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The Mercy of Allah

The Mercy of Allah

Belloc, Hilaire

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9791043138089
Publisher: Les Prairies Numeriques
Published: Mar 1 2026
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Mercy of Allah by Hilaire Belloc is a humorous, satirical novel on the methods by which the merchant Mahmoud rises from humble beginnings to massive wealth. The setting in a fictionalized Middle East provides deeply-Catholic author Hilaire Belloc a far-off land in which to attack what he saw as the rapacious nature of the British businessmen, industrialists, and bankers of his day.Each episode of Mahmoud's life satirizes greed, from small frauds and outright theft, to market manipulation, money-printing, and funding both sides in a long war. Mahmoud justifies all his dealings as simply the way things are: For Allah, in his inscrutable choice, frowns on some and smiles on others. The first he condemns to contempt, anxiety, duns, bills, courts of law, sudden changes of residence and even dungeons; the second he gratifies with luxurious vehicles, delicious sherbet and enormous houses, such as mine.First published in 1922, this satire fits into Hilaire Belloc's growing advocacy for the economic and social philosophy of distributism. It was selected as one of four books by Belloc for Arnold Bennett and Frank Swinnerton's influential Literary Taste: How to Form It.The Mercy of Allah by Hilaire Belloc is a humorous, satirical novel on the methods by which the merchant Mahmoud rises from humble beginnings to massive wealth. The setting in a fictionalized Middle East provides deeply-Catholic author Hilaire Belloc a far-off land in which to attack what he saw as the rapacious nature of the British businessmen, industrialists, and bankers of his day.Each episode of Mahmoud's life satirizes greed, from small frauds and outright theft, to market manipulation, money-printing, and funding both sides in a long war. Mahmoud justifies all his dealings as simply the way things are: For Allah, in his inscrutable choice, frowns on some and smiles on others. The first he condemns to contempt, anxiety, duns, bills, courts of law, sudden changes of residence and even dungeons; the second he gratifies with luxurious vehicles, delicious sherbet and enormous houses, such as mine.First published in 1922, this satire fits into Hilaire Belloc's growing advocacy for the economic and social philosophy of distributism. It was selected as one of four books by Belloc for Arnold Bennett and Frank Swinnerton's influential Literary Taste: How to Form It.

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