Salih's Breath: A New Novel by Dr. Omar Fadlallah. By: Dr. Khaled Mohamed Farah

Salih's Breath: A New Novel by Dr. Omar Fadlallah.
By: Dr. Khaled Mohamed Farah
Dr. Omar Fadlallah Adib Waqas, a distinguished Sudanese researcher and writer, has varied and high-level contributions in various fields of science, knowledge, literature, thought, strategic studies and information technology, and has been working for several years as a senior consultant in the field of e-government in the United Arab Emirates.
In the area of ​​the novel specifically, it was issued by the novel "King Turgeman", a novel treatment of the story of the migration of the Companions of the Prophet (peace) in the seventh century AD to the city of Najashi, which is Soba, the capital of the kingdom of Alwa, , As required by this novel, as well as consistent with the premise of the same content said by some Sudanese scientists and writers in particular, was headed by the late Professor Abdullah al-Tayeb.
I have been presented to this author's last novel, in an article entitled: "A Reading in King Turgeman's novel by Dr. Omar Fadlullah", published in this respectable site itself. If he wants to go back to him, let him have it.
However, the novel "Breath Salihah" issued by Dr. Omar Fadlallah in this year 2017, is also considered a novel treatment similar to the history and circumstances and effects of the migration of Arab tribes to Sudan, and the increasing numbers of individuals and groups, to the degree enticed by the crackdown on the Kingdom of " And the overthrow of the king in the fifteenth century AD, in order to entrench a new page in the history of the country, not its cultural orientation, and dedicated a new national figure, embodied in the predominance of Arab and Islamic culture and trends in a decisive and final.
Like the work of Dr. Fadlullah in his previous novel "The King's Turgeman," this writer has relented strongly on the heritage in his novel "The Breath of Salihah," in which he combined the imagination, the reality, the heritage and history, and perhaps features of biography, In particular the novels of the traditional figures in Sudan, in order to produce a narrative work with a taste, which is based on a mosaic of all this, but at the same time different from all this, because in the end it is a novel work and not a research achievement. Because his first instrument is imagination, and its ultimate goal is thrill and satisfaction in the first place.
As the novel, as al-'Attabi says: "It is a plot, character and description, this is apparent, but within that there are opinions, ideas and messages that the writer tries to say his opinion is then a position of life and reality," we can say that Omar Fadlullah has met his work, And the technical elements of the novel work completely, from the plot, conflict, and the manufacture of characters, and portraying them in terms of appearance, detective and psychological trends, etc., and a narrative of events, and the holding of dramatic dialogues. But he has gone beyond this to shed, through his fascinating and interesting narration, some revealing lights on his way to a very important and pivotal phase of the historical development of the whole of Sudan at the political and social levels, especially the central region where the kingdoms of Abdalab and Fung respectively, Famous between them afterwards.
There is no doubt that the self-dimension, or the biographical and social background of the author, played a pivotal role in the manufacture of this creative work by Dr. Omar Fadlallah. The writer is from the town of "Elafon" near the "Soba" the capital of the kingdom, "Alwa," which was overrun by the Arabs led by "Abdullah Gamaa al-Qurainati Alqasmi" nicknamed "Abdullah Jamaa", they dropped, and ruined Kharaba became a striking example of the famous in Sudan.
The area of ​​the Elephon was associated with the personality of the great Sufi Sheikh "Idris bin Mohammed al-Arbab" 1507-1651 AD and his involvement with the tribe of "Mahas". Those who live in the area of ​​the Blue and White Nile, and to the south of them, who belong to Al-Khazraj, as they say, have known about this region from their original homes, about the third waterfall area on the Nile in northern Sudan for centuries, with knowledge, goodness and religiosity in general. They are the oldest elements living in the Greater Khartoum area in general, along with the "Abbasid" and the "Bakrien" population, and between the three categories of intermarriage, overlap and permanent contiguity.
But feel this area, as if they feel a special sense that they are the true heirs of the cultural heritage of this region in general, and perhaps because of the spread of awareness and education among them from relatively early. For example, one of the first to publish the book "Laylaqat Da'if al-Da'if Allah in relation to the parents, the righteous, the scholars, the scholars and the poets in the Sudan" was published by Judge Ibrahim Siddiq, The pioneer of the theater, "Khaled Abu Rous", who is also the Mehmet Khartoum, has left us a rare literary impact and strongly linked to the history of this region, and the same events that revolve around the novel of Omar Fadlallah itself, which is his famous play "ruin of Soba," which Khaled Abu Rouss himself said he took her full story about his aunt.
While Khalid Abu al-Rous names the woman who ruined Soba with a "miracle," Omar Fadlallah calls her Queen "Duaneh" widow of the last kings of Anj in Soba, and justified the narrative of her destructive behavior, her desire to take revenge from some of the employees of the court who were lied to her and her husband.

