Arous Ferghana

"Bride of Ferghana" is one of the series of novels of the History of Islam for the thinker and novelist Jerji Zidane. The novel includes the description of historical facts that the Abbasid state and its capital "Samarra" went through during the reign of the Caliph Al -Mu''tasim. The novel also depicts the greed of the Persians and their attempts to return their state, the rise of the Romans and their willingness to invade and sweep the Islamic Kingdom. At the beginning, the novel showed the customs and traditions of the people of the town of Ferghana, located in Persia, their preparations, and their rejoicing by Nayrouz. The story revolves in Persia, the birthplace of the heroine of the novel, Jihan, who loved a young man named Dergham, who in turn came to this country with companionship and lived in the confines of Ferghana''s father. A clip from the novel: "As for Dergham, when he saw himself in a retreat with Jihan poetry as if he was in a world other than this world, and he forgot to travel, war, ranks and titles, and he wished that that hour turned into an age or extends forever, he does not seek food with it or drink, nor wealth as if it is It is stripped of the material and saw in the convergence of their souls a meaning that is not marred by anything from what the body lacks or desires desires, and love is an attraction between the souls that does not spoil it or weakens it other than the body with its desires and inclinations, and therefore does not leave a strong, virgin, who is gone in the survival of love, let him out of the lust of the body and then The lover exchanged his girlfriend in love with love that brought happiness a microscope and the fullness of the public who were unable to represent love that the enjoyment of the souls with pure love for the purposes of the body. People.