My days in Mecca / Ahmad Subaʻi ; edited and translated by Deborah S. Akers and Abubaker A. Bagader.

Includes bibliographical references.

A Note on the Life and Works of Ahmad Suba'i (1905-1984) / Abubaker A. Bagader -- The Kuttab: Traditional Quranic Education in Early Twentieth-Century Mecca / Deborah S. Akers -- My Days in Mecca -- In the Kuttab -- The Fortunate Ones -- Abjad-Hawaz (the ABCs) -- Celebration in the Kuttab -- Auntie Hassinah -- Kuttabs and Teachers -- With the Reciters of the Quran -- 'Abbas: The Classroom Bully -- Perfect Memorization -- In the Advanced School -- Sitti: My Grandmother -- Recklessness -- Bad Luck -- Literature and Knowledge -- A Turning Point -- The Teaching Chair -- Between Journalism and Literature -- In the Sawt al-Hijaz Newspaper -- Letters and Points.

Translated from the Arabic.