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We return now to the narrative of our Lord’s doings.
After he had put the pure turban on his head, he made love to his Ashkenazi wife. She conceived; she bore him a son. On…
Dear readers! I am giving you a rare and precious treasure, which has hitherto been lying in a library for three hundred years. Jews have always been thinking and talking about this treasure…
When this ostensibly quiet scene was photographed, Morocco was in the throes of a struggle for independence against its French occupiers. The uprising was becoming increasingly violent, with riots…
At the gate of the inner courtyard, where the eunuchs and all of the great men of the kingdom were standing before the king, they were standing there, and Amira was sitting, and the aforementioned…
Today in every district of Istanbul and neighboring areas we can see Muslim, community, and foreign schools that disseminate instruction and enlighten the people. [For my part] I work as a teacher at…
This photograph by Zédé Shulmann is one of the last taken of the Jewish community of Ifrane (also known as Oufrane), Morocco, whose last members immigrated to Israel in the 1950s. According to legend…
Meanwhile, the beautiful Saâda wandered the streets of Blidah . . . She continued straight ahead, without purpose or thought.
She went . . . She found Blida banal with its one-story European…
It cannot be doubted that the two designations ahl al-ḥadīth and ahl al-ra’y originally referred to branches of legists occupied with the investigation of Islamic law: the former were…
I did not sleep; I let myself be rocked by the inexorable battle of the waves; soon the monster of seasickness flashed in my innards, but I overcame it. A god held sway in me; he triumphed: it was the…
The embroidered structure in the center of this silk Torah ark curtain is thought to be a loose representation of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, with its six minarets and entryway stairs. A somewhat…
