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The Magic Necklace of Al-Andalus is a historical fantasy novel. The historical part occurs, with one Roman digression, in Spain during the nearly 800 years of the Arab occurrence from their first tidal-wave invasion in 711 with their expulsion in 1492. The Arab tide receded southward but then remained largely in place for a number of centuries. Al-Andalus refers to these Arab-ruled areas where the Arabs, Muslims, tolerated and often even welcomed Christians and Jews. Religion is important in the introduction of the four main personas, Cass, Thea, and Alan, teenagers in Philadelphia in 1951, and Sebastian, the young officer of the Queen's Shield in Spain in 1491. Religion is also one of the substances in the connections of secondary personas, some of whom are historical. The Magic Necklace and its resident sprite, the Djini Maeden, are the fantasy part of the novel. They spirit the personas off to key times and places of Al-Andalus. As they discover the dynamics of the Necklace and Maeden, the main characters recognize that they have been chosen. These are on a perilous quest affecting themselves while others.