by Manuel Pimentel · Books4pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492801114
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In the year 1337, Abu Isaq Es Saheli from Granada arrives in the city of Fez as ambassador of Emperor Kanku Mussa. After being received with full honors, he falls victim to a plot against his life. While recovering, Es Saheli will write his own Rihla, the story of his life as a walker: his childhood as the son of the alamin of the perfumers' guild of Granada, his tormented youth, early success and the excesses of bohemia, painful exile, his trip to Cairo, his passage through Damascus, Baghdad, Yemen and Mecca, his passion for Egyptian architecture... Until leading to his main legacy: the construction of the great mosque of Timbuktu. The life of Es Saheli is as exciting as that of Leo the African and other medieval geniuses. The pages of this are an invitation to be flooded by the fragrances of the spirit of Al Andalus and the serene mystery of Africa.
Manuel Ramón Pimentel Siles is a Spanish politician and writer. He served as Minister of Labour and Social of Spain from January 1999 to February 2000. In March 2003, Pimentel abandoned the People's Party (PP) in protest over the Irak War crisis, forming his own party, the Andalusian Forum.
