Rifqa Women in Islam The blessed city of Jerusalem

The blessed city of Jerusalem or in Arabic ‘al-Quds’ is one of the precious and dazzling jewels of human civilisation

and sayings of wise and pious Muslims

and ancient Sufi shrines decimated in bomb blasts

children learn about the story of Isra and Miraj and the history of how Salah began

Rifqa Women in Islam The blessed city of JerusalemPaperback Each day after school, Mohammed El Kurds grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqashe was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqas exile from Haifa to his familys current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the