The Halva-Maker RAHIM HAMID But Ayla’s a gardener

But Ayla’s a gardener

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The Halva-Maker RAHIM HAMID But Ayla’s a gardenerThe Halva Maker (in Arabic, Al Halwani, 2022) is a three part novel, contributes through the medium of fiction to this different interpretation of the historical record, in that its third segment, entitled The Kurd, is set during the final years of the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt and the attempts by Amaury (Almaric), Crusader King of Jerusalem, to take advantage of the weaknesses of the Egyptian regime. A central figurethe Kurd of the sections titleis