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Title: What does this tell us
Review: Obviously there is sopposed to be a message here. Leo Africanus, geographer, Muslim, married to a Jewish convert, himself a Muslim convert, victim of priacy, vegabond, scholar, man of mystery, a polymath able to move between the cultures of Europe and North Africa during the time of the reformation and the rennaisance. What can one make of this. Is this sopposed to teach us tolerance? What is does teach us is that there apparently was more connection between cultures in the 16th century then we are allowed to know about today. Today we are todlt hat 'evil' barborous 'crusading' Europe was busy colonizng and enslaving the world, which consisted of either African slaves or Muslim victims. Perhaps this book sheds light on how scholarship has twisted European history so much, so that it no longer resmbles what it was in the least bit. Here, throught the life story of one man, we see the actual interplay of culture, diversity and religion in the 16th century.Seth J. Frantzman
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