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Leo the African by Amin Maalouf; Peter Sluglett (trans) - September 1994
by Amin Maalouf; Peter Sluglett (trans)
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Leo the African
by Amin Maalouf; Peter Sluglett (trans)
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New York: Abacus, September 1994. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight, but creased. Covers clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 360 pages.
This fictional autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan. Born in Granada in 1488, his family fled the Inquisition and took him to Fez, in North Africa. Hasan became an itinerant merchant, and made many journeys to the East, journeys rich in adventure and observation in a world in a state of religious flux. He was captured by a Sicilian pirate and taken back to Rome as a gift to Pope Leo X, who baptized him Johannes Leo. While in Rome, he wrote the first trilingual dictionary (Latin, Arabic and Hebrew), as well as his celebrated Description of Africa, for which he is still remembered as Leo Africanus. In re-creating Hasan's extraordinary experiences, Amin Maalouf sketches an irrisistible portrait of the Mediterranean world as it was nearly five centuries ago - the fall of Granada, the Ottoman conquest of Egypt, Renaissance Rome under the Medicis: all contribute to a background of spectacular colour, matched only by the picaresque adventures of Hasan's life.
This fictional autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan. Born in Granada in 1488, his family fled the Inquisition and took him to Fez, in North Africa. Hasan became an itinerant merchant, and made many journeys to the East, journeys rich in adventure and observation in a world in a state of religious flux. He was captured by a Sicilian pirate and taken back to Rome as a gift to Pope Leo X, who baptized him Johannes Leo. While in Rome, he wrote the first trilingual dictionary (Latin, Arabic and Hebrew), as well as his celebrated Description of Africa, for which he is still remembered as Leo Africanus. In re-creating Hasan's extraordinary experiences, Amin Maalouf sketches an irrisistible portrait of the Mediterranean world as it was nearly five centuries ago - the fall of Granada, the Ottoman conquest of Egypt, Renaissance Rome under the Medicis: all contribute to a background of spectacular colour, matched only by the picaresque adventures of Hasan's life.
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- Publisher Abacus
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published September 1994
- Pages 360 pages
- Size 8vo
- Keywords Léon l'Africain, Leo Africanus, Hasan al-Wazzan, fiction, biographical fiction, historical fiction, discoveries, discovery, explorers, exploration, geography, religion, Morocco, Africa
- Size 8vo
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