Alroy: The Prince of the Captivity

An 1833 historical romance by Benjamin Disraeli, set in twelfth-century Persia, about David Alroy, a descendant of the Princes of the Captivity, the exiled Jewish leaders in Bagdad, as he rises amid the decline of the Caliphate and the Seljuk empires.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic historical novels›Middle Ages, 500 to 1500›Byzantium, the Crusades, and the Islamic world

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Bibliophiles›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic historical novels›Middle Ages, 500 to 1500›Byzantium, the Crusades, and the Islamic world