Roman om geografen Leo Africanus' liv. Leo ble født i 1488 og vokste opp i Fez i Marokko. Senere fulgte han som handelsmann og diplomat de store karavanene gjennom Nord-Afrika - Timbuktu - Kairo - Konstantinopel. I 1518 ble han tatt til fange av pirater og forært til Pave Leo X.…
Based on the life of Hasan al-Wazzan.
"[This novel] is basd on the true life story of Hason al-Wazzan, the sixteenth-century traveller and writer who came to be known as Leo the Africanus, or Leo the African. From his childhood in Fez, having fled the Christian inquisition, through his many journeys to the East as a…
Based on the life of Hasan al-Wazzan.
by Pouillon, Franc̦ois, Messaoudi, Alain, Rauchenberger, Dietrich, Zhiri, Oumelbanine, Colloque Léon l'Africain, Paris), Institut d'études de l'Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman (Paris), Centre d'histoire sociale de l'islam méditerranéen (Paris)
Leo Africanus is a beautiful book of tales about people who are forced to accept choices made for them by someone else ... It relates, particularly at times and often imaginatively, the story of those who did not make it to the New World. Exile and pilgrimage, the power of sexua…
Written in the form of a memoir, this historical novel explores the meeting of two worlds--Islam and Christendom--through the adventures of real-life Arab traveler and geographer Hassan al-Wazzan--From Library Journal.
Overview: "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 called the Granadan, the F…
Written in the form of a memoir, this historical novel explores the meeting of two worlds, Islam and Christendom, through the adventures of real-life Arab traveler and geographer Hassan al-Wazzan.
Overview: "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 called the Granadan, the F…