Ibrahim Al Koni: 8 books

In the ancient Egyptian religion, Seth is the evil god who out of jealousy slays his brother Osiris, the good god of agriculture, to seize the throne. Seth is, however, also the god of the desert and therefore a benevolent champion of desert dwellers like the traditionally nomadic Kel Tamasheq, better...

Upon the death of their leader, a group of Tuareg, a nomadic Berber community whose traditional homeland is the Sahara Desert, turns to the heir dictated by tribal custom; however, he is a poet reluctant to don the mantle of leadership. Forced by tribal elders to abandon not only his poetry but his love,...

The Scarecrow is the final volume of Ibrahim al-Koni's Oasis trilogy, which chronicles the founding, flourishing, and decline of a Saharan oasis. Fittingly, this continuation of a tale of greed and corruption opens with a meeting of the conspirators who assassinated the community's leader at the end...

A Tuareg youth ventures into trackless desert on a life-threatening quest to find the father he remembers only as a shadow from his childhood, but the spirit world frustrates and tests his resolve. For a time, he is rewarded with the Eden of a lost oasis, but eventually, as new settlers crowd in,...

»Die Magier« ist das Hauptwerk des libyschen Autors Ibrahim al-Koni. Ein gewaltiges Epos, das Geschichte und Mythos, Weisheit und Tradition, Denken und Handeln einer der grossen, in ihrer Existenz bedrohten Nomadenkulturen der Welt festhält. Ein Werk mit der Kraft antiker Epen, verbunden mit neuzeitlicher...

Die Anthologie vereint ausgewählte Texte namhafter arabischer Autoren, die die Wüste als Lebensraum in den Blick rücken. Jenseits der Perspektive des fremden Bewunderers entdecken sie die stille Weite als Schauplatz unterschiedlichster Ereignisse und bieten einen wunderbaren Einstieg in Perlen arabischer...

Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Sahara. Between bloody wars against the Italians in the north and famine raging in the south, Ukhayyad rides for the remote rock caves of Jebel Hasawna....

The Puppet, a mythic tale of greed and political corruption, traces the rise, flourishing, and demise of a Saharan oasis community. Aghulli, a noble if obtuse man who has been chosen leader of the oasis, hankers after the traditional nomadic pastoralist life of the Tuareg. He sees commerce (understood...