Ninety-Nine A Kaleidoscopic Portrait of Allah [#1045784]

Amira Mittermaier, "Ninety-Nine: A Kaleidoscopic Portrait of Allah"
English | ISBN: 147803906X | 2026 | 272 pages | PDF | 6 MB
According to Islamic tradition, God has at least ninety-nine names. In Ninety-Nine, Amira Mittermaier presents ninety-nine short chapters based on her fieldwork and interviews with over one hundred Egyptians about who God is to them. In Egypt's turbulent twenty-first century-the Egyptian uprising, a military coup, a pandemic, a climate crisis, wars across the region-God is talked about endlessly yet remains elusive. Ninety-Nine follows Allah into different spaces and conversations without ever claiming to get the full picture. We meet a Cairo beggar, an enigmatic dervish, a queer agnostic, and a Salafi housewife. We meet a depressed God, a cute God, a God who has stopped caring, a loving God, and a God who is a bully. We learn about divine interventions, big and small, and about daily struggles, even fights, with God. An intimate mosaic of Allah,