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Kniha Smaller Than a Beetle Narin Hikma

Smaller Than a Beetle

The Life and Death of Sumayya bint Khayyat, the First Martyr of Islam

Autor: Narin Hikma
Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Brožovaná
Vydavateľ: Independently published
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa
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What if the broken parts of you were never the problem?There is a particular kind of pain in being t...

Informácie o knihe

Autor
Narin Hikma
Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydalo
2026
Stránok
268
EAN
9798187968534
Enbook ID
53269320
Vydavateľ
Independently published
Hmotnosť
364
Rozmery
152 x 229 x 14

Kompletný popis

What if the broken parts of you were never the problem?

There is a particular kind of pain in being told, over and over, that you are too small to matter. You have felt it - in a room where your voice didn't count, in a moment when someone with more power than you decided your dignity was negotiable.

Sumayya bint Khayyat was born into slavery on a coast history didn't bother to name, sold as a child into a Meccan household, and married off without ever being asked. She should have vanished - one more powerless woman in a city built to make sure powerless women vanished. Instead, when a new faith reached the margins of Mecca before it ever reached the powerful, she became one of the first seven people in the world to believe it, and the first to die for it. For years, the man determined to break her tried everything his considerable cruelty allowed. She met every bit of it with her eyes open. And when he offered her one final chance to save herself with a lie, she looked him in the face and told him the truth instead.

  • Recognize the quiet voice in you that has always known you are not as small as you've been told
  • Understand the difference between fury and conviction - and why only one of them actually builds something
  • Meet a marriage built entirely out of honesty, inside a life that offered almost nothing else to build with
  • Watch a mother raise sons to see clearly in a world designed to keep them blind
  • Carry forward the single sentence that has steadied believers for fourteen centuries

This is a book for anyone who has ever been made to feel smaller than they are - by a person, a room, a whole arrangement of power that never once asked their permission.

Fourteen centuries later, her sentence is still traveling.

Open the first page. She has been waiting a long time to be heard.