Writings from the Sand, Volume 1

Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt

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Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age. Multilingual (French, German, and Russian), she began studying Arabic language and Islamic culture and eventually converted to Islam and joined a Qadiriyya Sufi brotherhood. Writings from the Sand is the document of a remarkable life and a literary treasure.