The Lanterns of the King of Galilee: A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine

by Ibrahim Nasrallah

In eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee's Lake Tiberias, visionary political and military leader Dahir al-Umar al-Zaydani undertakes a journey toward the greatest aim anyone could hope to achieve in his day: the establishment of an autonomous Arab state. To do so he must challenge the rule of the greatest power in the world at the time-the Ottoman Empire-while translating the ideals of human dignity, justice, and religious tolerance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774166663
• ISBN13: 9789774166662
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"