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Raḍwā ʿĀshūr (1946 – 2014, Egypt) – Sirāj (1992, English trans. Siraaj: An Arab Tale, 2007). This novel describes Arab…

Binsālim Ḥimmīsh (1948-, Morocco) – Majnūn al-Ḥukm (1989, English trans. The Theocrat, 2005). This novel centers the tyrannic Fatimid caliph

ʿAlā Hlīhill (1974-, Palestine / Israel) – Uwrufwār ʿAkkā (‘Goodbye Acre’, 2014). This historical novel is set during the unsuccessful

ʿAlī Aḥmad Bākthīr’s (1910 – 1969, Egypt) play Al-Malḥama al-Islāmiyyah al-Kubrā ʿUmar (‘The great Islamic epic : Umar’, ) consists

This dynasty was established by Saladin (Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn) following his abolition of the Fatimid Caliphate (see below). Maḥmūd Diyāb’s (1932

Al-Sayyid Walid Abāh (?, Mauritania) – al-Shanqīṭī (‘Chinguetti’, 2021). Named after the historic kasba and medieval trading center located in

Maqbūl Mūsā al-ʿAlawī (1968-, Saudi Arabia) – Ziryāb (‘Ziryab’, 2014). At the centre of this novel is the life of

Muḥammad Farīd Abū Ḥadīd (1893 – 1967, Egypt) – al-Wiʿāʾ al-Marmarī (‘The alabaster vessel’, 1951), tells the story of Sayf

ʿAlī Aḥmad Bākthīr’s (1910 – 1969, Egypt) play al-Silsilah wa al-Ghufrān (‘The chain and forgiveness’, 1951) is set in Egypt