Seventeen Dinars
The Caliph Who Was Given an Empire and Chose to Walk Away From ItBy Narin Hikma
Length8h 15m
About this audiobook
There is a kind of power you only really understand by watching somebody refuse it.
In 717 CE, a provincial administrator discovered he was master of the world's largest empire. Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz asked to be released. Refused, he spent two years and five months governing from the Atlantic to India—and spent almost all of it giving the wealth back: the horses, the gold, and the palace fortunes.
This narrative biography brings to life a leader who chose absolute integrity over power.
• Watch what living with one unyielding rule costs those nearest it
• Recognize the small, unheroic refusals that define a character
• See how quickly reform dies when the one enforcing it is gone
This is a book for anyone who has wondered whether integrity survives contact with real power.
Almost nobody is handed an empire. Everybody is handed a Tuesday.
Start with the girl in the dark room, and the milk.
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 15, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Epigraph
3Prologue
41. The Servant's Confession
52. A Grandson of Two Caliphs
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63. The Governor of Medina
74. The Wedding Gold
85. The Damascus Years
96. The Dying Caliph's Whisper
107. The Crown He Didn't Want
118. Emptying the Palace
129. The Ultimatum to Fatima
1310. The Treasury Returns to Medina
1411. Tearing Down the Old Network
1512. The Tax of the Conquered
1613. A Judge for Every People
1714. The Letter to Every Province
1815. The Children's Tattered Clothes
1916. The Widows Before the Sons
2017. Enemies Among His Own Blood
2118. Twenty Days of Poison
2219. Seventeen Dinars
2320. What Outlived Him
24Epilogue
2521. Author's Note
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