Hamid Mernissi is a Moroccan writer, traveler, and observer of life who was born and raised in the ancient Medina of Fez. His work grows from a lifetime of wandering, through cities, deserts, cultures, and ideas, always searching for the quiet wisdom hidden in everyday experiences. Trained as much by the streets of his childhood as by books and journeys across the world, Hamid writes about memory, culture, dignity, travel, and the human spirit.
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After more than a month of effort, the expedition finally reached the Sebou Bridge near Fez on 29 January 1912, only a short walk from the city itself.
Where do the richly detailed images we see in dreams come from? And where do the reflections that appear in mirrors actually exist?
This phenomenon is not limited to funerals. Clinical observations have documented cases in which people suddenly laugh during moments of extreme danger, catastrophe, or even when confronted with the prospect of death.
Ibn Sab'in argues that ordinary people believe in multiplicity because they are deceived by the senses and by the outward forms of material things. Mystics, on the other hand, perceive the deeper truth that existence is one, indivisible reality.
If one day a young reader who has never walked through the alleys of Fez learns dignity from my father, hospitality from my mother, wisdom from my grandmother, or kindness from one of those forgotten neighbors, then something extraordinary will have happened.
This challenge became especially evident in the contrast between Avicenna’s position and the philosophical foundation later developed by Mullā Ṣadrā.
On July 4, 1776, thirteen colonies declared their independence from Great Britain after years of struggle and sacrifice. The road to freedom was long and costly, but a new nation was born with a dream that all people should have the right to govern themselves.