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فردقان – اعتقال الشيخ الرئيس
Fardaqan: Itiqal al-Shaykh al-Rais
“Fardaqan: The Detention of the Great Sheikh” (title translated by AI)
Youssef Ziedan (يوسف زيدان, born 1958)
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The life of Avicenna, the polymath called the Great Sheikh, from his birth close to Bukhara to his death in Persia; after two terms as vizier he is locked away in the isolated castle of Fardaqan.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Uzbekistan, Iran
- First published
- 2018 by Dar al-Shorouk
- Author's age
- 60 when first published
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