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THE OTHER EXILE: The Remarkable Story of Fernão Lopes, the Island of St Helena and a Paradise Lost
A gripping narrative of empire, exile, solitude and faith
Long before Napoleon's imprisonment on Saint Helena Island, in the Portuguese Age of Exploration, a remarkable man lived there alone.
Soldier Fernão Lopes was left in charge of a Portuguese garrison in Goa by Afonso de Albuquerque, but converted to Islam and sided with a local general in a rebellion against Portuguese rule. When Albuquerque returned to reclaim the fort, he meted out terrible punishment to Lopes. Tortured and disfigured, Lopes made a
momentous decision on his way back to Portugal, choosing voluntary exile on Saint Helena island, where he lived in almost complete solitude for decades.
But this is more than the adventurous tale of a Portuguese Robinson Crusoe': Lopes' life was wrecked by the Portuguese Empire, but he was then sought out by a King and a Pope, and made a remarkable choice. As Abdul Rahman Azzam delves into the story of Fernão Lopes and his time, he also looks at the history and mystique of Saint Helena itself 1,200 miles west of Angola and 1,800 miles east of Brazil, a remote, rocky island in a seemingly endless ocean. He tracks the journeys of Fernão Lopes across the seas his initial journey as a soldier to Goa, the darker journey to Saint Helena as a humiliated, disfigured man, then back to Europe to meet with the most powerful men of his time but also looks at the spiritual journey of the soul, at a man seeking his own solitude and what that means in our noisy, crowded times.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr Abdul Rahman Azzam has a PhD in history from Oxford. He is the author of RUMI AND THE KINGDOM OF JOY (Muhammadi Trust 2000) and in 2007 Longman published his critically-acclaimed biography, SALADIN, which was a bestseller in Arabic and was selected in Jordan as one of the Top 100 Books on Islam.
Born in Egypt, Abdul Rahman is currently based in Qatar where he works as an advisor to the Royal family. While completing THE OTHER EXILE, he has begun research on another, BEYOND THE OCEAN OF FOGS: Abu Bakkari and the Quest to Discover the Americas.
Soldier Fernão Lopes was left in charge of a Portuguese garrison in Goa by Afonso de Albuquerque, but converted to Islam and sided with a local general in a rebellion against Portuguese rule. When Albuquerque returned to reclaim the fort, he meted out terrible punishment to Lopes. Tortured and disfigured, Lopes made a
momentous decision on his way back to Portugal, choosing voluntary exile on Saint Helena island, where he lived in almost complete solitude for decades.
But this is more than the adventurous tale of a Portuguese Robinson Crusoe': Lopes' life was wrecked by the Portuguese Empire, but he was then sought out by a King and a Pope, and made a remarkable choice. As Abdul Rahman Azzam delves into the story of Fernão Lopes and his time, he also looks at the history and mystique of Saint Helena itself 1,200 miles west of Angola and 1,800 miles east of Brazil, a remote, rocky island in a seemingly endless ocean. He tracks the journeys of Fernão Lopes across the seas his initial journey as a soldier to Goa, the darker journey to Saint Helena as a humiliated, disfigured man, then back to Europe to meet with the most powerful men of his time but also looks at the spiritual journey of the soul, at a man seeking his own solitude and what that means in our noisy, crowded times.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr Abdul Rahman Azzam has a PhD in history from Oxford. He is the author of RUMI AND THE KINGDOM OF JOY (Muhammadi Trust 2000) and in 2007 Longman published his critically-acclaimed biography, SALADIN, which was a bestseller in Arabic and was selected in Jordan as one of the Top 100 Books on Islam.
Born in Egypt, Abdul Rahman is currently based in Qatar where he works as an advisor to the Royal family. While completing THE OTHER EXILE, he has begun research on another, BEYOND THE OCEAN OF FOGS: Abu Bakkari and the Quest to Discover the Americas.
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Published 2023-05-11 by Icon Books |