Title: The desert of souls
Description: When a stranger begs the vizier of ninth-century Baghdad to protect a bejeweled tablet and is murdered before he can explain, the scholar Dabir pursues suspicions that the subsequently stolen tablet may unlock secrets to the lost city of Ubar.
Subjects: History, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, historical, Iran, fiction, Africa, fiction, Extinct cities, Fiction, fantasy, general
Places: Iran
Time periods: 640-1500