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Leo Africanus
This 1986 novel, originally published in French as Léon, l’Africain, is the imagined autobiography of real-life geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wassan (ca. 1494–ca. 1554), whose far-reaching travels in the sixteenth…
Tags: Africa, Europe, interfaith relations, jurist, Leo Africanus, pirates, Pope, Rome, slavery, translator