Eid Reading Challenge
Dear friends,
It is to inform you that IHCCO is holding a reading challenge for teenagers and adults as follows:
- You will read 10 pages of Christopher Clohessy’s book, “Faṭima, Daughter of Muḥammad”, on our website.
- Questions will be published on Saturday, January 30th on our website. You will then submit your answers by February 2nd, 2021.
- The test consists of 12 questions, with 20 minutes of time. Every person can take the test only once.
- With gifts for winners on the birthday of Lady Fatemeh.
IHCCO 40% discount: Gorgias Press has kindly offered an exclusive discount for this event. Use the coupon code LadyFatima21 at the checkout on their website when purchasing any of Father Clohessy’s books (including his very new book on the dreams of Karbala) from January 27 to February 10, 2021.
Stay safe!
IHCCO Public Relations
Details from Gorgias Press:
FÂṬIMA, DAUGHTER OF MUHAMMAD (SECOND EDITION – PAPERBACK)
https://www.gorgiaspress.com/fatima-daughter-of-muhammad-second-edition-paperback
(IHCCO price with 40% discount code LadyFatima21 is USD $39, this is a saving of $26 on RRP of $65 – shipping is not included in this price and will be calculated on checkout)
FÂṬIMA, DAUGHTER OF MUHAMMAD (SECOND EDITION – HARDBACK)
https://www.gorgiaspress.com/fatima-daughter-of-muhammad-second-edition
(IHCCO price with 40% discount code LadyFatima21 is USD $57, this is a saving of $38 on RRP of $95 – shipping is not included in this price and will be calculated on checkout)
ABOUT: The Prophet Muhammad died in June 10/632, his head cradled in the lap of his young wife Â’isha. In the shadows near his bed stood Fâṭima, his only surviving daughter, ousted from her father’s side at this critical moment. Fâṭima would die a few months later after a life lived ostensibly on the edges of Islam, and for centuries, although revered and honored by Muslims, she would remain a indistinct figure, barely known by those who follow the religion of her father.
But from the shadows of history and the pages of ancient Arabic texts emerges the picture of a startling and distinctive woman who, far from living on the peripheries of Islam’s beginnings, is deeply embedded in the politics, intrigue and profound religious sentiments of her time. The only child of Muhammad to survive him, a wife and mother living at the heart of her father’s world, Fâṭima was from early times taken up by Shî’a Islam, for whose adherents she is the virgin mother, the heavenly intercessor with untold power before God’s throne, and the grieving mother of al-Husayn, the Shî’a’s most important martyr. During her life she was impoverished and weak, neglected, marginalized, maltreated and divested of justice: but her reward in heaven comprises incalculable riches and jeweled habitations, and all the populace of that place will bow their heads in deference to her, and her company will be the angels and the friends of God. Here, for the first time, her story is told.
Angles Hastening: The Karbalāʾ Dreams NEW RELEASE – COMING FEBRUARY 2021 – HARDBACK ONLY
https://www.gorgiaspress.com/angels-hastening
(IHCCO price with 40% discount code LadyFatima21 is USD $57, this is a saving of $38 on RRP of $95 – shipping is not included in this price and will be calculated on checkout)
ABOUT: When, on an autumn Medina night in 61/680, the night that saw al-Ḥusayn killed, Umm Salama was torn from her sleep by an apparition of a long-dead Muḥammad, she slipped effortlessly into a progression of her co-religionists who, irrespective of status, gender or standing with God, were the recipients of dark and arresting visions. At the core of those Delphian dreams, peopled by angels or ğinn or esteemed forbears and textured with Iraqi dust and martyrs’ blood, was the Karbalāʾ event. Her dream would be recounted by an array of Muslim scholars, from al-Tirmiḏī, stellar pupil of al-Buḫārī, and Ibn ʿAsākir, untiring chronicler of Syrian history, to bibliophile theologian Ibn Ṭāʾūs and Egyptian polymath al-Suyūṭī. But this was not Umm Salama’s only otherworldly encounter and she was not the only one to have al-Ḥusayn’s fate disturb her nights. This is their story.
HALF OF MY HEART (PAPERBACK) The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of ʿAlî
https://www.gorgiaspress.com/half-of-my-heart-paperback
(IHCCO price with 40% discount code LadyFatima21 is USD $34.80, this is a saving of $23.20 on RRP of 58 – shipping is not included in this price and will be calculated on checkout)
HALF OF MY HEART (HARDBACK) The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of ʿAlî
https://www.gorgiaspress.com/half-of-my-heart
(IHCCO price with 40% discount code LadyFatima21 is USD $68.97, this is a saving of $45.98 on RRP of $114.95 – shipping is not included in this price and will be calculated on checkout)
ABOUT: As Abû ʿAbd Allâh al-Ḥusayn, son of ʿAlî and Fâṭima and grandson of Muḥammad, moved inexorably towards death on the field of Karbalâʾ, his sister Zaynab was drawn ever closer to the centre of the family of Muḥammad, the ‘people of the house’ (ahl al-bayt). There she would remain for a few historic days, challenging the wickedness of the Islamic leadership, defending the actions of her brother, initiating the commemorative rituals, protecting and nurturing the new Imâm, al-Ḥusayn’s son ʿAlî b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlî b. Abî Ṭâlib, until he could take his rightful place. This is her story.