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(3.25) | 7 | It's the early part of the nineteenth century and the Arabian Peninsula and the waters surrounding it are ablaze. Piracy in the Gulf threatens global maritime trade routes while the Wahabbi strain of Islam is conquering followers town by town across the region. Britain, eager to reinforce its presence in the Middle East and protect the East India Company's ships, has a plan: send a man-of-war from England to quash the pirates while persuading Egypt to join an international alliance with Oman and Persia to fight the Wahabbis. At the center of it all lies a priceless Indian sword, a gift from the British monarch to the Egyptian Pasha. But Erhama bin Jaber, a historical figure and one of the most notorious pirates in the Gulf, has his own agenda and his own vendettas. When the Arabian corsair and his gang attack a ship carrying the sword, Britain's complex strategy goes terribly awry. As the pirates and British officials shuttle between ports throughout the region, plans and alliances are made and unmade as quickly as a rainstorm in the desert. In a grueling trudge across Arabia, an unlikely friendship is forged between Erhama's rebellious son and a British army major. This story of high-seas piracy and political intrigue, of unexpected kinship and personal betrayal, portrays the conflicting interests and human drama of these historic events in the Arabian Peninsula.… (mer) |
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One of the advantages for an author from a strict Salafi/Wahhabi Muslim state writing fictionalised history is that he can explore politics and human nature more freely than would be accepted in non-fiction, although he seems to have tried to portray the Wahhabi politicians more favourably than his other characters. There are no irredeemable villains or unbelievable heroes in this book, and individuals have multiple motivations both personal and political. The outside interference and reprisals to secure British Empire trade routes, the incoming influence of Wahhabi religious and cultural ideas, and the military imposition of Ottoman imperialism, are all shown as disrupting the uneasy regional balance of power. Nor does the author gloss over the violence of piracy and raiding, the widespread existence of slavery and racism (including Arab racism against Black Africans and Indians, including Muslims), or the stark contrast between the bare subsistence of poor fishing communities and the luxuries of their often self-declared rulers. The author, unfortunately, also includes his own presumably subconscious misogyny and one or two misreadings of historical culture based in that misogyny, although as only three women have brief speaking roles this doesn't make more than a passing difference (and to be fair that's still more women characters than in many "classic" adventure novels, especially historicals).
For me this was a mildly interesting read for the history and Qatari cultural influences but a slightly below average novel, although readers focused on the adventure aspect might enjoy it more than I did.
Enquiring minds etc: did the Arab pirate Rahmah ibn Jabir wear an eyepatch? YES. ( )