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PRODUCTION: Laura Conboy, Melissa Gart, Maureen Kelly, Robyn Mathews, Peter Mitchel (Managers); Martin Barbieri, Jean Brown, Lisa Caplan, Chris Caratzas, Jackie Daniels, Khadija Drayton, Andrew Dyer, Joe Eugenio, Elena Falaro, Sherry Gamlin, Jill Gerlin, Wil Gipp, Mark Glatzhofer, Patrick Hickey, Tracy Kelliher, Angie Licausi, Pam Perry, Eve Rabinovits, Terry Skrapits, Patty Stevens, Diamond Vertsonis, Juanita Weems
...wives of the Prophet Muhammad were vibrant, outspoken women. His first, Khadija, ran a prosperous trading business and at one point was Muhammad's employer. A'isha, the Prophet's favorite, was at various times a judge, a political activist and a warrior. Among Muhammad's 11 other wives and concubines were a leatherworker, an imam and an advocate of the downtrodden, revered in her day as the "Mother of the Poor...
...hero and heroine are Omar ben Allel and his wife Dawia, who live with six of their children in three rooms in a ramshackle section of the city. The key child is their daughter, Khadija, her parents' "most negotiable piece of property." As a 13-year-old virgin, she should fetch a handsome bride price -but then she is abducted...
...parents recover Khadija, no longer in negotiable condition, and immediately plunge into hilarious legal struggles to reassert her virginity. To their astonishment, they discover that the girl still has suitors. In fact, by the book's end, Omar is counting up the dowry. The wedding ritual is complete with the virgin's epithalamium-the book's title...
...months. She had come to Meknes with her anthropologist husband, Vincent Crapanzano, who was doing field work. In the book the Crapanzanos are thinly disguised as M. and Mme. Hugh, young American writers living near by. As Western pragmatists, they make ideal foils for the other characters. When Khadija vanishes, M. Hugh wants to charge down to the police station to start the wheels of orderly investigation. Having saved face by blaming the calamity on various "invisibles," or devils jealous of Khadija, the family prefers methods far more circuitous and transcendental...