Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf

Leo Africanus

Amin Maalouf with Peter Sluglett (Translator)

370 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

fiction historical adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
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"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also call...

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