- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: Beaufort Books; 1 edition (15 Oct 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0825305187
- ISBN-13: 978-0825305184
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.1 x 3.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 221,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Born A'isha bint Abi Bakr in seventh century Arabia, she would become the favorite wife of the Prophet Muhammad, and one of the most revered women in the Muslim faith. Married at the age of nine, "The Jewel of Medina" illuminates the difficult path A'isha confronted, from her youthful dreams of becoming a Bedouin warrior, to her life as the beloved wife and confident of the founder of Islam. Extensively researched and elegantly crafted, "The Jewel of Medina" presents the beauty and harsh realities of life in an age long past, during a time of war, enlightenment, and upheaval. At once a love story, a history lesson, and a coming-of-age tale, "The Jewel of Medina" provides humanizing glimpses into the origins of the Islamic faith, and the nature of love, through the eyes of a truly unforgettable heroine.
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By A. Reader "A. Reader" (Where I'm at) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Jewel of Medina (Advance Reader's Edition) Edition: Reprint (Hardcover)
Because publication of this book was pulled on the grounds of the furore it might create.Some call it censorship, others cowardice, but the one thing Random House will not do, apparently, is let us Amazon buyers and readers make up our own minds. Go do something about this, or go back to sleep.
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Freedom of Speech Does Include the Freedom to Disagree - That's the Whole Point,
By maytrees (Wimbledon) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Jewel of Medina: A Novel (Hardcover)
I bought this book for the same reason as I bought the first edition ofRushdie's Satanic Verses. Attempts to murder Rushdie seemed to me to be an attempt to kill off the right to freedom of speech. Setting fire to the home/office of the London publisher who decided to publish the Jewel of Medina is in a similar category. Buying the books is the best way of preserving the freedom. Satanic Verses as a work of literature took some reading and in the end I couldn't see what all the fuss was about. At first glance The Jewel of Medina seems far more light weight a novel. Not something which God is likely to be too bothered by, any more than he is by say "Father Ted" or the "Life of Brian". I shall try to read it and may be post again but buying the book is the best response to those who under the guise of religion, seek to bully, using threats of violence and even death.
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This review is from: The Jewel of Medina (Advance Reader's Edition) Edition: Reprint (Hardcover)
Don't Believe Everything You ReadFirst thing in the a.m. after publication of Asra Q. Nomani's editorial about "The Jewel of Medina," misinformation abounds. But I can't talk about the publisher's decision not to publish -- not until Random House/Ballantine says so, for reasons I can't disclose ;-(. But I can correct at least one inaccuracy: My book is not a "bodice-ripper," as one blogger (who obviously hadn't read the book) called it. Nor, in my opinion, is it particularly "racy," as Ms. Nomani, who HAS read the book, described it. Denise Spellberg, the UT professor who started all this, called it "soft porn" -- which makes me feel like a literary master, able to write a pornographic novel without sex scenes! Bloggers are going wild, reading all kinds of things into Ms. Nomani's excellent opinion piece. Some believe the Random House assertion that several people warned of potential terrorist attack. If so, that's news to me. The only one I was told about was Ms. Spellberg. Ironically, I've been castigated in some of these blogs by writers who haven't read the book and who mis-read the editorial piece. Being called an "Islamopanderer" is the most ironic. All I did was try to portray A'isha, Muhammad's child bride
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