The Imam Of Time

Imagine You Are In The Raging Streets Of Tehran, Not With The People Who Are Demonstrating Against ABrutally Repressive Government, But You Are There Against The People.your Name Is Ahmed, And You Are Part Of The Force Sent To Crush The Demonstrators, But You Do Not Want To Be ThereThe Violence Sickens YouPeople Are Being Savagely BeatenAWoman Near You Is Shot And Falls To The Pavement, Blood Streaming From Her MouthAs She Lays There Dying, She Looks At You As If Pleading To Know Why Her Life Has Been Taken From Her.the Demonstrators Surround You And Shove You Because You Are One Of The Oppressors, But You Throw Your Helmet And Truncheon To The Ground, And You Cry Out, ?this Is Not Islam!? You Keep Shouting It, And Finally You Flee The Violent StreetsYou Return To The Town Of Your Birth, Wishing You Could Know Authentic Islam?the Islam Of Muhammad.in This Powerful Work Of Magical Realism, Author F.wBurleigh Gives Ahmed His Wish By Sending Him Into th Century Arabia, First As ASlave And Then As Muhammad?s ScribeHe Gets The Experience He Longed For, But It Is Not What He Anticipated, For He Has Entered AWorld Of Stomachturning Violence Brought About By The Very Founder Of The Religion In Which He Was Raised.he Ultimately Rebels Against Muhammad, Seeing Him AFalse Prophet With ADangerous IdeologyHe Is About To Be Beheaded When He Returns To Present Day Iran Through The Well Of The Mahdi In Iran, The Very Well From Which Shi?ites Await The Return Of The Hidden Imam Of TimeAhmed Is Their Awaited Imam Of Time, But What He Has To Say To His Contemporaries Brings The Rage Of Iran?s Clerical Rulers Down On Him.the Hero Becomes An Advocate Of Women,s Rights Through His Relationship With Rayhaneh, ACharacter Inspired By One Of Muhammad,s WivesThe Rayhaneh Of The Muslim History Books Was Taken Captive And Turned Into Muhammad?s Unwilling Concubine After He Conquered The Qurayza Jews And Beheaded All The MenIn The Imam Of Time Rayhaneh Is From Tehran, But She Suddenly Finds Herself Transported Into The Past, And She Appears In The Qurayza Fortress At The Time Of Their SurrenderSo It Is She Who Is Taken Captive And Turned Into Muhammad,s Unwilling ConcubineIn The Islamic Histories, Rayhaneh Dies After Four Years, Very Likely From Grief, But In The Novel, She Vanishes After Four Years And Returns To Contemporary Iran Where She Becomes Involved With The Hero Due To Their Shared Experiences.we Invite You To Jo
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