A new edition of the wonderful Peshmour novel by Salwa Bakr

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A new edition of Peshmouri's novel by the great writer Salwa Bakr will be published soon after Dar-Don Cairo 2019.

The story of the novel, which was first published in 1998, took place during the reign of the Caliph al-Ma'mun, who destroyed the Bashamra revolt. The Caliph al-Mutasim then used the captives who brought to Baghdad, the center of the caliphate, to eliminate the " ) In the south of Baghdad, because of their knowledge (ie captives Copts or Bashamma) characteristics of water and soil and the geography of the muddy land.

According to Kilgames Nabil, the novel is a bold novel by Egyptian writer Salwa Bakr, a two-part novel that discusses issues and periods that have been forgotten about Middle Eastern history during the Middle Ages. It is a profound account that discusses political, religious, philosophical, spiritual, And the lives of the peoples of this region under Abbasi rule and deal with it neutrally and offer the pros and cons courageously.

The novel speaks in the beginning about the Peshmarian revolt against injustice, the harsh abscess of the poorest people and the causes of hunger and poverty among them because of the misjudgment of the governors of the conditions of the peasants, until some began to destroy the flesh without the governors weigh heavily on the parish, and describes a terrible story, "Mena Bin Bakira" – who was a collector of abscesses or stamps in the Coptic – made him return to his senses and leave his work and revolutions against the governors in the muddy lands of Lower Egypt, but this revolution ends with the suppression of the infidel and exile them to Antioch. Baghdad and keep some in a Takih – they have chosen because of the large church close to the Jacobite – to Astamlohm later fuel to suppress Zt revolution in Basra because of the similarity of nature in the muddy land and marshes of Basra, is a novel use of oppressed peoples to conquer another people. This is evidenced by the fact that people were not asked about the fate of these people and the Gazans of Basrah, who were captured and taken to Khanaqin and then the Byzantine border, where they were again captured as Gypsies of Eastern Europe or Sigan in Romania, Bulgaria and others.

. (tagsToTranslate) البشمورى (t) طبعه جديدة (t) سلوى بكر (t) Historical novels