In 1195 Cordoba, the exiled philosopher Ibn Rushd (Averroes) takes in an orphaned girl named Dunia who is secretly a jinn princess, fathers a multitude of earlobe-less children with her during his internal exile, and abandons her and the children (nicknamed the Duniazat) when he is recalled to court after the Almohad victory at Alarcos; the story then traces how her descendants, ignorant of their supernatural origin, spread across the world over the following centuries.
Books mentioned in The Duniazat (3)
A Thousand and One Nights: “There was a Persian book called "Hazar Afsaneh," or "One Thousand Stories," which had been translated into Arabic... Ibn Rushd had not seen the book, but several of its stories had been told to him at court. The story of the fisherman and the jinni appealed to him...”
The Incoherence of the Philosophers by Al-Ghazali: “A hundred years earlier, Ghazali had written a book called "The Incoherence of the Philosophers," in which he attacked Greeks like Aristotle, the Neoplatonists, and their allies, Ibn Rushd's great precursors Ibn Sina and al-Farabi.”
The Incoherence of the Incoherence by Ibn Rushd: “He had written his own book, "The Incoherence of the Incoherence," replying to Ghazali across a hundred years and thousands of miles, but in spite of its snappy title it had not diminished the dead Persian's influence.”