Creator Bio
Umm al-Khayr
11th Century
Little is known of the life of Umm al-Khayr, a woman living in Ragusa, Sicily.
Content by Umm al-Khayr
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Letter to Her Son, Judah
My advice, which, if you had borne in mind . . . give precedence to all these words of mine according to the strength of my grief and to . . . strong and the yearning for you far away in a city not .…