What life has taught me - Jalal Amin

A biography with deep thinking and a very smooth pen - turns the honest biography into a tool to explore the society in which he was raised... So he compares the circumstances of his upbringing with those of his father and then his children and grandchildren, and he returns the personal observations (which may be ordinary and considered fleeting by some) to their phenomena and general roots, linking the particular with the general, and the individual becomes a mirror reflecting his society... and the autobiography turns into a book that addresses entire generations... The book discusses some personal details, but with this vital and intelligent connection to the general causes, so when he talks about his eight brothers and the differences in each of their personalities despite growing up in the same environment, he almost draws a "portrait" of each of them in a very clever and also honest way... and of course, it also covers his deep and calm intellectual transformation from nationalism in his early youth to socialism, then to positivist materialism, until he reached his final stage in his positive and empathetic view of religion in general and Islam in particular, a perspective that took him out of the leftist ranks but did not exactly place him among the "Islamists," although his sympathy with them is clear... His turn to empathy with religion came after living in the West and noticing the spiritual emptiness present there, which made him question the usefulness of the concept of "progress" — he also expands more on this concept in his other important book, "The Myth of Progress." In the book, the author presents many positions in this genius way that makes the reader relive his personal life and try to connect it with the broader framework in which he lives. Number of pages: 338 Publisher: Dar Al Shorouk