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Reviewed on May 1, 2021 | Interlocking Stories
Set in the early 1000s AD (early 400s AH), Saudi Arabian author Al-Khamis's richly detailed work joins Mazid al-Hanafi, a self-professed seeker of knowledge, as he flees Baghdad with a chest full of philosophical and putatively heretical tomes that he carries for a mysterious freethinking group called the Voyagers. His caravan is headed toward Jerusalem, and though he would like to stop at Damascus, whose Syriac Ca...Log In or Sign Up to Read More