concluded that "Kurban Said" (whose real life identity she does not attempt to determine) deliberately copied passages from Robakidze's earlier novel. Bibliography Under pen name of Essad BeyBlood and Oil in the Orient (1930; reissued by Aran Press in English, 1997 (withdrawn from the market by the publisher); reissued by Maurer in English, 2008, , in German, 2008, )Twelve Secrets of the Caucasus (1930; reissued by Maurer in English, 2008, , in German, 2008, 978-3-929345-33-9)Stalin: The Career of a Fanatic (1931)The Caucasus (1932), only in German, "Der Kaukasus".Mohammed (1932), many editions available worldwide, except in EnglishWhite Russia: People Without a Homeland (1932) (not translated into English).OGPU: The Plot Against the World (1932)Liquid Gold (1933), (not translated into English)Russia at the Crossroads (1933), (not translated into English).Love and Petroleum (1934), novella, only in Polish (not translated into English; published originally in a pulp magazine in Poland. Translated into German and published by Maurer, 2008, 978-3-929345-35-3, together with "Manuela").Manuela (1934), novella, only in Polish (not translated into English; published originally in a pulp magazine in Poland. Translated into German and published by Maurer, 2008, 978-3-929345-35-3, together with "Love and Petroleum").Nicholas II: The Prisoner in Purple (1935; reissued by Maurer in German, 2011, )Lenin (1935), Italian onlyReza Shah (1936)Allah is Great: The Decline and Rise of the Islamic World (1936) (with Wolfgang von Weisl) about the ascendancy of Saudi Arabian king Ibn Saud (1936) (not translated into English).End of Bolshevism (1936), which appeared only in Italian as "Giustizia Rossa" (Red Justice). Under pen name of Kurban Said As discussed above, there is a dispute over whether or not Lev Nussimbaum is the core author behind works written under the pseudonym Kurban Said. The works written under this name include the following:Ali and Nino (1937, reissued by Anchor, 2000, , as "Ali and Nino: A Love Story").Girl from the Golden Horn (1938, reissued by Overlook Press, 2001, )The Man Who Knew Nothing About Love (Unpublished, but advertised in the back pages of Annemarie Selinko's novel I Was an Ugly Girl, Vienna: Kirschner, 1937, the same year that "Ali and Nino" was published.) References Tom Reiss,The Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught Between East and West, Chatto & Windus, 2005 Notes External links Essad Bey Truth Alert "Biography: The Lives of Two Writers: Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli and Lev Nussimbaum / Essad Bey," in Azerbaijan International, Vol. 15:2-4 (2011), pp. 38–51. "Jewish Girl was Prototype