A story virtually unknown in the West, about two of the Middle East s most remarkable figures Oman s Sultan Said and his rebellious daughter Princess Salme comes to life in this narrative. From their capital on the sultry African island of Zanzibar, Sultan Said and his descendants were shadowed and all but shattered by the rise and fall of the nineteenth-century East African slave trade.
As shrewd, liberal, and enlightened a prince as Arabia has ever produced. That s how explorer Richard Burton described Seyyid.
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