Professor Adam Nichols of the University of Maryland manages a truly informative blog, http://corsairsandcaptivesblog.com/ in which he has poured a lifetime of scholarship on the subject of North African history through a series of informative posts. The Corsairs and Captives Blog offers an even-handed presentation of slavery and captivity in the Mediterranean of the premodern […]

In An Affair of Honor, Chief Commissioner Muhammad is ordered by the Dey of Algiers to perform several distasteful tasks. In addition, Muhammad undertakes on his own to perform a task he knows is likely to bring the wrath of the Dey on himself. Over a period of about 36 hours, Muhammad finds himself in

Although ANOTHER TOMB IN ALGIERS is a work of fiction, many of the characters and events are drawn from history. A few years ago the National Library in Algiers celebrated the 300th birth anniversary of the famed Sufi Shaykh, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Qashtuli al-Djurdjuri, a central figure in ANOTHER TOMB IN ALGIERS for obvious