Summary

Chapters 136 to 123 tell of one of the most Beautiful examples of medieval Islamic art—a pulpit from the Crusades era called the minbar of Saladin that stood in the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem but was burned down by an Australian who claimed insanity. Over the years, many visitors to Jerusalem who experience a sort of psychotic episode in which they believe they are a Biblical figure have been treated at a mental hospital on the site of a Palestinian village called Deir Yassin where the Israeli massacre of over one hundred Palestinians helped set off the 1948 Nakba. The minbar of Saladin took thirty-seven years to be reconstructed by a global team of Muslim designers and craftsmen.

According to Chapters 122 to 115, though Rami grew up hating Germany and vowing never to travel there, he and Bassam did a tour of the country on a speaker...