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Leo Africanus
by Amin Maalouf
- LITERATURE
- 1992
- PAPER
- 360 PAGES
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A fictional memoir documenting the first 40 years in the life of Leo Africanus (or Leo the African), a Muslim scholar whose travels lead him throughout the Mediterranean and North Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. Based on a real-life figure, Leo is witness to many of the revolutionary changes and figures in the Western world of the period.
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