Days of Ramadan in Islamic History

About this book

As the white thread of dawn slips through to announce a new day of fasting, and souls settle into the retreat of devotion, many forget that this month was never merely a season for individual worship, but an axis around which the millstone of history turned, and in whose nights and days the greatest transformations that changed the face of the world were forged. In this book, we break the barrier of time to return to "days of Ramadan" as you have never known them. This is no dry historical narration, but a human journey that begins from the dust of the Battle of Badr and the cries of "the Day of the Criterion," passes through the conquest of Mecca, where hearts were opened before fortresses, and reaches the stories of kings who came from the farthest Yemen to embrace the light in the days of fasting. The author, Ahmed Galal El-Din, moves skillfully between the jurisprudence of the soul and the glories of the nation, narrating to us fragrant biographies of figures who were born or departed in this blessed month; from the birth of Al-Hasan ibn Ali, the Prophet's grandson, to the final moments in the life of "the lady of the women of the world," Fatima Al-Zahra.