Has anyone read Zulfikar Ghose?

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A book about him landed on my desk recently and he seems like an intriguing author:

http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1724

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 6 May 2006 23:06 (twenty years ago)

I haven't read him. But Zulfikar was the name of Hannibal's father.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 7 May 2006 00:19 (twenty years ago)

What? Hannibal's father was -- oh, either Hamilcar or Hasdrubal.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 7 May 2006 06:20 (twenty years ago)

Assuming that Hannibal really existed.

― Doktor Faustus (noodle vague), Sunday, 7 May 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Well now I'll have to go look it up. Sorry to derail the thread.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 7 May 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's going to get much more traffic anyway. Maybe I will just read something by him, so I can become the like Zulfikhar Ghose expert. I'm in a rare mood for novel reading right now.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 7 May 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

OK. The father was Hamilcar Barca. Hannibal's kid brother was Hasdrubal Barca.

I don't know why the name Zulfikar Barca is so firmly lodged in my head, because none of the famous Barcids seem to have carried that name. Perhaps it is just the euphony of it that sank its barbs into me.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 7 May 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Is there, uh, doubt that Hannibal existed?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 7 May 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I think there are some fringe historians who have tried to cast doubt on Hannibal's existence as an actual historical person, claiming that he's a kind of folk hero figure. I was just being silly.

― Doktor Faustus (noodle vague), Monday, 8 May 2006 08:53 (twenty years ago)

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