The "Salihah" mentioned in the title of this novel, she is an orphan girl and her parents, belong to a family of Moroccan supervisors Shenakit. Her parents died when she was a small refugee from the plague. They invaded their village in the Far East of Morocco. Her grandfather and her grandfather saved her and promised to travel with him to the Holy Land through the Sudan, the 
Kingdom of Alwa. But he did

He was forced to change his promise to his granddaughter, under the insistence of Sheikh Muhammad al-Faqih and the teacher in the village book, to keep his book safe until he learns the Qur'an, as well as fearing the hardships of the long and exhausting journey. But Salihah flees from "being alone" and engages in a terrible adventure that almost lost her life in order to catch up with her grandfather, whom she loved with great love and owned by her own diasporas, but was for her everything in her life. She disguises herself as a boy, escorts the convoys of traders and pilgrims through the Great Sahara, and persecutes a series of oppressors and agonies, until she reaches Soba, happy to meet her grandfather, and reunites them again. There are in the country of Alwa, good for them, marry a Sudanese of Moroccan origin Andalusian also, and become herself the grandmother of the narrator of this novel, but grandmother to grandfather. As the narrator is an attractive boy and an artist intrigued by the past, his distant grandmother Salihah tells us, as a way of recollection or "flashback," her autobiography since she was a child in the land of Morocco and all that surrounded her life until she reached Soba , Her dramatic encounter with her grandfather, her marriage to Soba and her stay there, and the attendant horrific events that took place in the great historical and cultural transformations witnessed by the Sudan at the time. There is no doubt that the name "Salihah" chosen by the author of this novel to be launched to the heroine of this story, has its own significance, especially for the people of Elafon and other Mehsm Khartoum and the Greater Upper in general. He is known as Salha, which is Fatima bint al-Sharif Hamad Abu Danana, and the mother of the well-known preacher Sheikh Idris Wad al-Arhab. Sherif Hamad Abu Dannana This is a popular oral novel widely published in the Sudan. Sherif Maghrabi was a pioneer of Sheikh Mohammed bin Sulaiman al-Jazuli, the author of the book "Evidence of Goodness." He was brought to Sudan in 1445. He lived in the town of Sakadi, And that he had seven daughters, married men of flags from the people of Sudan, and gave birth to each of them a boy who became a famous and famous in Sudan. However, it is noted that Shaykh Muhammad al-Nur bin Daifullah did not mention the name of this sheikh, and did not refer to this incident in his book "Laylaat" although it was translated into all the sheikhs who claim that the novel is the sons of Khallat. , Has denied the authenticity of this novel in his book "Almassid". God knows what that was. Indeed, the narrative requires that Salihah meet the heroine of the novel with Aisha, the daughter of Sharif Hamad Abi Dannaneh, the wife of Sheikh Abdullah Jamaa and the mother of his famous son, Sheikh Ajeeb Al-Manglak. Aisha reminds her that her sister herself is called Salihah. She also tells her that they are originally from Andalusia, although she asserts that "Cherif Hamad Abu Dannaneh" is the Mahbi of the tribe, and this is what the novel differs from the most popular stories and stories. In any case, Dr. Omar Fadlullah comes back to us again, a rich story full of art, pleasure and suspense. In addition, there is an intellectual effort, a remarkable research effort, and a review of the relevant sources and references in the areas of movements and places of spread and stability of Arab and Sudanese tribes, Convoys, and population movements across the Sahara and to and from North African countries, as well as the fields of Sudanese and Inter-African history, languages ​​and dialects and so on. For example, he tells us, in the text of the novel, interesting examples of the Moroccan dialect, including models of the Tarakian and Amazigh origins, on more than one occasion when narration and dramatic dialogues dictate that. As well as some terms of poetry and singing Hassani Mauritanian, such as: "see" and "Kiffan" and the dignity, etc. The temporal space or the historical context in which the events of the novel, The period between the fall of the Nubian Christian kingdom of northern Sudan in the fourteenth century and the fall of the kingdom of Alwa in the fifteenth century To the beginning of the sixteenth century AD The political, social, religious and mental conditions prevailing at the time, as well as the atmosphere of conflicts, intrigues and conspiracies within the court of the Kingdom of Alwa, which helped to collapse it, and - of course - to the pressure and military siege imposed by the Arab tribes. - The nature of the population structure of the area of ​​"East Nile" in the Greater Khartoum region in that era, where the mention of the Anj, Nubia, Al-Mahas, Abdalab, Fung, Jahina and Moroccans, such as Sheikh "Hassouba Wad Abdullah" in Soba, "It is a name D heroine "Saliha", which in turn reminds us strongly, on behalf of al-Hajj "to Kani" free Sheikh Hassan and Dr. Hassouna, who presented his grandfather to the land of Sudan from the green island from the islands of Andalusia as stated in his classes. In general, this novel offers us a real travel experience in the most exciting and exciting in the corridors of our history of political and social mediator, through the treatment of fiction and artistic dazzling, which makes it valuable to see. Khaldoon90@hotmail.com