Thrones Built on Chains: Ten Stories of Slaves, Rebels, and Queens - Love, War, and Power in the Arab World, (Paperback)

<p><b>A slave woman who saved Egypt - then was beaten to death with wooden clogs. Warriors who fought for forty years over a slaughtered camel. An empire built by stolen children who became sultans.</b></p><p><b>These are not legends. They happened.</b></p><p>&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;</p><p><b>THRONES BUILT ON CHAINS</b> brings ten extraordinary true stories from the Arab and Islamic world to English readers for the first time - told with the drama, the moral complexity, and the human weight they deserve.</p><p>These stories have shaped Arab culture for over a millennium. They are taught in schools, recited at dinner tables, debated by scholars, and woven into the memory of an entire civilization. In the Arab world, everyone knows Antara's name. Everyone knows what happened at Karbala. Everyone knows who the Mamluks were.</p><p>In English, almost no one does.</p><p>This book changes that.</p><p>&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;</p><p>From the blood-soaked battlefields of early Islam to the slave markets of medieval Cairo, from the courts of Baghdad to the deserts of pre-Islamic Arabia, these ten stories span fifteen centuries of a civilization that the Western world rarely encounters on its own terms.</p><p><b>You will meet Antarah ibn Shaddad - the enslaved warrior-poet who fought his way to freedom and found that freedom wasn't enough. Husayn ibn Ali, who said no to a caliph and rode toward Karbala knowing what was waiting. Shajar al-Durr, who ran a war from behind a curtain while her husband's body cooled on a boat heading down the Nile - and who ruled Egypt for eighty days before the world decided a woman couldn't. Ziryab, the musician exiled from Baghdad for being too talented, who arrived in Córdoba and accidentally transformed European culture. And the Mamluks - boys stolen from their villages on the Eurasian steppe, bought and remade into soldiers, who stopped the Mongols when no one else could and built an empire that lasted five hundred years.</b></p><p>Each story is self-contained. Each one is true. Each one asks something of you that comfortable history rarely does: to sit with people who were neither heroes nor villains, who made choices in circumstances most of us will never face, and whose decisions still echo in the world we live in today.</p><p>&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;#9473;&amp;a</p>

• Thrones Built on Chains: Ten Stories of Slaves, Rebels, and Queens - Love, War, and Power in the Arab World, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798248958610
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-02-19
• Page Count: 128