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Ala al-Din Abu al-Shamat
Anonymous · 1885 · Adventure, Fantasy
A merchant’s hidden son rises through peril, love, betrayal, courtly disguise, false accusation, captivity, return and recognition. This illustrated LitLab edition follows Ala al-Din Abu al-Shamat through Cairo, Baghdad, sea roads and foreign courts with character profiles, world maps, relationship plates, recap boards, story medallions and luminous scenes in the Motor 01 tradition.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 45 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
World Plate 01Geographic or spatial context for the tale.
World Plate 03Geographic or spatial context for the tale.
Connections Plate 01Relationships among characters, places, objects and events.
Cast Sheet 01 — Cairo Merchant House
Cast Sheet 02 — Road to Baghdad
Cast Sheet 03 — The Caliph in Disguise
Scene 01
Scene 03
This edition
- Title
- Ala al-Din Abu al-Shamat
- Author
- Anonymous
- First published
- 1885
- Illustrated plates
- 91 original artworks · 45 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 7 · about 26,098 words
- Reading time
- 1 h 44 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- September 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #53254
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