{"product_id":"mansours-eyes-9781945492365","title":"Mansour's Eyes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Capitalism and religious fundamentalism collide in Girod's shimmering account of one man's heresy and imminent execution.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, Starred Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMansour al-Jaza ri is on his way to his public execution. As his faithful friend Hussein looks on, the crowd calls for his head. \u003ci\u003eGassouh  Gassouh \u003c\/i\u003e It is a time when age-old rituals play out amid skyscrapers and are replayed on smartphone screens in the air-conditioned corridors of shopping malls. Set over the course of a single day in the Saudi Arabian capital, \u003ci\u003eMansour's Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e weaves together several historical pasts: the time of Mansour's great-grandfather, the Emir Abdelkader; that of Algerian independence; and that of another Mansour, Mansur Al-Hallaj, a Sufi mystic executed in 922. In this lyrical and ambitious novel, Ryad Girod looks at the post-Arab Spring world as its drive toward modernity threatens to sever its relationship with the ethos of Sufi thought and mysticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Transit Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945492365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d","brand":"Ryad Girod","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36672104857756,"sku":"9781945492365","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_02e569f3-37ca-4cbb-becb-514eb7e56173.jpg?v=1603926963","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mansours-eyes-9781945492365","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}