![]() ![]() In this sexually libertine society, the women and men do not marry rather, they share each other's partners. He gives his farewells to his family and proceeds on a caravan out of his home city to the land of Mashriq. Qindil is determined to embark on the journey, for he feels betrayed by his mother, who remarried, and his lover, who was stolen by the sultan. Further complicating Qindil's impending expedition, no documents exist about the land and no one is known to have returned from Gebel. The teacher attempted to journey there himself, but civil war in neighboring lands and the demands of family ultimately prevented him from completing the journey. ![]() The teacher encourages Ibn Fattouma to seek the land of Gebel, where such problems have been solved. When he asks his teacher why a land whose people obey the tenets of Islam suffers so, Qindil is told that the answer he seeks lies far away from the city, in the land of Gebel the land of perfection. Ibn Fattouma, more commonly known by his birth name Qindil Muhammad al-Innabi, is a Muslim man disillusioned by the corruption in his home city. It was translated from Arabic into English in 1992 by Denys Johnson-Davies and published by Doubleday. The Journey of Ibn Fattouma (Arabic:رحلة ابن فطومة) is an intermittently provocative fable written and published by Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz in 1983. ![]()
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