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Overview
Amazingly clean dust jacket preserves this crisp first edition ... very good
Description
The drama of Muslim Spain under attack from a new Christian messiah. Ninth century Spain was the tumultuous battleground between
East and West, Muslim and Christian, saint and infidel. Alaric, the Christian
Goth, wades through the raging sea of religious passion and hate. Admired by the
Moors and employed by the Jews, Alaric is a feared swordsman a scholar and
prophet. Some even claim that he is a saint, but others believe he is the devil.
It might have been better had the Emir, al-Rahman II followed the advice of his
counselors and put Alaric to death. But in the end, the emir, himself, falls
under Alaric’s spell and becomes an unwitting pawn in Arian Christianity’s
ultimate defeat of Islam.
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