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Author: Zakaria Bashier
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Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780860371243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis account of the Hijra - the departure of the Prophet from Makkah (Mecca) to Yathrib (now Medina) - is a story of endurance and triumph in the face of seemingly insuperable adversity.
Author: Zakaria Bashier
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis account of the Hijra - the departure of the Prophet from Makkah (Mecca) to Yathrib (now Medina) - is a story of endurance and triumph in the face of seemingly insuperable adversity.
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Publisher: Kube Publishing Ltd
Published: 2018-11-05
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 0860377318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Prophet Muhammad is besieged on all sides by his enemies. Then God sends him some unlikely helpers in the form of a pair of doves and a spider. Told from their perspective, this retelling of a classic true story from the Prophet's life weaves a tale that shows how even the smallest of us can have a great destiny. Stunningly illustrated in a unique silhouette style by the author, The Spider and the Doves will enchant and enlighten children of all faiths for years to come. It's being released just in time for Ramadan. Farah Morley lives in Wales, United Kingdom. She has lectured to diverse audiences, including the BBC, the internationally renowned Beyond the Border festival, The Quest Foundation, and the UK government. She lives in Wales with her husband and their children. The Spider and the Doves is her first book for children.
Author: A Revathi
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2010-07-10
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 8184752717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe got stared at a lot. People asked out loudly—some out of curiosity, others out of malice—whether we were men or women or ‘number nines’ or devadasis. Several men made bold to touch us, on our backs, on our shoulders. Some attempted to grab our breasts. ‘Original or duplicate?’ they shouted and hooted. At such moments I felt despair and wondered if there would ever be a way for us to live with dignity and make a decent living. Revathi was born a boy, but felt and behaved like a girl. In telling her life story, Revathi evokes marvellously the deep unease of being in the wrong body that plagued her from childhood. To be true to herself, to escape the constant violence visited upon her by her family and community, the village-born Revathi ran away to Delhi to join a house of hijras. Her life became an incredible series of dangerous physical and emotional journeys to become a woman and to find love. The Truth about Me is the unflinchingly courageous and moving autobiography of a hijra who fought ridicule, persecution and violence both within her home and outside to find a life of dignity.
Author: Anosh Irani
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2016-09-06
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0345816765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and for the Governor General's Literary Award, this powerful new work, about a transgender sex worker in the red-light district of Bombay who is given an unexpected task, is a gripping literary page-turner--difficult and moving, surprising and tender. Anosh Irani's best novel yet, and his first with Knopf Canada. The Parcel's astonishing heart, soul and unforgettable voice is Madhu--born a boy, but a eunuch by choice--who has spent most of her life in a close-knit clan of transgender sex workers in Kamathipura, the notorious red-light district of Bombay. Madhu identifies herself as a "hijra"--a person belonging to the third sex, neither here nor there, man nor woman. Now, at 40, she has moved away from prostitution, her trade since her teens, and is forced to beg to support the charismatic head of the hijra clan, Gurumai. One day Madhu receives a call from Padma Madam, the most feared brothel owner in the district: a "parcel" has arrived--a young girl from the provinces, betrayed and trafficked by her aunt--and Madhu must prepare it for its fate. Despite Madhu's reluctance, she is forced to take the job by Gurumai. As Madhu's emotions spiral out of control, her past comes back to haunt her, threatening to unravel a lifetime's work and identity. This is a dark, devastating but ultimately redemptive novel that promises to be one of the most talked-about publications of the year.
Author: Sayyid Naqī Ḥusain Jaʻfarī
Publisher: Primus Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 8190891855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a consideration of a vast scope of themes such as ghazal as a form of non-conformist poetry, Hispano-Arabic connections with English poetry, Syed Ahmad Khan's role in the Urdu-Hindi controversy, and madrasa education and its contemporary criticism, the volume forms an important compliment (and corrective) to much of the current writings on the various issues.
Author: Jessica Hinchy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-04-04
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 110849255X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.
Author: Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad Dāmād
Publisher: Alhoda UK
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 634
ISBN-13: 9781592670680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Including Selections from Sayyed Ahmad 'Alawi's Sharoh Kitaab al-Qabasaat."
Author: Laxmi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015-02-20
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780199458264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe was born a boy, but never felt like one. What was he then? He felt attracted to boys. What did this make him? He loved to dance. But why did others make fun of him? Battling such emotional turmoil from a very young age, Laxminarayan Tripathi, born in a high-caste Brahman household, felt confused, trapped, and lonely. Slowly, he began wearing women's clothes. Over time, he became bold and assertive about his real sexual identity. Finally, he found his true self-she was Laxmi, a hijra. From numerous love affairs to finding solace by dancing in Mumbai's bars; from being taunted as a homo to being the first Indian hijra to attend the World AIDS Conference in Toronto; from mental and physical abuse to finding a life of grace, dignity, and fame, this autobiography is an extraordinary journey of a hijra who fought against tremendous odds for the recognition of hijras and their rights.
Author: Juan Eduardo Campo
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 801
ISBN-13: 1438126964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the terms, concepts, personalities, historical events, and institutions that helped shape the history of this religion and the way it is practiced today.
