“There is a very great power in choosing joy… integral to the quest for justice,” Safi said. We meet Rahma along with a band of very merry misfits, and over the course of approximately 350 pages Safi weaves a tale rich in history, delight, and misadventures. The book is a breathtaking, tightly-plotted reimagining of the Robin Hood story wherein in Rahma Al-Hud is a young Muslim girl fighting in the Holy Land during the Third Crusade.
Safi is the author of multiple books, including the March 2022 installment in the Remixed Classics series, Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix. “He’s not the strongest, not the fastest, not the best at anything except outwitting people,” Safi said, “and willing to always think in the moment about how to solve the problem.”
And so it falls to the merry band of misfits to use every scrap of cunning and wit (and not a small amount of thievery) to foil the usurper queen and perhaps finally restore peace to the land.Īminah Mae Safi loves the Robin Hood tale because of how “chaotic good” the original main character is. The teens all find solace, purpose and camaraderie-as well as a healthy bit of mischief-in each other’s company.īut their travels soon bring them into the orbit of Queen Isabella herself, whose plans to re-seize power in Jerusalem would only guarantee further war and strife in the Holy Land for years to come. On their journey to Jerusalem, Rahma and Zeena come across a motley collection of fellow travelers-including a kind-hearted Mongolian warrior, an eccentric Andalusian scientist, a frustratingly handsome spy with a connection to Rahma’s childhood, and an unfortunate English chaplain abandoned behind enemy lines. And so, Rahma has no choice but to take on one final mission with her sister. Rahma al-Hud loyally followed her elder sister Zeena into the war over the Holy Land, but now that the Faranji invaders have gotten reinforcements from Richard the Lionheart, all she wants to do is get herself and her sister home alive.īut Zeena, a soldier of honor at heart, refuses to give up the fight while Jerusalem remains in danger of falling back into the hands of the false Queen Isabella. Jerusalem, 1192. The Third Crusade rages on. Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix by Aminah Mae Safi was released on March 1, 2022.
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