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Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany.*
Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge of the czarist empire, Lev escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan.* He found refuge in Germany, where, writing under the names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, his remarkable books about Islam, de...
Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge of the czarist empire, Lev escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan.* He found refuge in Germany, where, writing under the names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, his remarkable books about Islam, de...
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