But how many people know that historians attribute to him one of the most mysterious manuscripts of the Middle Ages - the so-called “Samarkand Manuscript”. Is this really so? There are many versions... however, under the pen of Amin Maalouf, the story of the creation of the “Samarkand Manuscript” LITERALLY COME TO LIFE... and with it the lush, bright and dangerous 12th century itself in Central Asia, an era of unprecedented flowering of sciences and arts, sophisticated conspiracies and religious fanaticism...< /p>