The Judgement of the Lion

by William Branford. A one-act play which deals with the emperor of Ethiopia, Najashi, who gives refuge to some of Mohammed's followers who had fled the corruption of the Quraish (the sharifs who were resisting the message from Mohammed). Published by the Arabic Study Circle, Durban, 1958. The original in the National Literary Museum in Grahamstown.

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