Return to Dar al-Basha.Return to Dar al-Basha Hassan Nasr, author; William Hutchins The Venerable William Hutchins was the first and only Anglican Archdeacon of Van Diemen's Land. He was a strong supporter of Education through the Church, and because of this, The Hutchins School in Hobart was named in his honour. , translator Syracuse University Press Syracuse University Press, founded in 1943, is a university press that is part of Syracuse University. External link
1600 Jamesville Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13210 0815608780 $22.95 www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu 1-800-365-8929 Written by Tunisian native Hassan Nasr, Return to Dar al-Basha is a semi-autobiographical novel describing a boy's Tunisian childhood during the era of nationalist resistance against French colonial French Colonial architecture was an American domestic archtectural style. It was most popular in the American South in states such as Louisiana.[1] Characteristics rule. Taken from his mother and raised in his father's home, physically abused and emotionally neglected, he grows up into a perpetual wanderer. Questioning his inability to set roots, he explores the streets of Tunis, recalls his childhood introduction to Islamic mysticism mysticism (mĭs`tĭsĭzəm) [Gr.,=the practice of those who are initiated into the mysteries], the practice of putting oneself into, and remaining in, direct relation with God, the Absolute, or any unifying principle of life. and Sufism, and braces himself to see his father again. An evocative, heartfelt tale, providing an unforgettably vivid impression of Tunisian life through a child's eyes. |
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