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Description:: Prisoners used a discarded laundry detergent box to create a cover for a notebook filled with lined writing paper and bound with a piece of blue yarn inserted into two holes and tied in the back. The face of the woman in the picture on the cover has been worn or scraped away. Between numbered pages 42 and 43, there is a separate paper inserted with a note. The notebook contains a handwritten copy of a book that a prisoner wrote before going to prison. In prison, others copied it so they could have their own. The title of the book is written on page 1, Iḥyāʾ Ulum al-Dīn by the Imam Abu Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, part one. The title of the book is different than the content. The author of the book was not actually al-Ghazālī, who was Sunni, but Muhammad Baqr al-Sadr, who was Shiʿi and whose book was banned outside of prison.
Date:: Between 1980 and 1989
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: A Prisoner’s Life in Abu Ghraib
Middle East & North Africa Collections

Description:: Prisoners used a discarded laundry detergent box to create a cover for a notebook. The faces of the women on the cover have been covered by pen scribbling. The notebook contains a handwritten copy of a book that a prisoner wrote before going to prison. In prison, others copied it so they could have their own. The notebook contains a handwritten copy of Iḥyāʾ Ulum al-Dīn by the Imam Abu Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, part two. The title of the book is written on page 1. The title of the book is different than the content. The author of the book was not actually al-Ghazālī, who was Sunni, but Muhammad Baqr al-Sadr, who was Shiʿi and whose book was banned outside of prison.
Date:: Between 1980 and 1989
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: A Prisoner’s Life in Abu Ghraib
Middle East & North Africa Collections

Description:: A spiral notebook with the printed title "Universal" in English. The notebook contains a handwritten copy of a book. The notebook has the printed title "Universal" in English, but in Arabic it is a "university" notebook, mistranslated into English. The contents include Islamic fiqh. An unfinished drawing is at the end.
Date:: Between 1980 and 1989
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: A Prisoner’s Life in Abu Ghraib
Middle East & North Africa Collections

Description:: Handwritten letter on paper ripped from a notebook that Adnan wrote to his eldest son Mohammad. Adnan promised his son a bicycle if he did well on his exams, but the letter took two years to arrive and his son already had a bicycle by then.
Date:: Between 1980 and 1989
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: A Prisoner’s Life in Abu Ghraib
Middle East & North Africa Collections

Description:: A short handwritten note that Adnan wrote to his wife, and a note to the wife of another prisoner. Adnan tells them that they need to put the other message he sent in the sun so that they can read the invisible ink. They destroyed the note with the invisible ink.
Date:: Between 1980 and 1989
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: A Prisoner’s Life in Abu Ghraib
Middle East & North Africa Collections

Description:: Prisoners used a discarded jello box to create a cover for a notebook, fastened together with a medical bandage glued to the inside of the cover. The notebook contains a handwritten copy of a book entitled ʿIlm al-Maʿānī. The title is written in large letters on page one. The first 11 of the 45 pages have writing. Starting from the back, the last four pages contain writing, upside down. This was the last notebook they used and they did not fill it.
Date:: Between 1980 and 1989
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: A Prisoner’s Life in Abu Ghraib
Middle East & North Africa Collections

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