L'émir et les croisés

The voice of the Hafsid ruler Abu Abdallah, who took the title al-Mustansir billah, "victorious through God", carries across the centuries. Day by day, glorious or dark, the story of his reign shows the man behind the monarch: his passionate love for the poet Sara of Aleppo, and the shrewd politics with which he faced the crusade of Saint Louis at Carthage. Around him lives a splendid age in which, as Ibn Khaldun wrote, princes of Europe and Africa, Andalusian artists and scholars and merchants sought shelter under the power of the emir. Drawing on the chronicles of the 13th century, the book mixes ordinary days and human folly into the sweep of history.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

267 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Tunisia, 13th century

First published

2003 by Clairefontaine

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9789973834027 (original)