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While ostensibly about the diplomatic and military drama encircling the caliphate, the Byzantine Empire, & Charlemagne's kingdom (al-Rashid sent Charlemagne a white elephant, which the king took as his beloved pet), the book is much more preoccupied with the standard Orientalist tropes of sex and violence