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Leo Africanus. Amin Maalouf. “ I have aced all my essays and writing assignments since using SuperSummary. The guide themes, chapter outlines and character summaries are more detailed than other sites.”. Tiffany E. College Student. “ SuperSummary guides are very thorough, accurate, and easy to understand and navigate.  · I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages." Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan, who was born in Granada in ISBN Leo Africanus, a title also sometimes translated into English as Leo the African, is a work of historical fiction by the Lebanese-French journalist Amin Maalouf. It was first published in French as Léon, l’Africain in , and the English translation by Peter Sluglett was published in

Amin Maalouf, a Lebanese writer who has chosen to live in Paris and who writes in French, is infatuated by the character of Hasan al-Wazzan for a similar reason: Leo Africanus gives him the key to an imagined, tantalizing world, far away from the relentlessly real, albeit surrealistic, world of today's Lebanon. Mr. material.5 A modern historical novel about Leo Africanus was written by the Lebanese-French author Amin Maalouf.6 The Early Years Leo Africanus was born in Islamic Spain, in the city of Granada, or so he himself claimed About Amin Maalouf. Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese-born French writer who has lived in France since After the success of his first work, Leo Africanus, Maalouf went on to receive the Prix Goncourt in for The Rock of Tanios and the Prince of Asturius Award. Many of his novels are heavily influenced by his personal experience of.

Leo Africanus, a title also sometimes translated into English as Leo the African, is a work of historical fiction by the Lebanese-French journalist Amin Maalouf. It was first published in French as Léon, l’Africain in , and the English translation by Peter Sluglett was published in Leo Africanus (French: Léon l'Africain) is a novel by Amin Maalouf, written in the form of a memoir, depicting the life of the eponymous Renaissance -era traveler, Leo Africanus. Since very little is actually known about the life of Leo, the book fills in the historical episodes, placing him in the company of many of the key historical—political and cultural—figures of his time, including Popes Leo X, Adrian VI, and Clement VII; Ottoman emperors Selim I and Suleiman the Magnificent;. Amin Maalouf, a Lebanese writer who has chosen to live in Paris and who writes in French, is infatuated by the character of Hasan al-Wazzan for a similar reason: Leo Africanus gives him the key to an imagined, tantalizing world, far away from the relentlessly real, albeit surrealistic, world of today's Lebanon. Mr.