Table of Contents 4
\nEpigraph 6
\nIntroduction 7
\n1 The Eyebrow 10
\n2 Blamed for Everything 15
\n3 The Cursed Child 19
\n4 The Slippers 23
\n5 The Enemy of Horses 28
\n6 Tamima\u2019s Stone 33
\n7 Except the Sultan 39
\n8 The Piece of Cloth 44
\n9 Muslims and Mujrims 49
\n10 No Musicians or White Storks 55
\n11 The Royal Chancery 61
\n12 Are We Not All Muslims? 66
\n13 On Ethics and Rituals 71
\n14 The Voice of Fes 75
\n15 The Rift 78
\n16 A Cup of Milk 83
\n17 A Year to Forget 89
\n18 The Bad Smell 93
\n19 A Sultan\u2019s Verdict 98
\n20 Um al-Wazir 103
\n21 The Journey 111
\n22 The Caravan 114
\n23 The Race 118
\n24 The Princess 121
\n25 The Savior 125
\n26 An Eye Without an Eyebrow 130
\n27 The Sword Verse 135
\n28 The Philosopher King 138
\n29 The Mad Scholar 143
\n30 Jahannam 148
\n31 The Crow 153
\n32 The Fall 158
\n33 The Frying Pan 163
\n34 The Hypocrite 166
\n35 Reunion 172
\n36 A Knight Without a Horse 175
\n37 An Innocent Soul 179
\n38 The Mirror 183
\n39 Gold and Diamonds 189
\n40 The Red Prophet 193
\nAuthor\u2019s Note 196
\nAbout the Author 197<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Morocco, 1359. The people of Fes are living in deprivation under the rule of an unjust sultan. Zakaria is a young Muslim scholar trying to sustain his family while committing to a rigid moral code. To provide for his sickly daughter, he sacrifices his principles and seeks a job at the palace, where he gradually becomes entangled in a web of intrigue, his conscience tormented by serving the sultan. In the hope of fleeing from the constraints of his world, he joins the quest of Muhammad ibn Yusuf, the exiled king of Granada, and his enchanting sister, Aisha, to reclaim their throne. Together, they set out to Andalusia on a journey that will call into question all of Zakaria\u2019s beliefs and change the history of the Iberian Peninsula for decades to come.<\/p>\n
Then He Sent Prophets<\/em> is a story about the suffering of young idealists in a world of inevitable compromise. Throughout his journey, Zakaria faces internal struggles that are timeless and universal, strives to reconcile his faith with the world, doubts the motives behind his desire to live morally, and ends up wondering whether a life consisting of one compromise after another is one worth living.<\/p>\n Then He Sent Prophets<\/em> is a novel for our moment. Set around the political struggles of fourteenth-century Granada, it is a deeply sympathetic and passionately human look at how one might make\u2014or fail to make\u2014moral, decent choices when living in a violent, indecent world. Circumstances present Zakaria with a position at the palace. […] Can someone critical of the sultan and conscious of his corruption maintain integrity while serving at the palace? And what\u2019s the line between complete innocence and partial complicity? These are the questions at the crux of his ethical dilemma. […] It\u2019s easy to make connections between Zakaria\u2019s inner dilemmas and those many of us grapple with today.
\n\u2014 Marcia<\/strong> Lynx Qualey<\/strong>, founding editor of ArabLit<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2014 Hafsa Lodi<\/strong> in The New Arab<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[655,654,665,650,243,666],"product_tag":[],"authors":[653],"publisher":[],"class_list":["post-21968","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-grenada","product_cat-history","product_cat-morocco","product_cat-novel","product_cat-poetry","product_cat-spain","authors-mohamed-seif-el-nasr","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/21968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=21968"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=21968"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=21968"},{"taxonomy":"authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors?post=21968"},{"taxonomy":"publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publisher?post=21968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}