Muḥammad Kāmil Ḥusayn

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Adabunā al-ʻArabī fī ʻaṣr al-wulāh

M. Kamel Hussein

City of Wrong was the first book written in the Islamic world to make a thorough study of Christianity's central theme - Christ's crucifixion - and to show its profound significance for a devout Muslim. This moving story, translated by Bishop Kenneth Cragg, probes the broad avenues and the back alleys of Jerusalem on that fateful Friday, and explores the actions and states of mind of Apostles, Jews and Romans, shepherds and shopkeepers, participants and bystanders. In City of Wrong, which was awarded the State Prize for Literature in Egypt, Dr Hussein describes the events of Good Friday with the skill of a creative artist, and also a scholar's knowledge of religious sources and the Middle East of the first century.

Muḥammad Kāmil Ḥusayn

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