The Qadi and the Fortune Teller by Nabil Saleh

The Qadi and the Fortune Teller

Nabil Saleh

147 pages first pub 1996 (view editions)

fiction historical challenging informative slow-paced
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A leather-bound manuscript is found hidden in a wall of a house in the rubble of Beirut in the late 1970s. It is the diary of a Muslim judge in Ottoman Beirut during 1843--a critical time for the Ottoman Empire and the European powers. The judge i...

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