Davide Saponaro

Articolo della Rivista, Anno II, numero 4, dicembre 2012

(A novelist, false Messiahs, turbans and exile: the Chronicle of Yemeni Jews by ‘Alī al-Muqrī) in La rivista di Arablit, a. II, n. 4, novembre/dicembre 2012, pp. 89-106. As he usually does in his works, the Yemeni novelist ‘Alī al-Muqrī faces a vexing theme in The Handsome Jew: a love story between a Muslim man and a Jewish woman, who challenge alone against all the rejection of both communities. The author offers an account of some curious episodes of Yemeni history, now mostly known only within a small circle of specialists.  These events, which occurred in the [...]