The Missing Events from the Biography of the Magi

Description

Just as Homer’s Odyssey alludes to his great epic, the Iliad, these missing events allude to Ibrahim al-Koni’s great epic, “The Magi.” All its heroes are characters already present in the novel “The Magi,” and its events seem to be a continuation of events found in the original novel. However, here, they illuminate new dimensions for understanding those characters and events, revealing different spiritual realms through their details. In these narrative chants, al-Koni resorts to poetic melodies, musical compositions, evocative metaphors, and symbols and allusions that oscillate between the visible and the hidden worlds. Through them, enchanting worlds are revealed to us, where the world of humans and jinn, and the world of animals, intertwine with sacred signs and symbols. With them, mythical times and places unfold, unparalleled, for they are the spirit of the desert and its world, which stands as a threshold between the world of the senses and the world of the unseen. With these missing details from the Magi’s life, the reader completes their exploration of those magnificent existential and spiritual realms they encountered in the epic “The Magi,” where new secrets are revealed, and profound aspects of these characters are unveiled through their poetic dreams, longings, yearnings, and eternal yearning for the absolute. Then there is the bloody trail of their footprints on their poignant existential journey to reach the promised paradise. With these enchanting narrative and poetic compositions, the essence of the epic “The Magi” and its “lost details” is formed, establishing its artistic foundation as one of the immortal works of literature.