9. "The Book of Granada," from Leo Africanus: By Amin Ma'alouf, with a preface by Peter Sluglett, Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Utah I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road. My country is the caravan. My life the most unexpected of voyages. Click here for full text Get Adobe Acrobat Reader here