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Also by G. Willow Wilson

nonfiction

The Butterfly Mosque

graphic novels

Cairo

Air, Volumes 1–4

Vixen: Return of the Lion

For my daughter Maryam, born in the Arab Spring

The devotee recognizes in every divine Name the totality of Names.

-Muhammad ibn Arabi, Fusus al-Hikam

If the imagination of the dervish produced the incidents of these stories, his judgment brought them to the resemblance of truth, and his images are taken from things that are real.

-Fran?ois Petis de la Croix, Les Mille et Un Jours

(The Thousand and One Days)

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