1997És probable que el nom de Mani no us digui res. Però paradoxalment, és un nom que encara avui s'utilitza sovint. Qui sinó Mani és a l'origen dels termes "maniqueus" i "maniqueisme"? Metge,...
Samarkand im 11. Jahrhundert: Der bedeutendste Philosoph, Mathematiker und Astronom des Orients, Omar Khajjam, wird als Ungläubiger verfolgt. Seine geheimen und gefährlichen Gedanken hat er im Rubaijat niedergeschrieben, doch die wertvolle Hands...
Amin Maalouf s'interroge sur la notion d'identité, sur les passions qu'elle suscite, sur ses dérives meurtrières. Pourquoi est-il si difficile d'assumer en toute liberté ses diverses appartenances? Pourquoi faut-il,...
"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called...
Mysterious beans are found on the market stalls of the East, to which ancient superstition lends the power of favouring the birth of male children. When a French entomologist obtains a few of these beans, he worries that the world has entered a critical...
'Leo the African' is based on the true life-story of Hasan al-Wazzan, the 16th-century traveller and writer who came to be known as Leo Africanus, or Leo the African. This is a story of pirates, slave-girls and princesses, in a world in a state...