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    About the book: year / History is written by the winners. But I’m more interested in the opinion of those who were “squeezed out of the frame” by the winners. Therefore, the novel is ahistorical in places. The chroniclers prepared a different fate for Amr ibn al-As than in the novel: losing in the rebellion, saving his life at the cost of humiliatingly exposing his buttocks to the will of the winner, a long life in shame and death in his bed. A strange fate for a man, who went out to Byzantium with 2,500 soldiers, saved his homeland from famine, and Muslims from physical extinction, who gave Islam an impetus throughout North Africa, and then further - to Sicily and Spain, who dared to refuse the caliph and decisively stood up to protect the conquered peoples from robbery. Such people do not die a natural death and, moreover, do not expose their buttocks.