Jurji Zaidan

• Oct-2011
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It is Christmas Day in the year 710 AD in Toledo, capital of Visigoth Spain. King Wittiza has been dethroned, and the impulsive and tyrannical Roderic has been installed as monarch of Spain with the help of the Catholic clergy. Even so, Bishop Oppas,...

• Apr-2012
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It is the year 732 AD. Ten years after the Arab conquest of Spain in 711AD, Emir Abd al-Rahman Governor of Spain, conquered and became Governor of southern France. He is moving northwards towards Poitiers to confront the Franks under Charles Martel a...

• Apr-2012
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It is 803 AD in Baghdad in the closing years of the glorious reign of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid best known in the western world as the caliph whose court is described in the Arabian Nights. His reign represented the peak of ‘Abbasid power in a cal...

• Apr-2012
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This historical romantic novel is set at the time of Saladin, the great religious reformer, mythical leader and unifier of an Islamic world in disarray by political and social contradictions at the beginning of the twelfth century. Princess Sittalmul...

• May-2012
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It is 809 AD in Baghdad, the capital of the ‘Abbasid Empire. The famed Caliph Harun al-Rashid has died. His successor, al-Amin, son of his Hashemite Arab wife, had promised the Caliph that he would appoint his half-brother al-Ma’mun, born to a sl...

• Feb-2015
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Available in English for the first time, a classic from Arabic fiction.

From the moment Hammad laid eyes upon Princess Hind, he fell deeply in love with her.

His only wish was to be by her side, so he entered a horse race hel...