The Desert: Or, the Life and Adventures of Jubair Wali Al-MammiHailed as a masterpiece when it was first published in France in 1977, The Desert tells the story of al Mammi, a young exiled prince of a now destroyed Jewish kingdom in southern Morocco in the late fourteenth century. Fighting battles in the service of kings and narrowly escaping imprisonment, the prince travels the Islamic world absorbing lessons, often painfully, on how to govern himself, as well as a country. At that same time, al Mammi engages