Kamal S. Salibi (1929–2011)

I first found out about this book when I finished reading Steve Berry's " The Alexandria Link ". In the author's notes he mentioned this as the main work where he got his main idea of the novel.
And since I take my history fiction seriously and not just after the action but mostly the historic facts, I started looking for this book, and I found it after some searching.
I thought the main idea about the promised land of the Jews not being in Palestine but to the south very interesting, but as I read through the book, the author is trying to prove that every biblical story from Adam and Eve to the flood of Noah and so on can be traced back to western Arabia, and the only proof he has is some resemblance in the names of some of the places in western Arabia.
I thought the main idea was interesting and could alone stir a lot of debate but I think the author has stretched it too far.… (altro)