The Prisoner of Al Hakim

By Bradley Steffens

Publisher: Blue Dome Press

Imprint: Blue Dome Press

Bradley Steffens's novel is a moving depiction of the life of Ibn Haytham, a great scholar who lived in the Islamic Golden Age, around the tenth century. Taking the reader across the Middle East and North Africa from mosques to libraries to the prisons, the book tells the story of an extraordinary individual whose scientific discoveries laid the foundation of optics in modern physics.

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