Christianity in Jordan - Jordanian Christians, Suleiman Mousa, Norma Khouri, Congregation for the Oriental Churches, Roman Catholicism in Jordan (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jordanian Christians, Suleiman Mousa, Norma Khouri, Congregation for the Oriental Churches, Roman Catholicism in Jordan, Asad Ghanma. Excerpt: Suleiman Mousa (Arabic: ) (11 June 1919 - 9 June 2008) was a Jordanian author and historian born in Al-Rafeed, a small village north of the city of Irbid. He wrote many books of which most prominent are "The Biography of Sharif Hussein Bin Ali ", "Jordan in the 1948 War", "The Great Arab Revolt", "History of Jordan in the 20th century", and was the first and only Arab author to write about Lawrence of Arabia and show the Arab perspective. His book 'T.E. Lawrence: An Arab View' was published in 1966 and translated into English, French and Japanese. It was written after a study that had convinced him that although there were many books written to praise Lawrence and others written to discredit him, all of them exaggerated his part in the Arab Revolt and failed to do justice to the Arabs themselves. Suleiman Mousa was born in Al Rafeed (), a village located 20 km north of the city Irbid overlooking Yarmouk River, Jordan in 1919. The death of his father, an unwealthy, modest man, who had a passion for reading and writing, came as a shock to him, his mother and sister while he was a mere six years of age. Leaving them nothing but a basket of cane rods containing several books, his mother took up the task of securing the family's needs. Being part of a village that was dependent mainly on agriculture for its survival, they lived a simple and spontaneous life. Suleiman Mousa during his stay in Jaffa.After receiving his elementary education from religious scholars, Mousa moved to a small school known as Al Ta'ifa for three years. As were his mother's ambitions, he was then sent to a governmental school in A... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10758116