- International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2014 · Shortlist
تغريبة العبدي المشهور بولد الحمرية
Taghribat al-'Abdi al-Mashhur bi-Wild al-Hamriyya
“The Wanderings of al-Abdi, Known as Son of al-Hamriyya” (title translated by AI)
Abdelrahim Lahbibi (عبد الرحيم لحبيبي, born 1950)
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A researcher who stumbles on a manuscript first hopes to turn its edition into a university thesis under a specialist, then takes the work on alone. The text recounts al-Abdi's travels from Morocco to the Hijaz to seek knowledge, in the footsteps of Moroccan scholars such as Ibn Khaldun, and becomes a reflection on why Arabs and Muslims lag behind and what they might learn from Europe.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 255 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Morocco, Saudi Arabia
- First published
- 2013 by Afriqiya al-Sharq
- Author's age
- 63 when first published
- ISBN
9789981258662 (original)
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