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Saladin Ahmed (born October 4, 1975) is an American comic book writer and a science fiction/fantasy poetry and prose writer. His 2012 book Throne of the Crescent Moon was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel . [ 4 ]
The book follows Doctor Adoulla Makhslood, an aging ghul hunter based in the city of Dhamsawaat, who would really like to retire from having adventures and quietly drink cardamom tea. Events rapidly transpire to force the Doctor and his assistant, Raseed bas Raseed – a Dervish warrior sworn to a holy path – to face a dark sorcerer.
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In 2000, ibooks Inc. purchased two new installments and the rights to reprint the first eight books of the series; the two new books were published between 2002 and 2006, including a solo novel by John J. Miller. [5] The company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in July 2005, shortly after the death of founder Byron Preiss. [3]
Opening page of the Libellus in the British Library's Cotton MS Cleopatra B. I. The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum (Latin for "Little Book about the Conquest of the Holy Land by Saladin"), also called the Chronicon Terrae Sanctae ("Chronicle of the Holy Land"), is a short anonymous Latin account of the conquests of Saladin (Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn) in the Holy Land between ...
His Majesty's Dragon, published in the UK as Temeraire, is the first novel in the Temeraire alternate history/fantasy series by American author Naomi Novik. [2] The story is set during an alternate-history version of the Napoleonic Wars, in which dragons not only exist but are used as a staple of aerial warfare in Asia and Europe.
He went to live in Mosul and later entered the service of Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt during that time. When Saladin took control of Damascus, Saladin's vizier, al-Qadi al-Fadil, appointed him chancellor, and he also became al-Fadil's deputy. Although Saladin had been unsure of his talent because he was only a scribe, Imad al-Din soon became ...