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The Book Smuggler
Omaima Al-Khamis
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The American University in Cairo Press 
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
A magical story of a Crusade-era bookseller who embarks on a journey through the Islamic world’s great medieval cities, winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
In the epic fashion of the great Arab explorers and travel writers of the Middle Ages, scribe and bookworm Mazid al-Hanafi narrates this journey from his remote village in the Arabian Desert. Dreaming of grand libraries, his passion for the written word draws him into a secret society of book smugglers and into the famed cultural capitals of the period—Baghdad, Jerusalem, Cairo, Granada, and Cordoba.
He discovers a dangerous new world of ideas and experiences the cultural diversity of the Islamic Golden Age, its sects, philosophical schools, wars, and ways of life.
Omaima Al-Khamis’s magical storytelling and her vivid descriptions of time and place trace a route through ancient cities and cultures and immerse us in a distant era, uncovering the intellectual debates and struggles which continue to rage today.
Kundenbewertungen
My Name is Red, Baghdad, Hoopoe, Longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, journey through the medieval Arab world, Ibn Battuta, Middle East, Arabic Booker, IPAF, women writers, historic Arab travel writers, from the Arabian peninsula to Andalusia, listerature-in-translation, Literature in Translation, religious and philosophical debates, Historical, Islamic Empire, The Arabian Nights, Hamnet, Fiction, Islamic history, Smugglers, Jerusalem, diverse cultures, Voyages and travels, Booksellers and bookselling, hero's epic journey, Scribes, historical settings, Literary, Voyage of the Cranes in the Cities of Agate, MENA, world literature, The Name of the Rose, Cairo, Cordoba, Orham Pamuk, Masra al-Gharaniq fi Mudun al-'Aqiq, Winner of the Mahfouz Medal for literature