The Thibghatar bird

Publisher: Al Dar Al Arabiya Lil Ulum Publishers Number of pages: 328 The novel "The Bird of Arrogance" offers a new understanding of the current Arab reality, and the author moves with his narratives from the rejected reality, searching and exploring for an alternative other reality that has room for many lost and missing values. The novel is considered a multi-faceted type and can be read in more than one way and understood in more than one meaning, each according to his culture and intellectual baggage. The certain thing about it is that it monitors the mental structures in Arab and Islamic society throughout human history. The novelist's use of the phrase "Memoirs of a Crazy Prophet" is merely a technical device where he attributes his ideas to a madman, thus absolving himself of responsibility. "Bird of Arrogance" revolves between two ideas: a revolutionary, renewing thought and an ancient, Jahili (pre-Islamic) one. It calls for humanization, rejects dogmatism, and the negation of the other. After finishing reading it, you will find yourself on the other side of life, inevitably reconsidering many prevailing stereotypical ideas, and favoring rational thinking in religion. You will ask yourself: where do I stand now?