... Maalouf did not attempt to paint a picture that support a certain vision of history or advances a certain agenda. This is a common theme in modern day work on history and especially historical fiction. The one agenda that Amin Maalouf may have had in mind and advanced beautifully is that the world is full of wonderful people; they come in different religions, different colors and different ethnicity and they speak different ... as now religion was used as an excuse for the subjugation of neighboring states and their peoples and for personal gain. Beside being a wonderfully setup histori...

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