Bent Rib

Bent Rib
Author: Huda Khattab
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2007
Genre: Muslim women
ISBN: 9789960987125

From a Crooked Rib

From a Crooked Rib
Author: Nuruddin Farah
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2006-06-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780143037262

Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. But even after her escape to Mogadishu, she finds herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was out in the bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty, and violence, Ebla has to fight to retain her identity in a world where women are "sold like cattle."

A Crooked Rib

A Crooked Rib
Author: Judy Corbalis
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2015-07-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1775538273

A compelling novel based on the disastrous and scandalous marriage of New Zealand’s Governor Sir George Grey and his lively young wife, Eliza Lucy. Trapped in an increasingly loveless union, Sir George and his wife, Eliza Lucy, each sought affection elsewhere. Lady Grey’s indiscretion caused her to be cast off by her husband and vilified throughout colonial and domestic Victorian high society. Her fall from grace was broadcast by The Times of London, eventually reaching even the ears of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Meanwhile the nature of Sir George’s liaison with his young Maori protégé was to remain only the subject of speculation. Eliza’s life is revealed through the perspective of the fictitious English orphan, Fanny Thompson, who offers an intriguing interpretation of Sir George’s behaviour. But Fanny, too, finds herself drawn by the lure of an exotic culture and is forced to question the nature of love and to confront her own values.

The Creation of Eve and Renaissance Naturalism

The Creation of Eve and Renaissance Naturalism
Author: Jack M. Greenstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-08-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 110710324X

This book traces how four early Renaissance masters represented the Creation of Eve, which showed woman rising weightlessly from Adam's side at God's command.

The Hadith

The Hadith
Author: Mufti Taqi Usmani
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2017-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781547290338

Sahih Bukhari is a collection of sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), also known as the sunnah. The reports of the Prophet's sayings and deeds are called ahadith. Bukhari lived a couple of cen-turies after the Prophet's death and worked extremely hard to collect his ahadith. Each report in his collec-tion was checked for compatibility with the Qur'an, and the veracity of the chain of reporters had to be painstakingly established. Bukhari's collection is recognized by the overwhelming majority of the Muslim world to be one of the most authentic collections of the Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh). Bukhari (full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin al-Mughira al-Ja'fai) was born in 194 A.H. and died in 256 A.H. His collection of hadith is considered second to none. He spent sixteen years compiling it, and ended up with 2,602 hadith (9,082 with repetition). His criteria for acceptance into the collection were amongst the most stringent of all the scholars of a hadith. It is a complete Volume 9 of Sahih al Bikhari to seek the guidence of Islam

Historical Lute Construction

Historical Lute Construction
Author: Robert Lundberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2002
Genre: Music
ISBN:

The most comprehensive, authoritative work on understanding and building authentic lutes, by a world renown luthier and scholar. Historical section covers the development of the lute from the 15th through the 18th century with over 100 photographs of ancient lutes and 50 diagrams; practicum section covers the construction of the lute in minute detail with over 600 step-by-step photographs and a dozen diagrams. Includes a list of historic makers, catalog of extant historic lutes, bibliography and index, plus complete reduced images of seven lute plans.

Eve and Adam

Eve and Adam
Author: Kristen E. Kvam
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1999-05-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780253212719

This anthology surveys more than 2,000 years of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim commentary and debate on the biblical story that continues to raise questions about what it means to be a man or to be a woman.