The Jewel of Medina

Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Beaufort Books, Inc.; 1 edition (October 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0825305187
ISBN-13: 978-0825305184

Born Aisha bint Abi Bakr in seventh century Arabia, she would become the favorite wife of the Prophet Muhammad, and one of the most revered women in the Muslim faith. Married at the age of nine, The Jewel of Medina illuminates the difficult path Aisha confronted, from her youthful dreams of becoming a Bedouin warrior, to her life as the beloved wife and confident of the founder of Islam.

Extensively researched and elegantly crafted, The Jewel of Medina presents the beauty and harsh realities of life in an age long past, during a time of war, enlightenment, and upheaval. At once a love story, a history lesson, and a coming-of-age tale, The Jewel of Medina provides humanizing glimpses into the origins of the Islamic faith, and the nature of love, through the eyes of a truly unforgettable heroine.

To simply open THE JEWEL of MEDINA is to change history. It means turning the page on a new reality in which we dont accept a literal understanding of Islam in the world today. That is a very good thing. To be sure, not everyone will agree with the way novelist Sherry Jones wrote history. But, in just daring to imagine, she does something important for the pulse of the Muslim world: She breathes life into the forgotten womenand menof Islams birth. They fly off the page and into your soul as spiritual warriors. We care about them. And that is a victory for humanity.

-- Asra Nomani, journalist and author of "Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam"

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