The Man From Bashmour: Salwa Bakr - A Modern Arabic Novel (Modern Arabic Literature)

by NancyRoberts (Translator), SalwaBakr (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

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  After an exorbitant land tax imposed on a country of mainly Coptic-speaking Christians by the caliph's governors in ninth-century Egypt sparks a peasant revolt, Bedeir is dispatched to the Nile Delta as an escort for a church-appointed emissary whose mission is to persuade the rebels to lay down their arms.