The person from Mecca, please, on the world

The Sardar family is a model of the ancient Meccan family, through which we see the life of Mecca. Especially the lives of women in Mecca between 1945 and 2009, a period that witnessed many transformations in the lives of the city's residents, who live with the presence of the Haram. In a family where the father controls all aspects of life, the child "Abbas" (Bahbal) is born, who was one of twins, according to the midwife, but his twin was lost! He lived close to the women of the family and decided to write their lives. Written by: Mohamed Turki Al-Rabieou - Qantara website. Many are afflicted with the disease of the cities in which they were born and lived their childhood. In this age stage, stories of parents, neighbors, and friends are shaped, and over time, these stories turn into events, tales, and memories of the city and its customs. Breaking free from them becomes impossible, even if we leave to other cities. This applies to the Saudi novelist Raja' Alam. In her novel (Bahbal Mecca 1945-2009), she tries to complete her writing project on the social and cultural history of Mecca. The city — which has long been associated in the minds of Muslims with the House of God and its black cloak — appears in another aspect, changing very quickly. The Meccan novelist Raja' Alam appears bold: Mecca — a refuge for those seeking spirituality and wishes — now has margins carrying stories of women and young people from three generations who turned to madness as a refuge from their daily traditional reality. Mohamed Turki Al-Rabieou's extrapolation for Qantara. The Mecca we seek for dreams, spiritual memories, and wishes — hoping to realize them after visiting — carries in its margins and edges the stories of hundreds of women and young people who went mad due to their daily traditional reality. The Prophet Muhammad, who led the city — fourteen centuries ago — toward another religious imagination, now his children live in the shadow of a city without dreams or imagination. This is perhaps a result that Alam does not mention directly, but the reader of the novel feels it through the scene of Sukkariya saying, "The fear of shame killed us." Perhaps someone preceded Raja' Alam in talking about the life of madness, like Naguib Mahfouz's novels about Cairo, or Khairy Al-Dhahabi's novels about Damascus.