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Amin Maalouf

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Born

in Beirut, Lebanon

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Literature & Fiction, History, Nonfiction

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Charles Dickens, Thomas Mann, Omar Khayyám, Léon Tolstoï, Marguerite Y ...more

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Amin Maalouf (Arabic: أمين معلوف; alternate spelling Amin Maluf) is a Lebanese journalist and novelist. He writes and publishes primarily in French.

Most of Maalouf's books have a historical setting, and like Umberto Eco, Orhan Pamuk, and Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Maalouf mixes fascinating historical facts with fantasy and philosophical ideas. In an interview Maalouf has said that his role as a writer is to create "positive myths". Maalouf's works, written with the skill of a master storyteller, offer a sensitive view of the values and attitudes of different cultures in the Middle East, Africa and Mediterranean world. ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 128,867 ratings · 12,427 reviews · 78 distinct works • Similar authors

	Samarkand by Amin Maalouf (Goodreads Author), Russell Harris (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 31,273 ratings — published 1988 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf (Goodreads Author), Peter Sluglett (translator) 4.21 avg rating — 16,485 ratings — published 1986 — 130 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	الهويات القاتلة by Amin Maalouf (Goodreads Author), أمين معلوف 3.90 avg rating — 12,865 ratings — published 1998 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doğu'nun Limanları 4.16 avg rating — 11,616 ratings — published 1996 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crusades Through Arab Eyes 4.21 avg rating — 10,430 ratings — published 1983 — 130 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	التائهون by Amin Maalouf (Goodreads Author), أمين معلوف, نهلة بيضون (ترجمة) 4.17 avg rating — 9,490 ratings — published 2007 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rock of Tanios 3.98 avg rating — 8,112 ratings — published 1993 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf (Goodreads Author), Barbara Bray (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 5,785 ratings — published 2000 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gardens of Light 3.87 avg rating — 4,849 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	غرق الحضارات by Amin Maalouf (Goodreads Author), نهلة بيضون (ترجمة) 4.15 avg rating — 3,135 ratings — published 2019 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“فحتى عندما لا نبصر نورا في نهاية النفق يجب أن نؤمن بأن النور لابد أن يظهر ”
― أمين معلوف, موانئ المشرق

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“لا تعجب لشيء، إن للحقيقة و جهين، و للناس أيضا”
― Amin Maalouf, Samarkand

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“هذا هو بالضبط ! فوسائل الإعلام تعكس مايقوله الناس ، والناس يرددون ماتقوله وسائل الإعلام . ألم نسأم أبداً لعبة المرايا العاكسة هذه التي تقوم بتبليد العقول ؟”
― أمين معلوف

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Vote for the March / April 2025 BotMs

The top two vote recipients will become the Books of the Month for the period in question. Please vote for a book only if you can access it in time, and plan to contribute to the discussion.

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
by Evan Friss

10 votes, 21.3%

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
by Amin Maalouf

10 votes, 21.3%

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
by Hampton Sides

7 votes, 14.9%

Empireworld: How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe
by Sathnam Sanghera

5 votes, 10.6%

The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness
by Peter Matthiessen

5 votes, 10.6%

Superlative: The Biology of Extremes
by Matthew D. LaPlante

5 votes, 10.6%

The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory
by Thomas Fuller

5 votes, 10.6%

47 total votes

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