Mother of vows - Abdul Rahman Munif

Mother of Vows, the account of that child in his first encounter with life outside his home. The world of the book where Sheikh Zaki, who teaches children, and his basic tool in education: rods of varying lengths. It is a symbol of the localization process.

Places whose names he has long heard, and their influences on society: Umm al-Nudhur, Sheikh Mujeeb, Sheikh Darwish, the river, death, marginal community figures...

A strong, tyrannical fear, confronts the child Sameh from his first contact with society, that fear that makes everyone subject to powers, myths, and delusions that make them incapable of confrontation, so they turn like his mother who is submissive to his father, like that woman who writes incantations or prepares bitter medicines such as malaria.

The novel Umm al-Nudhur, from the first thing that Abd al-Rahman Munif wrote, is as if it is the beginning of his long path, starting with what was stored in the childhood stage.