Azazel's novel

This book, which I recommended to be published after my death, includes a faithful translation as much as possible of the group of scrolls that were discovered ten years ago in the archaeological ruins located to the northwest of the Syrian city of Aleppo ... Similar to it, even though it was written in the first half of the fifth century AD ... preserved in a wooden box, sealed, in which the Egyptian monk of origin deposited Hiba, a codified account of a strange biography and an unintended history of the anxious facts of his life and the vicissitudes of his turbulent time ...

Youssef Zaidan is a writer and researcher specializing in Arab heritage and manuscripts, born in Sohag, southern Egypt, in 1958. He has many books and scientific researches in Islamic thought, mysticism, and the history of medicine and science among the Arabs, and the indexing of libraries has approached fifty books and eighty research papers, and this is his second novel.