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"Saïd the fisherman" by Marmaduke William Pickthall is a novel written in the early 20th century. Through Saïd’s brushes with Ottoman soldiers, crafty villagers, a mendicant, and a Christian missionary’s household, the story weighs luck against fate and pokes at human folly with sly humor. Expect vivid local color, moral ambiguity, and an anti-hero propelled as much by vanity as by need. The opening of the novel shows Saïd losing the day’s earnings to galloping officers and then discovering his hidden savings stolen after his wife is lured out by a voice mimicking his friend Abdullah’s—who then “advises” him to flee and opportunistically claims Saïd’s home and gear.
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