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In the house of the mosque, the family of Aqa Jaan has lived for eight centuries. Now it is occupied by three cousins: Aqa Jaan, a merchant and head of the city's bazaar; Alsaberi, the imam of the mosque and Aqa Shoja, the mosque's muezzin. The house itself teems with life, as each of their... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Aqa Jaan: Add a description of this character.
- Alsaberi: Mosque's Imam and Aqa Jaan's older brother.
- Aqa Shoja: The mosque's blind Muezzin and Aqa Jaan's brother.
- Nosrat: Aqa Jaan's younger brother, photographer and film maker
- Shahbal: Muezzin's son and Aqa Jaan's nephew.
- Sadiq: Alsaberoi's daughter, Aqa Jaan's niece, married to Khalkhal.
- Ahmad: Alsaberi''s son, Aqa Jaan's nephew who takes over as the mosque's imam after completing his studies.
- Khalkhal: Married to Sadiq and takes over at Alsaberi's death.
- The gradmothers
- Ayatollah Khomeini
- Kazem Khan
- Fakhri Sadat
- Golbanu
- Allah
- Beheshti
- Nasrin
- Farah Diba
- Khanom
- Aga Jaan
- Golebeh
- Hoveyda
- Muhammad
- Solomon
- Hajji Mustafa
- Ayatollah Araki
- Muezzin
- Mohammad Khalkhal
- Hushang Khan
- Khezr
- Azam Azam
- Sadig
- Gabriel
- Rahmanali
- Reza Khan
- Ayatollah Almakki
- Saddam
- Medina
- Bani-sadr
- Hajji Shishegar
- Mahwash
Quotes edit
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“It's not enough to have the lamp- there has to be a genie inside.”
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If those sweet lips, that goblet of wine, Yes, everything, ends in non-existence, Then remember, for as long as you exist, That you are only what you will be one day: Nothing. It’s impossible to be less than that.
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Ali was Islam’s fourth caliph. On that night he had been in the mosque, leading the prayer with hundreds of believers lined up behind him, when Ibn Muljam came in, took a place behind Ali and started praying along with him. He waited until Ali got to the end of his prayer, then took out his sword and killed him with a single blow to the head. From that moment on, Islam was divided into two factions: Shiites and Sunnis.
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It’s not enough to have the lamp – there has to be a genie inside.
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the numbers of women suffering from female disorders were higher in the more religious cities
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The two grandmothers were pulling out the plants that had died in the winter, while the children chased each other and hid behind the thick tree trunks. An army of ants crawled out from under one of the ancient walls and covered the path by the old cedar tree like a moving brown carpet.
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three cousins: Aqa Jaan, the merchant who presided over the city’s bazaar, Alsaberi, the imam of the house and spiritual leader of the mosque, and Aqa Shoja, the mosque’s muezzin.
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Setting & Locations edit
- Qom
- Senejan
- Tehran
- America
- Paris
- Islam
- Iran
- Mecca
- Iraq
- Isfahan
- Koran
- Kabul
- Khorramshahr
- Kashan
- Najaf
- Persian Gulf
- Radio Moscow
- Kaaba
- Afghanistan
- Europe
First Sentence edit
Alef Lam Mim.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 10 in NRC's Best Dutch Novels. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Discovery of Heaven, and followed by Max Havelaar.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Kader Abdolah (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 839.31364
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