Discusses the development of the trade routes known as the Nile Route, Sudan Route, Incense Road, Pilgrimage Road, and Sahara Routes, with an overview of their social and economic history up to the present day.
A collection of bedtime stories told by Shahrazad to her husband the king in an effort to keep him from having her killed as he had done with all his other wives after a single night of marriage.
Motivated by jealousy and the desire to receive acclaim as a great poet, Walid ibn Huyr, a prince of ancient Arabia, commits acts which completely change the course of his life.