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المسيح الأندلسي
Al-Masih al-Andalusi
Title translated by AI:“The Andalusian Messiah”
Taissier Khalaf · 57 when first published
Novel · 358 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Spain, 1592: after a Morisco woman is tried and killed by the Inquisition, her son, a devout Catholic, begins to doubt the court's story and the words she left him, that he is an Arab Muslim named Issa ibn Muhammad.