Book cover: Blue with illustration of a woman in white dress, gold jewelry and black cloak.

A royal enchantress : the romance of the last queen of the Berbers

Date1900

Names

Dessar, Leo Charles, 1847-1924 (author)

Justice, Martin (illustrator)

Continental Publishing Company (publisher)

Kāhina, Queen of the Berbers, active 7th century (subject)

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Book

Notes

A fictionalized biography of the real Queen Kahina, a Jewish queen of a Berber tribe who resisted the Muslim invasion of Algeria in the 7th century. In this story, Kahina (or Cahina, as spelled in the novel) is able to see into the past and the future.

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