Under the Crescent: A Novel

A sweeping epic of exile, endurance, and truth forgotten. From one of the most courageous and controversial historians of our time comes an electrifying trilogy of novels-Moïse, Élie, and Ghazal-that bring to life the vanished world of Middle Eastern Jewry and its dramatic dissolution under the rising tide of Arab nationalism and Islamist totalitarianism. Bat Ye’or-“Daughter of the Nile,” exile of Nasser’s Egypt, and indomitable witness to the historical fate of Jews and Christians under Islam-has spent a lifetime unearthing hidden truths.Her nonfiction has challenged prevailing myths. Now, in this monumental work of fiction, she turns to the intimate and epic, portraying the human faces behind the centuries of dhimmitude-a status of legal and spiritual inferiority imposed on non-Muslims-and the slow, devastating collapse of a civilization. Spanning the Cairo of the 19th century through the cataclysms of the World Wars to the final expulsion of Jews from Egypt in the 1950s, the trilogy