ISBN: 9798174022256 - the falcon of quraysh: the hunted prince who fled an empire and built muslim spain from nothing (6 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What if the worst thing that ever happened to you turned out to be the thing that finally taught you how to build a home You know what it is to lose something you cannot get back. Maybe it was not an empire. Maybe it was a family, a country, a version of your life you assumed would always be there, until one terrible season it was not.In the summer of 750, a nineteen-year-old swam the Euphrates with soldiers on the bank behind him. His brother turned back for a promise of safety. Abd al-Rahman kept swimming, and came up alone on the far shore with no throne, no army, and a name he could not safely speak aloud. Five years later, after Palestine and Egypt and the whole length of North Africa, he landed on a beach in southern Spain with one loyal freedman and an unprovable claim. Eight months after that, he was ruling a country.This is a narrative retelling of his life, grounded in the documented history and brought to life scene by scene: the river, the five hidden years, the mule he rode into battle so his men would know he could not run, the palm tree he spent a fortune bringing across a sea, and the thirty-two years of governing that turned a province of exhausted rivals into the beginning of one of the great civilizations of the medieval world.It is not told as a triumph. It is told as the far harder, far more human thing: grief and ambition, refusing to cancel each other out.- Recognize the specific ache of a home you can never fully return to, and the quiet pride of building a new one anyway- Watch a young man who lost everything learn, one impossible year at a time, that surviving and rebuilding are not the same skill- Feel what it costs to lead people who are still deciding whether to trust a stranger with a fading name- Understand why a single transplanted palm tree became the truest measure of an entire life's work- Sit with an ending that does not resolve the grief so much as prove it was never the opposite of triumphThis is a book for anyone who has ever had to start completely over, and wondered whether the ache and the pride of what came after could live in the same heart at once.Some rivers only take. This one, somehow, also gave.Open the first page. The water is waiting.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the worst thing that ever happened to you turned out to be the thing that finally taught you how to build a home?You know what it is to lose something you cannot get back. Maybe it was not an empire. Maybe it was a family, a country, a version of your life you assumed would always be there, until one terrible season it was not.In the summer of 750, a nineteen-year-old swam the Euphrates with soldiers on the bank behind him. His brother turned back for a promise of safety. Abd al-Rahman kept swimming, and came up alone on the far shore with no throne, no army, and a name he could not safely speak aloud. Five years later, after Palestine and Egypt and the whole length of North Africa, he landed on a beach in southern Spain with one loyal freedman and an unprovable claim. Eight months after that, he was ruling a country.This is a narrative retelling of his life, grounded in the documented history and brought to life scene by scene: the river, the five hidden years, the mule he rode into battle so his men would know he could not run, the palm tree he spent a fortune bringing across a sea, and the thirty-two years of governing that turned a province of exhausted rivals into the beginning of one of the great civilizations of the medieval world.It is not told as a triumph. It is told as the far harder, far more human thing: grief and ambition, refusing to cancel each other out.Recognize the specific ache of a home you can never fully return to, and the quiet pride of building a new one anywayWatch a young man who lost everything learn, one impossible year at a time, that surviving and rebuilding are not the same skillFeel what it costs to lead people who are still deciding whether to trust a stranger with a fading nameUnderstand why a single transplanted palm tree became the truest measure of an entire life's workSit with an ending that does not resolve the grief so much as prove it was never the opposite of triumphThis is a book for anyone who has ever had to start completely over, and wondered whether the ache and the pride of what came after could live in the same heart at once.Some rivers only take. This one, somehow, also gave.Open the first page. The water is waiting. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the worst thing that ever happened to you turned out to be the thing that finally taught you how to build a home?You know what it is to lose something you cannot get back. Maybe it was not an empire. Maybe it was a family, a country, a version of your life you assumed would always be there, until one terrible season it was not.In the summer of 750, a nineteen-year-old swam the Euphrates with soldiers on the bank behind him. His brother turned back for a promise of safety. Abd al-Rahman kept swimming, and came up alone on the far shore with no throne, no army, and a name he could not safely speak aloud. Five years later, after Palestine and Egypt and the whole length of North Africa, he landed on a beach in southern Spain with one loyal freedman and an unprovable claim. Eight months after that, he was ruling a country.This is a narrative retelling of his life, grounded in the documented history and brought to life scene by scene: the river, the five hidden years, the mule he rode into battle so his men would know he could not run, the palm tree he spent a fortune bringing across a sea, and the thirty-two years of governing that turned a province of exhausted rivals into the beginning of one of the great civilizations of the medieval world.It is not told as a triumph. It is told as the far harder, far more human thing: grief and ambition, refusing to cancel each other out.Recognize the specific ache of a home you can never fully return to, and the quiet pride of building a new one anywayWatch a young man who lost everything learn, one impossible year at a time, that surviving and rebuilding are not the same skillFeel what it costs to lead people who are still deciding whether to trust a stranger with a fading nameUnderstand why a single transplanted palm tree became the truest measure of an entire life's workSit with an ending that does not resolve the grief so much as prove it was never the opposite of triumphThis is a book for anyone who has ever had to start completely over, and wondered whether the ache and the pride of what came after could live in the same heart at once.Some rivers only take. This one, somehow, also gave.Open the first page. The water is waiting. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…