Cleopatra: Queen of Kings

by A.R. Azzam

As a young woman, Cleopatra dazzled the great Caesar by rolling herself up in a carpet in order to gain an audience with him. Later, she enchanted Mark Antony, so beginning one of the most famous love stories in history, and also one of the most tragic. This is a fascinating tale of a mighty empire, an ancient land, two Roman generals, and a beautiful queen of Egypt.

22 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1998

About the author

Dr Abdul Rahman Azzam is a graduate of Oxford University where he completed his BA and PhD in history. He is the author of RUMI AND THE KINGDOM OF JOY (Muhammadi Trust, 2000) and in 2007 Longman published his biography of Saladin to critical acclaim. The Edinburgh Evening News called it ‘a comprehensive survey not just of the man, but of the age in which he lived’, the FT Weekend described it as ‘absorbing’ and The Irish News praised the book as ‘timely and well-written'. SALADIN was a bestseller when published in Arabic and was selected in Jordan as one of the top one hundred books on Islam. THE OTHER EXILE, about the St Helena Island hermit, Fernão Lopes, a real-life Robinson Crusoe, was published in May 2017, and he is working on THE RETURN OF SEBASTIAN.