This novel takes the reader back to a time long before our modern era, to the Fatimid period, over a thousand years ago. Through this journey through time, it reveals the wonders of history and the peculiarities of the world around us. The present meets the past, and the events of the novel unfold between the ruler under the will of God, his dangerous sister St. Queen, the brilliant scholar Hassan ibn al-Haytham, the wise narrator Muttibin Khalf al-Sahmi, and many others who lived during this glorious period of history, filled with both joy and sorrow, as well as fascinating details. This literary work can be described as a “novel of knowledge.” It can also be seen as a glimpse of the present through the eyes of the past, and an understanding of the past based on insight into the current reality. In this novel, time is cyclical; it always returns to its starting point. After all, there is no starting point, nor an end point, in a cycle.