59 - El Asesinato Del Calígrafo de Bagdad Pt. 2 - José Vicente Alfaro
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What is the context of 'El Asesinato Del Calígrafo de Bagdad'?
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We start with this episode of Bibliotequeando, as always, at Bibliotequeando on the networks. This is your host, Ricardo Lugo. This is the second part of the summary of the book, The Murder of the Caligrapher of Baghdad. If you have not heard the first part yet, it is the previous episode. I recommend that you start there so that you grab the context and the story of this book and finish with this second part, that believe me, you will not regret it, you will love how the story ends. So we start with the fourth part of this book where Teobaldo and Fadila keep trying to investigate but without much success. That case, that argument that if Fan is the culprit, it seems like a dead end, there is not much there.
And they begin to enter in panic mode because the execution date of his father, in the case of Fadila, is already approaching. Also, This appeal to the caliph is not easy to get an appointment, it usually took six months to be able to present himself to the caliph. This audience was very similar to the European courts of the medieval era, that the king or queen listened to the plebeians, their different financial arguments, land, legal, etc. and the king dictated the law. Something like what the caliph did, but only once a week and therefore the waiting list was very long. But Suleiman, is in charge of this list and Suleiman has an extremely corrupt farm in the whole city, therefore Fadila spent a little money under the table and Suleiman moved the list a few days before the date of execution.
Fadila tells this to Theo and tells him that I think you have to go to the audience and speak on behalf of us because I am a woman, my word is not worth so much to him. In that comes a man, suddenly, and Teo and Fadila arrive and he tells them that that lady, her husband, who is the one who died, hired my services to build a house. And they're like, what house? Yes, he already has a house. This house where you are right now, this is his house. And the contractor says, well, my client had entrusted me with a palace in one of the most exclusive areas of the city. And Fadila is all confused because her husband earned good money being the caligrapher of the house of wisdom, but it is not to have a mansion in the most expensive area of all Baghdad.
So Fadila and Teo go with the contractor to see the house, and it turns out that it is indeed a mansion of rich people, and this did not make sense. He himself said, not even my dad, who has a lot of money, can pay for this. And this leads Teo to the conclusion that all this wealth could not have come from a legal activity, it had to have come from an illicit activity. No one was rich overnight without anyone knowing, not legally at least. So Teobaldo and Fadila go to the Caliph's palace to attend the public hearing with, let's say, this is their main evidence, the fact that the victim had a probably illegitimate wealth. And that is evidence of how little the police had investigated the case correctly.
How can it be that the victim has a mansion that only the Caliph can basically pay for? And no one has investigated that it could be related to the crime.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the context of 'El Asesinato Del Calígrafo de Bagdad'?
0:01–7:58
2
How do Teobaldo and Fadila investigate the murder case?
7:58–12:32
3
What challenges do Fadila and Teobaldo face in their investigation?
12:32–20:02
4
What evidence connects the victim's wealth to the murder?
20:02–29:18
5
How does the caliph react to the murder investigation?
29:18–38:25
6
What shocking truths are revealed about the characters?
38:25–42:24
7
How does the story illustrate the decline of the Islamic Golden Age?
42:24–1:02:36
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