The scholar - Ahmed Fal Al-Din

"Scholar" or "The scholar of scholars," is the biography of Imam Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, who excelled over his contemporaries and became the Imam of his era and the scholar of his time. A narration, even if it resorted to history, does not fall into the traps of stereotypical images of Abu Hamid, but rather presents a living, anxious human self, and describes the atmosphere of his era, from political seditions and sectarian disputes and conspiracies in the palace, and in the fortress of death, lurking in another place no less dangerous than the threat of the Crusader Franks. It is a novel that, when invoking a symbol from collective memory, does so to plant its questions in the soil of the present, and highlights the value of knowledge as a path to salvation. Among the questions the novel raises: Can drawing closer to God be achieved without jihad of the self and silence? And who revives the sciences of religion when they have become an accessible door?