The Fall of the Imam

Nawal El Saadawi The Fall of the Imam is a novel by Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi published in Arabic in 1987. The English translation by the author's husband Sherif Hetata was published in 1988. Quotes My mother died a virgin and so will I’, to which they reply, ‘You are the child of sin and your mother was stoned to death’ (Page 1) A strange face, neither human nor animal; a face that belonged not to a man, or to a father, or to an Imam’ (Page 16) Just before she dies, Bint Allah always asks her murderers polemical questions: ‘What crime can be the crime of a virgin never touched by the hand of a man?’ (Page 171) ‘It was he that took me away from my misery. I saw him seated on his throne and fell in love with him immediately’ (Page 36)** External link Category:Literary works Category:Novels