Hadiqat al-Nour (Gardens of Light, Ar) حدائق النور

Overview

Arabic
By: Amin Maalouf, Translation: Nahla Baydoun
Softcover
306 pp
Dar Al Farabi, Beirut, 2009 Arabic Edition c.1991
14 x 21 cm
978-9953-438-03-0 / 9789953438030
Historical Novel - Selected Translation

"Les Jardins de Lumiere", translated from the French, a novel by the Lebanese author Amin Maalouf. In this novel, Maalouf recreates the life of Mesopotamian, Mani (216-276 CE), who finds himself in conflict with the beliefs of his community as he developed his tolerant Manichaean religion, and who was eventually executed for heresy.

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