Record Number: 33567
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Ahmed and I talked together and read the Quran, when he would put on his tarbush, put out his cigarette, and be careful that the Book should not be touched except with clean hands nor laid aside under any other book.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Apr 1934 and 31 Dec 1934
Country:Yemen
Timedaytime
Place:city: Aden
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:24 Jan 1906
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Wife of the British political agent of Aden and daughter of the Liberal Home Secretary, Edward Shortt
Writer, traveller, Arabist, and aide to the political agent in Aden
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Yemen
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Koran
Genre:Other religious
Form of Text:Print: Book, Read in Arabic
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:33567
Source:Doreen Ingrams
Editor:n/a
Title:A Time in Arabia: Life in Hadhramaut
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:2013
Vol:n/a
Page:5
Additional Comments:
Pagination is from the 2013 new edition. First publication in London by John Murray, 1970.
Citation:
Doreen Ingrams, A Time in Arabia: Life in Hadhramaut, (London, 2013), p. 5, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33567, accessed: 17 January 2025
Additional Comments:
Doreen Constance Ingrams nee Shortt (1906-1997) was the wife of the British political agent Harold Ingrams. Ahmed was a dispensing chemist who gave Doreen regular conversational Arabic lessons in the Adeni dialect, as well as reading the Qu'ran together in classical Arabic. The shared reading took place in the Ingrams' home in the 'Crater' district of Aden.
