The Messenger's Daughter And Three Spiritual Plays

About the Book

A novel of a contemporary young Muslim woman, a physicist whose spiritual quest takes her from the murder of her Father, 'the messenger', in Mecca through Sufi mysticism in Califorina through the rejection of male repression, abuse, and finally, insight into the 'world as One'. Also included in this volume are 3 spiritual plays by Dr.Rife, creatively tracing the tensions of religion, faith and reason: "Hypatia", set in Alexandrian Egypt, pitting the priesthood against the Library of Alexandria scholars; "The Roots of the Crusades", set in Jerusalem, and the last "Constantine: An Act of Conversion" tracing the true story of the Emporer of Rome's dramatic conversion to Christianity.

About the Author

Dr. Patricia Rife has written non-fiction, grant proposals, e-Learning curriculum and in this latest foray into the creative, was inspired by spiritual insights to write a ‘trilogy’ of plays concerning spiritual tensions which reveal a specific historic era’s shift into modernism. A biographer by training, she is the author of Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Boston: Birkhauser, 1991) and over 20 published articles on Nuclear Age history. Dr. Rife has lectured at the Boston University’s Physics Dept.; the American University of Cairo; the University of Hawaii and California State University, where she taught in 6 academic departments. She was a Templeton Foundation ‘Science & Religion Dialogue’ scholar and currently teaches for the University of Maryland University College Graduate School of Management & Technology.