TY - BOOK AU - Subai,Ahmed AU - Akers,Deborah S. AU - Bagader,Abubaker A. TI - My Days in Mecca SN - 9781935049111 AV - PJ7862.I18 ǂb S533 2009eb U1 - 892.7/8609 PY - 2009///] CY - Boulder PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Editors’ Acknowledgments --; A Note on the Life and Works of Ahmad Suba’i (1905-1984) --; The Kuttab: Traditional Quranic Education in Early Twentieth-Century Mecca --; My Days in Mecca --; In the Kuttab --; The Fortunate Ones --; Abjad-Hawaz (the ABCs) --; Celebration in the Kuttab --; Auntie Hassinah --; Kuttabs and Teacherss --; With the Reciters of the Quran --; ‘Abbas: The Classroom Bully --; Perfect Memorization --; In the Advanced School --; Sitti: My Grandmother --; Recklessness --; Bad Luck --; Literature and Knowledge --; A Turning Point --; The Teaching Chair --; Between Journalism and Literature --; In the Sawt al-Hijaz Newspaper --; Letters and Points --; Glossary --; About the Book; restricted access N2 - Ahmad Suba'i's autobiography is the story not only of an Arab boy growing up in Saudi Arabia at the turn of the twentieth century--to become a noted writer, educator, and social critic--but also of a place, Mecca, and of the world of the traditional quranic school of the time. Contextualizing the work, the editors have provided information about Suba'i's life and work, an essay on traditional quranic education in twentieth-century Mecca, and a glossary of Arabic terms UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781935049807 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781935049807 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781935049807/original ER -