✵ featured ~ ❝Once upon a time in Baghdad, a common girl teaches the Khalifa of the kingdom why a king needs a queen.❞ ✵ Started: June 5, 2021. Completed: March 30, 2022. ✵ cover by @xniftykayx featured on wattpad historical fiction, undiscovered, and dangerous love profiles. Highest ranking #1 in historical fiction.

❝ Let it go, qalbi. Even love must not touch what was born to wander.❞ Copyright Notice Title: Khākestar: some stories are written twice Author: Tabna Usman © Tabna Usman. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, distributed, published, transmitted, or adapted in any form without the prior written permission of the author, except for brief quotations used in reviews, criticism, scholarship, or other non-commercial purposes permitted under applicable copyright law. For permission requests, please contact the author. Disclaimer This is a work of fiction. The characters, events, relationships, political circumstances, and settings are products of the author's imagination. Although the story draws inspiration from historical, cultural, linguistic, and geographical elements, it is not intended to be an accurate representation of any specific religion, community, culture, historical period, or real-life individual. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or deceased, or to actual events beyond broadly referenced historical or geographical elements is coincidental. The beliefs, actions, words, and interpretations of individual characters are fictional and do not represent or endorse any particular religious or cultural belief system. The fictionalized depictions of cities, societies, traditions, and political structures should not be taken as factual accounts of the cultures or places that inspired them.

completed ❝My love will drown you to the depths of the sea.❞ Furat bin Kiyan, the fleet admiral of Al Andalus, is a spy and a rebel on a mission to kill the caliph of Cordoba and claim the throne for himself. But finds himself in trouble at the hands of Rahaf bint Motassem, the caliph's sister. ★ started: april 4, 2023. completed: september 5, 2026.

WINNER OF READERS CHOICE AWARDS 2020 (Historical Fiction) Stone hearts. Silver to gold. And the fierce need to prove oneself. [THIS STORY IS PENDING MAJOR EDITS TO CHARACTERS AND PLOTS]. Sequel: Silver Skies Highest ranks: #1 in Arabia || #3 in History || #51 in Assassin || #90 in Spiritual

*SEQUAL TO GOLDEN STORMS* The great gates of Tridari have closed behind Falaq and Hudayfa. Secrets hide in the shadows and relationships are built and broken throughout the Palace' catacombs. What awaits will test the young warrior's resolve and the assassin's loyalties.

ARAB HERITAGE MONTH PICKS 2026 Prince of Persia meets The Wrath and the Dawn in this epic retelling of the life of the Abbasid Queen Al-Khayzuran. Arabia - Circa 764. Al-Khayzuran's life changes forever when she is kidnapped from her home and sold to a caravan returning from Hajj. An unlikely and altogether fateful series of events leads her face to face with the gates of the capital, a mysterious desert spirit, and a young prince on the verge of rising to the seat of Caliph. Thrust into a world of deception, royalty, intrigue and war, Khayzuran must learn everything she can as fast as she can, or leave her fate in the hands of her enemies.

WINNER - EC AWARDS HISTORICAL FICTION SECOND PLACE - KOHINOOR AWARDS HISTORICAL FICTION For centuries, the Arab tribes occupying the windswept plains of Arabia have known only bickering and conflict; they have clung to their traditions and gods for time immemorial. However, this is all about to change with the advent of one man to the city of Yathrib. The Prophet's camel kicks up clods of sand that will send ripples through time to change the course of history. And at the center of it all is Hanthalah ibn Ka'b - a simple yet mischievous merchant's son from the Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe that finds himself embroiled in the rising political entity of Islam. #grandcafecommunity #thewinnerawards2020 #twilightawards2020