It was published on Jand quickly became a great success, with around fifty thousand copies sold that same day. Abén Humeya : leader of the Moorish revolt of the Alpujarras. The Hand of Fatima is the second work of the Spanish writer and lawyer Ildefonso Falcones.Francisco and Inés: sons of Hernando and Fátima.Hamid: old Alfaquí teacher, considered by Hernando the father he never had.

Brahim: antagonist of the play, stepfather of Hernando and husband of Aisha.

Aisha: mother of Hernando and wife of Brahim.

Fatima: young Moorish woman with big black eyes, Hernando's wife.

Hernando: Protagonist of the work, a Moorish muleteer who fights to restore dignity to his people.

From this moment on, Hernando will run various risks and will use all his strength to ensure that his culture and religion regain the dignity and status they deserve. At the end of the war with the defeat of the Moorish side, Hernando was forced to live in Córdoba where it will face numerous difficulties derived from its Moorish condition. During the insurrection, he met the brutality and cruelty of both sides, but he also found the love of his life in Fatima, a young Moorish woman whom he saved from certain death. Hernando saw the war as an opportunity to demonstrate his loyalty to his people. Hernando is the son of a Moorish woman, Aisha, who was raped by a priest, which gave rise to his nickname 'the Nazarene.' Throughout his childhood Hernando was rejected both by his people, due to his bastard and Christian origin, and by Christians, who distrust him because of the culture and customs in which he had been raised.

Īmong the rebels is a 14-year-old Moorish youth named Hernando. At that moment an unequal war begins that ends with the defeat of the Moors, who are forced to hide throughout the kingdom of Castile. In the powerful Granada of the second half of the 16th century (1568), specifically in the valleys and mountains of the Alpujarras, the Moors, fed up with the injustices and humiliations to which their people were being subjected, rise up and confront the Christians.

Ildefonso falcones the hand of fatima