  • Fiction.
  • Romans.
Contents
Introduction / Samia Mehrez -- Al-Mahdi -- Good news from the afterlife.
ISBN
  • 1566393531
  • 9781566393539
  • 156639354X
  • 9781566393546
LCCN
95014849
OCLC
  • ocm32347511
  • 32347511
  • SCSB-2059410
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library