Forgotten faces

The book deals with 20 characters who may have no connection, except that all of them may be forgotten or unknown. Among them is Beh Afarid bin Ferdinan, who led a religious and political movement against the Abbasid Caliphate in Persia, based on a mixture of Islamic and Zoroastrian ideas. And the Turkish traveler Evliya Celebi, who wrote imaginative and legendary narratives about the Ottoman Sult...