The Book of Naseeb tells the story of an idealistic heroin dealer who dreams of fitting the victims of war in Afghanistan with artificial limbs. In this breathtaking first novel, Khaled Nurul Hakim chronicles the hero's struggle for redemption through the backstreets and motorway service stations of modern Britain to the desert and mountains of a fictional borderland. Written in an exhilarating, incantatory blend of street argot and Quranic-inspired language, The Book of Naseeb charts an epic journey like no other.
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Khaled Nurul Hakim. The Book of Naseeb
ALSO BY KHALED NURUL HAKIM
CONTENTS
ISLAMIC TERMS AND CONCEPTS
1 | The Mi’raj of Angels
2 | The Account of the Angel of the Right Hand
3 | The Account of the Angel of the Left Hand
4 | The Account of the Angel of the Right Hand
5 | The Night Journey
6 | The Night of Power
7 | The Night of Decrees
8 | The Account of the Angel of the Left Hand
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THE BOOK OF NASEEB
Khaled Nurul Hakim was born in Birmingham and has a background in film and poetry, publishing sparingly in the 1990s. He was visiting tutor in MA Screenwriting at the London College of Printing till 2004. The Book of Naseeb originally began as a 2005 screenplay for a low-budget feature film to be called Barzakh. Scheduled to be shot in Uzbekistan, the project was aborted when civil unrest broke out. Khaled took a decade-long break from writing to pursue a spiritual path, becoming a Sufi student and Sufi musician. He returned to rework the text as ‘a degraded epic’ while also looking after a growing family, a task that would take more than seven years.
