Baber

Author's name: Ibrahim Ahmed Issa

“I am Yunus… darkness envelops me, and I wonder: Is there any escape?” From a moment of flight, an adventure unfolds, cleaving through the waves, where destinies intersect on a sea ablaze with conflict. Yunus leaves Egypt seeking a heroic act that will immortalize him, but the storms toss him between the swords of the Mamluks and the ships of the Portuguese, advancing towards the Hijaz and India, in a time when only those with cunning or faith… or both, survive. Babur is not the tale of a single hero, but rather the chronicle of a turbulent era: a sultan, a sailor, and people who have faded from the memory of history, their stories remaining as witnesses to the struggle between glory and betrayal, faith and loss. As part of the “Tales of the Forgotten” series, the novel reopens the records of a world whose maps have been redrawn, whose seas have been set ablaze, and whose kingdoms have clashed, in a historical epic stretching from Cairo to India, from Lisbon to Andalusia, and all the way to the New World.