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Copyright 1998 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5160
All Rights Reserved
First Edition 1998
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This book is part of the Mohammed El-Hindi Series on Arab Culture and Islamic Civilization and is published with the assistance of a grant from the M.E.H. Foundation.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dallal, Shaw J. Scattered like seeds : a novel / Shaw J. Dallal : with a foreword by John B. Harcourt. 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-8156-0553-6 (alk. paper) 1. PalestineExilesFiction. 2. Palestinian ArabsFiction. PS3554.A4333S23 1998 813'.54dc21 98-8761
Manufactured in the United States of America
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With love and humility, this novel is dedicated to my parents and to the Palestinian people, who inspired it
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By the {Winds} Sent Forth One after another {To scatter seeds}
Which then blow violently In tempestuous Gusts,
And scatter {people} Far and wide;
Then separate them, One from another
Then spread abroad A Message..." The Holy Quran, Al-Mursalaat Surah, LXXVII, 15
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Shaw J. Dallal teaches Islamic culture in the Honors Program of Syracuse University and international business management and international law and economics at Utica College. He is a trained lawyer and a businessman turned professor and novelist, who has served as the chief legal advisor for the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) in Kuwait.
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CONTENTS
Foreword, John B. Harcourt
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Acknowledgments
xv
Introduction, Muhammad Hallaj
xvii
Prologue
1
Part One
21
Part Two
141
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FOREWORD
John B. Harcourt
There was something truly unusual about the young man who arrived at Ithaca College in 1953. He had spent two years in the College of Engineering at Cornell University. Now he was double registered, having also enrolled as an economics major in a small, struggling institution just beginning to venture into the humanities. Virtually all of his classmates were men and women from communities in upstate New York; he was a Palestinian, yet he was most closely linked to his fellow students by poverty. Like so many of them, he would combine a standard academic program with full-time employment, working from 4 P.M. to midnight in a local industrial plant.
I soon came to know Shaw Dallal. He was an English minor and a member of the Canterbury Club, for which I was faculty adviser. He told us of his childhood in his native Palestine. We learned of his father's struggle against the Ottomans in World War I and of his bitterness against the British when the Balfour Declaration was announced. We heard of his education in the schools of Palestine during the British Mandate in that country and of his meeting an American priest while working in a hospital in Kuwait. This mentor had persuaded him that only in the United States could he obtain a first-rate education without significant financial resources. Thus encouraged, he had applied to several distinguished U.S. col-
Dr. John B. Harcourt is Charles A. Dana Professor of English Emeritus, Ithaca College.
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leges and universities and had chosen Cornell University because of the scholarship grant it offered him.
Shaw married a young American woman, a fellow student at Cornell, while still an undergraduate, and managed to graduate from Ithaca College in 1956. Still combining the academic program with a heavy workload, he went on to complete his law studies at the Cornell Law School, from which he received a J.D. For many years, we heard little of him. Then one day he reappeared as the eminently successful businessmanowner and chief executive officer of a multimillion dollar conglomerate in the Middle Eastand was now in a position to make substantial gifts both to Ithaca College and to Cornell University. We had lunch together several times a year. On one of those occasions, he arrived with a bulky typescript in hand.
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