title: The Sword Of Islam
author: Raphael Sabatini
description: Rafael Sabatini was born to an English mother and Italian father, both well-known opera singers. At seventeen Sabatini moved to England, where, after a brief stint in the business world, he started to write. His major breakthrough came with Scaramouche, which became an international bestseller and was followed by the equally successful Captain Blood. All his earlier books were then rushed into reprint. Many of his novels were subsequently adapted into classic films which appealed to both a male and female market with their drama, romance and action, set against a variety of historical settings. 'One wonders if there is another storyteller so adroit at filling his pages with intrigue and counter-intrigue, with danger threaded with romance, with a background of lavish colour, of silks and velvets, of swords and jewels' - Daily Telegraph
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  # THE SWORD OF ISLAM
  
  
  ### Rafael Sabatini
  
  
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  ### I
  
  
  Ordinarily Dragut Reis — who was dubbed by the Faithful "The Drawn
  
  
  Sword of Islam" — loved Christians as the fox loves geese. But in that
  
  
  summer of 1550 his feelings acquired a far deeper malignancy; they
  
  
  developed into a direct and personal hatred that for intensity was
  
  
  second only to the hatred which the Christi