The Duniazát

Home > Fiction > The Duniazát
The Duniazát The Duniazát

Author: Salman Rushdie

Category: Fiction

Published: 2015

Series:

View: 181

Read Online
In the year 1195, the great philosopher Ibn Rushd, once the qadi, or judge, of Seville and most recently the personal physician to the Caliph Abu Yusuf Yaqub in his home town of Córdoba, was formally discredited and disgraced on account of his liberal ideas, which were unacceptable to the increasingly powerful Berber fanatics who were spreading like a pestilence across Arab Spain, and was sent to live in internal exile in the small village of Lucena, a village full of Jews who could no longer say they were Jews because they had been forced to convert to Islam.

List Chapter or Page:

Page 1Page 2 View More >>